Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants

This article goes in depth about what it means to be a “digital native” and a “digital immigrant”. Digital Natives can be explained as the “native speakers” of the digital language of computers, video games, and internet. When explaining Digital Immigrants, they are the older generations that do not know this native tongue of digital language. These immigrants speak a different ‘language’ when it comes to technology. This article also explains that we, as adults, and older generations behind us, will need to be right up there with the kids of our future, in learning the digital ways – especially if we want to become a teacher.

Monkey Wrench, a very successful computer program, was explained in this article as well. Created by a group of professors, this program was made in the hopes of getting young people interested in learning about software. This was an important part of the article, because it showed that although a child may be on a computer, playing games, does not mean that he or she may not be learning anything. This program puts a whole new meaning on putting fun into learning.

I found this article to be very well written, and had almost a humor to it. This is the type of article that I will immediately pass on to others, just to read it for the fun of it.