Digital+Natives+and+Digital+Immigrants

==Since 2001, the terms Digital Native and Digital Immigrant have been used to describe the vastly different worlds that our students and their teachers live in. While it has been in research since 2001, it was only in early 2010 that I first heard the terms and my interest was peaked.== =**Digital Natives**= == media type="youtube" key="nnsSUqgkDwU" height="349" width="560"
 * = ===Digital Natives=== ||
 * = ====**Not "afraid" of new technology**==== ||
 * = ====**Function best when "networked"**==== ||
 * = ====**Prefer graphics to print**==== ||
 * = ====**Prefer to multi-task**==== ||
 * = ====**Are used to receiving information really fast**==== ||

Google Search Stories... I haven't made one yet. It IS on my to-do list! If we had more time, I'd be making you do one today!
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 * > ===Digital Immigrant Accents=== ||
 * > =====**Read the manual**===== ||
 * > =====**Print their Email**===== ||
 * > =====**Go anywhere BUT the Internet first for information**===== ||
 * > =====**May call someone to their computer to see a website**===== ||
 * > =====**Has never been on Blogger, Facebook, YouTube, or Flickr**===== ||

 “Digital Immigrant instructors who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital) age, are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language.”  (Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants. Prensky 2001)

With knowledge of these differences, I powered on in my research. I wondered next if Digital Natives themselves became Digital Native teachers with technology, but Lei's reaserch (2009) showed that "many of them lacked the experience or expertise in using Web 2.0 technologies with great potential for classroom application, such as blogging and wikis." Web 2.0? What is that? That was the first time I had heard the expression and of course I had to start searching Web 2.0! Hmmm....