Digital Immigrant or Digital Native?

What are you? 
Using technology in the classroom is something that teachers and students need to get used to.

In class we discussed what the difference was between a digital native and a digital immigrant. In my opinion, a digital native is someone that was taught how to use technology at a very young age. These type of people, grow up using technology on a daily bases and do not know what life is like without technology.




This is a great example of a digital native, it shows how involved technology is in children's life today.








A digital immigrant is a person who has to adapt to these devices as they are introduced to our society. My mother is definitely a digital immigrant, she has no idea how to run any piece of technology, I have to explain to her and show her step-by-step for almost everything. She realized how much of a digital immigrant she was when she went back and got her masters in nurse education, she got her first laptop at the beginning of this program. For her, learning how to put together a powerpoint was one of her biggest struggles. Teachers who are immigrants to technology may have difficulty keeping up with their students' abilities and this may be a problem because the teacher needs to monitor what his/her students are researching on the internet or doing with their phones while in class.