The only person I can think of that threatens the notion of the digital native and immigrant culture is my Dad's best friend Dave. As he knows how to use a computer and uses new technology with ease daily and she is over 50. He always has the latest phone, camera and video camera. He seems to know alot more about the latest tyes of technology than me or anyone else my age.His job is to fix televisions, computers and cameras. He also works alot for repairing these types of media for John Lewis.
He has no 'accent' and I feel although his age would place him in Prensky's category of 'digital immigrant.' This term I feel is generalised as I do not feel just because you were born in an age of new media that you toally understand it all or are completely fluent in it. Media is always changing and improving and I am not familiar with alot of the latest phones and cameras and I wouldn't know how to use them. Alot of people are alot more familiar with modern technology than me and I am not one of those people who always has the latest up to date technology so maybe in some ways I would be seen as a digital immigrant myself. At the rate that technology is improving does this mean that the next generation will look at us as digital immigrants?
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Quite, Prensky seems to have been very quiet on the issue of 'yesterday's natives being tomorrow's immigrants'.
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