This week’s article truly owned mine, as well as some of my other fellow classmates’ eyes to the dominating existence of inequality that surfaces on the internet. I must owe my “wow”, to the definitions brought forth by Prensky as he structured his definition of users on the internet into two categories. He first seeks to label the elder population as handicapped learners, who often result to the internet as a secondary solution as opposed to first. Prensky follows by defining digital natives, as students today that are “native” to the language of continually advancing computers, videos games and the internet. It’s quite relieving to hear the criticism made by other authors, to devalue the pertinent of this dichotomy. I “wonder” how Prensky would respond to the criticism drawn from his ideology of utilizing digital natives and digital immigrants to group the entire populations’ engagement in the web? Further, I’m curious what his main objection would be to the new proposed continuum “visitors” and “residents”.
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