What are Digital native and Digital Immigrants

A digital native is an individual who was born after the widespread adoption of digital technology. The term digital native doesn’t refer to a particular generation. Instead, it is a catch all category for children who have grown up using technology like the internet, computers and mobile devices. This exposure to technology in the early years is believed to give digital natives a greater familiarity with and understanding of technology than people who were born before it was widespread.

A digital immigrant is an individual who was born before the widespread adoption of digital technology. The term digital immigrant may also apply to individuals who were born after the spread of digital technology and who were not exposed to it at an early age. Digital immigrants are the opposite of digital natives, who have been interacting with technology from childhood. Digital immigrants are believed to be less quick to pick up new technologies than digital natives. For instance, a digital immigrant may prefer to print out a document to edit it by hand rather that doing onscreen editing.

By reading this note, I came to realized that we are not digital native but digital immigrants. If we are brought up in digital world then we could have greater ideas about ICT. Since I am not the digital native, I don’t have wide range of knowledge about the uses of technology. But in today’s world, people are more exposed to the modern world and their time are more on technology whereby it makes their work easier and fast. It can save the people’s time. We can see in today’s scenario that even small kids are being exposed to the digital world where they are able to familiarize of any technology they are using. They have greater knowledge than us. So we being a future teacher, we can always integrate ICT in classroom teaching so that children are aware of the uses of technology. They can understand the concept clear and the teaching and learning takes place in an effective manner. It’s vital to make our children exposed to digital world because we know the present world where knowing about technology becomes more important in individual’s life.