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Josh Clark's List: Digital Immigrant

  • Feb 08, 13

    digital immigrants grew up and developed before the digital age so they have a harder time understanding the digital world

    • those people that have grown up with digital technologies including home computers, the Internet, MP3s and mobile phones. Typically these people are 27 years of age or less and have pretty much always been exposed to these digital technologies vs...
    • those people that grew up before the digital age where items such as home computers, the Internet and mobile phones were either non-existent or not as widely available. The general rule of thumb is that these people are 28 years of age or older. They are those people who adapt with these digital technologies.
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      Someone who was born before the existence of digital technologies and adopted it to some extent later in life.
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       June 15, 2007 Urban Word of the Day 
       
      Someone who grew up before the digital age and is fairly new to the internet
  • Feb 08, 13

    a society born into a culture with an entirely different wy of understanding

    • "digital native," a term coined by U.S. author Marc Prensky in 2001
      • term was established by marc prensky

    • The digital native-immigrant concept describes the generational switchover where people are defined by the technological culture which they're familiar with.
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