Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants

The article on Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants by Marc Prensky truly speaks to both an older and newer generation. The first generation are the ones that did not grow up with technology as readily available. They found different ways to solve solutions. As they moved closer to the 21^st century they not only had to adapt but they were also getting more involved in technology. They are immigrants in the sense that they are moving to something that is not native to them but they can learn to adapt. The other group of people are the natives they grew up in the tech era. Their time with technology rules most of their day. They also heavily rely on it to solve their issues. I myself would obviously fall in the category of a Digital Native since I have been using tech for as long as I could remember. I have also seen the Digital Immigrant struggle with their accent when their teaching. Last semester I sat through a lecture with a former Manhattan College student that was a computer scientist during the Cold War. He spoke on how when he was coding he would write his code on a piece of paper and send it through a machine. Today we type some commands on a computer and run it. Everyone in the class was simply confused as to how this could possibly be done. At this point we just had no idea on what he was talking about. The idea of having a Digital Native methodology is forcing us to rethink our previous teaching methods. For example using a calculator versus a computer. A calculator is something on the older side while a computer with wolfram alpha has more options. I believe it allows for a more in depth learning experience. One question I have is obviously there is a large gap between The Digital Natives and Immigrants but how will that gap look in the year 2040? Yes technology is going to keep advancing but will be able to adapt to it much better so the line between native and immigrant is blurred. 
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I will be redesigning Thinglink. This has made me think of taking the site and add details to it that would make for an easier experience. Often times a user will get annoyed of random suggestions or pop-ups, they just want to complete their task as quick as possible. Removing suggestions and ratings would provide for a better experience. For the Digital immigrants icons for certain tasks have changed over the years they may not know what three horizontal lines mean. So adding to that could help certain users out. Thinglink already seems like a great platform but it is missing key components to make it even better.