How do you approach the use of new technologies? What are you? A digital native or a digital immigrant? According to professor Marc Prensky "Digital Immigrants, Digital Natives" (2001a, 2001b):
"Digital Natives are used to receiving information really fast. They like to parallel process and multi-task. They prefer their graphics before their text rather than the opposite. They prefer random access (like hypertext). They function best when networked. They thrive on instant gratification and frequent rewards. They prefer games to "serious" work."
In contrast, those not born in the digital world reveal their non-native status through a "Digital Immigrant accent" that manifests itself in a number of ways—printing out a digital document to edit it rather than editing it online, for example (Prensky, 2001a, p. 4).
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