Week 8 Tasks

Digital Immigration - article 1

This article addresses the place of manual drawing in 21st Century schools where children are more used to creating things via a computer instead of pen and paper. The data discussed in this article is from surveys, questionnaires and structured surveys so to gain a large range of information on the topic. The people questioned vary from professional CAD users to school students to gage opinions across the board. This adds to the articles reliability as their data comes across as accurate and professional.

The article refers back to the work of Prensky and addresses the issues of digital immigrants and natives to see how this affects certain academic topics such as art and drawing. The study reported in this paper and it's concluding argument indicates that the school students questioned in the data apparently appreciate the experience of traditional drawing over the use of computer added drawing. This then goes against Prensky's idea of all young students being digital natives and therefore wanting to use new technology for their educational learning.