Week 8 Tasks

Digital Immigration - article 3

This article discusses the issue of education systems and how they have had to make the transition from previous generations who are so called digital immigrants to our new generation of digital natives. Society often focuses on this difference between generations and therefore challenges the educational system to adapt to these new technological conditions. Today's students are regarded as the new learners and are considered to be fundamentally different from generations before in the ways in which they use ICT, and how they learn and solve problems.

The data collected for this article is the two first out of three phases of a qualitative study from a Danish college of social education which uses blended learning. The students in the study, all of whom are women, are seen as semi digital immigrants but have the competency similar to digital natives and display equal learning styles. The study looks into the ways in which "these students cope with the virtual environment and the reasons why they are able to bridge the gap between generations." I believe this study is important as it addresses the issues surrounding the link between age and digital immigration, and also discusses how this affects education systems.