The document discusses the differences between digital immigrants and digital natives. Digital immigrants are those born before widespread digital technology who had to adapt to new technologies, while digital natives are those born after digital technologies were established who have grown up with technology. It provides examples of how each group interacts with and uses technology. It also notes some advantages and disadvantages each group faces, such as digital natives' ease with learning new technologies versus digital immigrants' ability to complete tasks without relying solely on digital tools.

1. DIGITAL
Charlene Dinh
Patricia Ang
Wayne Wong
Nation

2. DIGITAL
IMMIGRANTS

3. DIGITAL NATIVES

4. An individual who
was born before the
widespread adoption
of digital technology
DIGITAL
IMMIGRANTS

5. An Individual
who is born
during or after
the introduction
of digital
technologies and
through
interacting with
technology from
an early age.

6. Increasing use of
technology

7. Key Differences
Attitudes towards
technology
How do we feel about
it?

8. Louis CK said that the wonder of
technology is “wasted on the crappiest
generation of spoiled idiots”.

9. KEY DIFFERENCES
Communications
Texting is more common
than calling
Natives often talk to
more than one person

11. KEY DIFFERENCES
Face to Face/Social Bonding
The way we reach out and
connect with others

13. Are you a digital native?
Question 1
You download
A. Music
B. updates
C. illegal software
D. ring tones

14. Are you a digital native?
Question 2
You plan tasks
A. I only plan parties
B. Who plans?
C. Stey by Step
D. Only at Work

15. Are you a digital native?
Question 3
You learn a new software
A. Playing with it
B. Someone showing you
C. By reading the instructions
D. they don't seem to work on
Windows 2000

16. Are you a digital native?
Question 4
You use technology for..
A. everything in life
B. internet dating
C. mainly email and shopping
D. a status symbol

17. Are you a digital native?
Question 5
Your phone.....
A. has a flashing envelope icon
that won't go away
B. is connected to the wall
C. has just about everything on it
D. is with not you right now

18. DIGITAL NATIVE
MOSTLY
A’S AND
B’S

19. Digital Immigrants
Mostly C’s
and D’s

20. DIGITAL NATIVES

22. ADVANTAGES OF BEING A DIGITAL
NATIVE

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24. DISADVANTAGES OF BEING A
DIGITAL NATIVE

25. DISADVANTAGES OF BEING A DIGITAL
NATIVE

26. DIGITAL
IMMIGRANTS

27. -Less dependent on digital
technologies, better
understanding on how to
achieve things without
technologies.
-Can be better at applying
non-digital models to digital
systems because of the
digital immigrants’ richer
and more varied
experience.

28. - Better relate to processes
that contain a mix of manual
and automated tasks, and
have a better feel for the
advantages and
disadvantages of
automating a process.
- Are more detail focused,
and are more likely to take a
craftsman approach to
systems design and building,
associate with intensive
capital or tangled complexity.

29. - Have longer attention
spans. They look for long-term
solutions to their
problems.
- Are better with non-interactive
systems like
large-scale data
manipulation or
transaction, processing, or
systems which require
great reliability or
scalability.

30. -Consistently traditional
values which can be
called as subjective merit.
-Goal oriented which
means better focus during
achieving something
though there are many
challenges, not easily
giving up.

31. -Lower possibility for
mistakes, out of the
single task process.
-Better thinking and
understanding,
especially for theory.

32. DISADVANTAGES

33. -Less understanding about
new technology. They have
difficulty to understand how
to use digital devices and
systems in their everyday
lives.
-Difficulty to understand
modality in user interfaces.
It’s unnatural for them to see
the same control used for
different things in different
contexts.

35. -Low adaption of parallel
processing.
-Relatively low
efficiency.
-Difficulty to associate
with interactive process
or cooperation.
-Institutional structure
and social hierarchies.

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