A Digital Native is born into a digital world and views technology as a natural part of their daily lives. They spend thousands of hours engaged with digital media and perceive it as their friend. As a result of this constant digital immersion, Digital Natives' cognitive thinking patterns and brain structures differ from previous generations. They are accustomed to creating, sharing, and remixing digital content.

1. A Digital Native...
Regards the internet as a basic commodity.
Has grown up always using technology.
“View(s) the media landscape as their
'natural habitat'.”

2. A Digital Native...
May spend 5,000 hours reading, 10,000
hours playing video games,and 20,000
hours watching t.v. Which explains why
students brains have physically changed.
Perceives digital technology as their friend
and rely on it to study, work, play, relax,
and communicate.

3. A Digital Native...
Is born into a digital world where they are
expected to create, consume, remix, and
share material with each other.
“Raised on MTV, video games, e-mail, the
Web, and instant messaging, Digital
Natives have developed cognitive thinking
patterns that differ from previous
generations.”

4. Teaching Digital Natives...
Out digital Immigrant Instructors who speak
an outdated language (that of the pre-
digital age), are struggling to teach a
population that speaks an entirely new
language.

5. A Digital Native learns...
To structure their learning experiences, while
optimizing the creative richness of random
access to knowledge.
By increasingly perceiving text as an aid to
support audio and visual messages.