Media Literacy

What do you make of the (divergent) positions of Boyd and Prensky (per our discussion in class and/or per the article above?)  Where do you stand on the “digital native” terminology?

To assume that the youth are native to technology ignores the fact that not all teens are technologically savvy or that they know what to do with the experiences.  I agree with the statement that digital immigrants can support them by helping turn their experience into knowledge.  Together the digital natives and digital immigrants have something the other needs.   It is interesting to see that with the wide spread of social media, false news is on the rise.  So teaching critical-thinking skills to our youth is of upmost important.  To have the ability to discern fact from opinion through various fact-checking techniques is a skill the digital natives would need now more than ever to protect themselves from lies, and manipulations.  The digital era opens doors and puts information at your finger tips, but one should be weary of the falsifications be presented as facts.   It was hilarious hearing the term immigrant and native used with reference to technology for the first time in class.  While trying to understood the culture of technology in terms of first culture and first language, I was able to see parallels in my upbringing to that of my parents.   However, I did not attribute the way I process information differently than my son, to the  technology gap between our generations.  No matter how we process information or use technology, immigrant or native, we both need technology.