Digital Immigration

Digital Immigration is the when people, who did not grow up using technology, adopt it into their lives and have certain tendencies which demonstrate their pre-digital nature of doing things. Marc Prensky has developed the term 'accents' to describe this way of hanging on to the past. Prensky describes this as 'turning to the internet for information second rather than first, or reading the manual for a program rather than assuming that the program itself will teach us to use it'. This is a concern as people teching internet courses are struggling as they are teaching students who have grown up using technology such as computers and the internet and are fluent in it. These students are referred to as 'Digital Natives'. This suggests that digital immigrants possibly know less about the subject they are teaching than the actual students being taught.