Website Four Criticism

This website contains a blog that was written in december 2007 which makes it just over a year old. Unlike the previous websites, this one is fairly up to date and as it is a blog, is updated regularly and allows comments. Like the counter argument in the last website i looked at, The author of this one constantly questions the concepts and defenitions of digital immigrants brought forward by Prensky. He describes Prenskys descriptions of immigrants as 'outdated'. He suggests that 'Surely, we should recognize what digital immigrants bring with them from the old world which is still valuable in the new, rather than simply focus on their lacks and inadequacies'. This implies that Prensky uses the word 'immigrant' in order to draw from all the negative stereotypes and connotations it brings.

This is a very good source of information as most of what is said is incisive to the matter at hand. It also has a picture of the author which makes it clear that he is quite old and in Prenskys eyes would have been seen as a digital immigrant however from using blogs and the content of his post we can see that he is very computer literate. Aswell as his argument, the fact that he himself is using blogs for his academic discussion challenges Prenskys model of a digital immigrant.