'Digital Immigration'

The term Digital Native is certainly a new one to me, but after researching it, i have realized how true its definition is in todays society.
To be a Digital Native, it seems, is to simply be of the younger generation of the Westernised culture, where to surf the net, chat online and understand all the lingo of the new technologies of today would be the same as reading new teen magazines and understanding all the lyrics and culture of the 'new' rock and roll music of the 1950's.
Being part of the generation who has grown up with computer games, PC's, mobile phones and many other more recent gadgets, i haven't particularly thought of myself as being technology literate, however, compared to my Nan (for example), who grew up in the generation where new gadgets would probably have been the first television, i am. And it is these such people (the generations who have not been raised and indulged in such digital media from an early age) who are, as the term puts it, Digital Immigrants.
'Digital natives, a term made popular by Marc Prensky, are young people whose use of technology is completely ingrained in their lives -they have grown up always-on and constantly-connected. Unlike those even a little bit older, these Digital Natives didn’t have to learn to “be digital,” they learned in digital the first time around.'


I found my information (and quote) from this website..
http://www.digitalnative.org/#home