Website Criticism 1

This article on the website was written on July 10th 2008, which shows that the content is pretty up to date. Therefore, the reader can be quite reassured that the evidence and argument in the article hasn’t changed significantly. The article is clear and concise when talking about the issues of Digital Native and Digital Immigrant. It gives basic definitions of both of these terms and uses up to date examples that the audience could relate to, such as the use of text language. However the usability of this website is questioned because the article doesn’t really raise many questions against the idea of immigrant and native. It uses statements such as ‘technology has changed the way we think, work and learn’ and while on the most part this is probably true it is generalising for the whole of society. This article takes the stance of techno-determinism and that technology is changing the way our brains think, but it is not mention the idea of socio-determinism and the idea that this technology has been created in order to make our lives easier, rather than us just having to depend on it.

Just because Prenksy has created the idea of digital immigrants and natives doesn't necessarily mean that we have to accept it. People may be named a digital native, but prefer to use books than the internet. This criticise his idea, but there is no mention to this in the journal. Just because you are catergorised in one of these definition, doesn't mean that everybody in society acts the same. T