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Volume 9, Issue 5
1 September 2001
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Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part 1 Available to Purchase

Marc Prensky
Marc Prensky
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2054-1708
Print ISSN: 1074-8121
© MCB UP Limited
2001
On the Horizon (2001) 9 (5): 1–6.
https://doi.org/10.1108/10748120110424816

Part one of this paper highlights how students today think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors, as a result of being surrounded by new technology. The author compares these “digital natives” with the older generation who are learning and adopting new technology naming them “digital immigrants”.

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Technology, Students, Education, Language, Culture
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