This document discusses digital natives and how they communicate differently than previous generations. It defines digital natives as people born into the digital world who are fluent in technology and use it as their primary means of information and interaction. Digital immigrants adopt technology later in life. Key differences are that natives are always online, multitask, prefer visual media over text, and collaborate instinctively. Natives communicate through blogs, social networks and mobile devices. While technology continues to change, natives will drive revolutionary innovation through new ways of enhancing their digital lifestyle.

1. SMOKE SIGNALS OF THE
DIGITAL NATIVES
Who are the Digital Natives and How do They
Communicate with Each Other and the World?

2. THE WORLD IS DIGITAL
 Through the use of the Internet, mobile phones,
and other hand-held devices, people are accessing
and processing information in ways that challenge
the historic business models that have held sway
for decades, and are at the same time raising
fundamental questions about the future of
information dissemination and human interaction.
Or to put it simply, everything you
know has changed!!!

3. THREE UNDENIABLE TRUTHS
 Undeniable Truth #1
 Change is inevitable.
 Undeniable Truth #2
 Who we are as adults, is as a result of the sum of our
childhood experiences, and these experiences, whether we
acknowledge it or not, guide our biases and desires
throughout our entire adult life.
 Undeniable Truth #3
 Most people resist change.

4. WHO ARE THE DIGITAL NATIVES?
 Digital Natives are native speakers of technology,
fluent in the digital language of computers, mobile
phones, video games, and the Internet. Born into
the digital world.
 They increasingly shun traditional media and
cocoon themselves in digital media which becomes
their primary channels for information and remote
human interaction.
 Digital Natives, as a collective, don’t just act
differently, they think differently.

7. WHAT IS THIS?

8. WHO ARE THE DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS?
 Digital immigrants are those people who were not
born into the digital world but have, at some later
point in their lives, either from a professional or
personal perspective, become fascinated by and
adopted many or most aspects of the new digital
technology.
 There must be a 3rd group not identified; the group
of people for whom these Internet-based
technologies have no impact at all, the digital
aliens?

9. DIGITAL NATIVE VS DIGITAL IMMIGRANT
There is much
controversy over this.
How does an age make
you digitally proficient?

10. LIFESTYLE NOT CHOICE
 Being a digital native is a lifestyle not a choice that
you make.
 Digital natives communicate with other digital
natives in ways that they have in common with
each other.
 Necessity being the mother of invention means that
digital natives will create new ways to enhance their
lifestyle.
 Which makes digital natives the drivers of
revolutionary innovation.

11. DIGITAL NATIVES...
 ...are always on-line, multitasking...non-linear access to information
 ...communicate in a grid-like network with disregard to location, distance,
time, and ethnicity...
 …highly networked, interactive and social
 ...prefer to get information from sounds and video than text...
 ...use many different interfaces to communicate...
 ...generate not just absorb content...
 ...collaborate instinctively...
 ....verify information immediately...
 ....thrive on instant gratification and frequent rewards...

14. TALKING TO
DIGITAL NATIVES
 Digital natives use various means to communicate
and receive information, including:
 Blogs, Social Networks, Instant Messaging, RSS Feeds,
Discussion Forums
 Videos, Video Games, Virtual Worlds, Video
Conferencing
 They do this, predominantly, using mobile phones
and computers, via Internet
What tool do you use everyday that is
missing from the list?

16. NATIVES VS IMMIGRANTS
 Digital natives
 Like receiving information quickly from multiple media
sources.
Like parallel processing and multi-tasking.
Like processing pictures, sounds and video before text.
Like random access to hyperlinked multimedia information.
Like to network with others.
Like to learn “just in time”.
 Digital immigrants
Like slow and controlled release of information from limited
sources.
Like singular processing and single or limited tasking.
Like processing text before pictures, sounds and video.
Like to receive information linearly, logically and sequentially.
Like to work independently.
Like to learn “just in case”.

17.  Digital Natives generally have a much better idea of
what the future is bringing than we do. They're already
busy adopting new systems for
 communicating (instant messaging),
 sharing (blogs),
 buying and selling (eBay),
 exchanging (peer-to-peer technology),
 creating (Flash),
 meeting (3D worlds),
 collecting (downloads),
 coordinating (wikis),
 evaluating (reputation systems),
 searching (Google),
 analyzing (SETI),
 reporting (camera phones),
 programming (modding),
 socializing (chat rooms),
 and even learning (Web surfing).
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0512_prensky.html

18. ONE LAST THING
 Fact: Today's digital natives are tomorrows digital
immigrants.
 Hint: Do you really believe that flash drives will be
the predominate way of moving data in 20 years.

19. GOOD ARTICLE
 http://www.newscorp.com/news/news_247.html
 http://www.openeducation.net/2008/07/14/of-digital-
immigrants-power-browsing-and-bouncing-out/
 http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/w
omen/families/article4295414.ece
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_native
 Go to this site to download a good presentation
 http://orenotes.blogspot.com/2008/05/digital-
natives-vs-digital-immigrants.html