Week 9 - Oldest digital native I know

In the least offensive way possible, I must say that my lecturers are the oldest digital natives I know. It seems that Prensky was accurate in his description of older people, at least when it comes to my own family or friends. There are older people in my family who have jobs that require them to be ‘au fait’ with technology, such as email and powerpoints, but it seems that when it comes to putting these into practice, they look at instructions and go through the longest motions of the programme, whereas, in general, the younger people in my family can simply open the applications and recognise the conventions of technology instantly. My lecturers have, however, been learning and interacting with technology at a degree level and have had to become in-tune technology in order to teach it at a higher level. Whether or not they found this process as easy as just ‘picking it up’ I don’t know