Immigrants digital natives

After reading the article that Mark Prensky wrote some years ago on Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants ( Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants ) I started to think about it.

The digital natives are those who have been born when it was new technology and have grown using television, computers, cell phones, internet, etc and digital immigrants, people who were not born with those privileges and learned to use these technologies over time.

There are substantial differences between groups either neurological and interaction with their environment, as Mark Prensky describes it, but do not think this should be a generational difference, if we see reality and differences between our countries could add a further categorization, immigrants digital natives.

In Peru there are still places where there is no electricity, phone service and even worse, no computers or internet. The youth of these places can not have spent 5000 hours reading books because they have not read even worse, could not have spent 10 000 hours playing video games because they do not know, even it could be 20 000 hours watching television because they have no TV and the only way to have fun would be the care of the cattle they have, if they have it.

There are still people around the world without access to new technologies and one way or another have to adapt to rapid change that is occurring in our society and lessen the digital divide , despite the efforts of some institutions or programs like OLPC , is resistant to change.

Where we consider these digital natives who have no access to these new technologies, they also have to come to learn to use technology to their advantage, we could not call or digital natives and digital immigrants or who do not have the characteristics of any of them, digital natives but immigrants would be the best description of them.

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