Week 8 - Article 4 Criticism

What better way to disagree with the 'digital divide' concept than to go to the main author of it. The main problem that i have with Prensky is that i feel that he stereotypes the two groups too much, he doesn't offer any other opinion but his own and i cant get over how someone who's a 'game designer' could say that 'digital natives' and 'digital immigrants' game differently, but the way he's describing how a young person may game, is similar to himself and if he was using his own theory he therefore wouldn't be a digital immigrant, and so basically shooting himself in the foot. After reading many other articles on the 'digital divide', who use the word 'divide' in other ways, i find myself more and more disengaged with what Prensky's saying. I can accept that at times young people are better at using technology than their parents, but i also know loads of adults who are perfectly fine. Becoming computer literate is a learning curve and anyone, if they have the access can learn the ropes. I have loads of older family members on 'facebook' and they use it more and in the same way as i do. Prensky doesn't think of the individual but thinks of the whole picture, which is wrong because everyone uses technology differently.