Already knowing that Marc Prensky is a main spokesmen on 'digital immigration', this article at first glance shows me that i can trust what im going to read. However you might then question whether it then might be biased; by the end i find this apparent. Again there's no counter arguments, im starting to think that their aren't any, but there must be.
However this didnt mean that i didn't agree with what Prensky wrote. He took the term 'digital immigrant' and 'digital native' from what i already knew and placed it within our educational system and whilst i was reading the article i felt myself argreeing with his statements 'digital immigrant teachers assume that learners are the same as they've always been, and that the same methods that worked for the teachers when they were students will work for their students now'. Then again whilst i was at school, this may have been the case, because he was writing in 2001, which might suggest that there has been changes and that there's no longer a divide between the 'immigrant' teachers and the 'native' students.
The site was useful, then again it may or may not be out of date, im sure that at the time however that what he was writing about did hold some truths, with many examples running throughout the text, 'monkey wrench' for example.
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