Week 9/10- A Person Who Most Threatens the Notion of Native/Immigrant in Digital Culture

The divide between digital immigrants and digital immigrants largely relies on age. If it is as Prensky believed that younger generations born in the digital age are digital natives, and older generation born in the analogue age are digital immigrants then a person that can threaten this notion must be of the older generation but as familiar with technology as a native. Bearing this in mind, I find that my Dad threatens the notion of immigrant/native.

My dad is 52, and is obviously born after the digital age however he is a journalist and is constantly using computers and software in his job. My dad owns an i-pod and regularly uses his mobile phone, and he uses Internet to buy things rather than always using shops. He uses email, and edits most of his stories on the computer rather than printing it out to correct. He may not be at the point of using the Internet on his phone and downloading music/movies but he certainly poses a threat to the divide between immigrants and natives. In my Dad's type of work the technology is ever changing and he has to be the first to know whats, what. So maybe the divide isn't at as prominent as was once thought. There is no denying that there are natives and immigrants however, can immigrants become natives. There are some people who are older and more efficient/ skilled in technology than those who grew up with it.