Q1: Based just on the label "Digital Immigrant", what skills would you imagine such a person having with electronics? |
ability to use the telephone, simple cell phone functions (such as programming phone numbers, but not changing ring-tones, or customizing screens), simple computer functions, such as turning on and off, using a word processing tool for simple typing of documents, and writing or forwarding text emails. They have the ability to surf the web by using a search engine for basic searches. |
Q2: Based solely on the label "Digital Native", what skills would you imagine such a person having with electronics? |
Frequent use of instant messengers and text messaging, customizing feautures on cell phones, email, instant messengers. Use of digital cameras and uploading images or documents to the web. Advanced |
Q3: Describe how the formal education of a "Digital Immigrant" might differ from a "Digital Native." |
There is no formal education differenciation between Digital Immigrants and Natives. I my experience in the corporate training world, it seems that most Digital Natives with only a high school education are far more technically savvy than Digital Immigrants with college and graduate school educations. |
Q4: Describe how you think a 19-year-old college Freshman would prefer to receive their course materials. |
Through email and the web, with some class interaction... but emailing a paper to a professor is preferred over printing it out and bringing it to class. |
Q5: Describe how you think a 19-year-old college Freshman would prefer to collaborate on a group project in a course versus a 60-year-old retiree. |
19-year-old: a few in-person meetings, maybe at the start of the project to assign tasks and then a follow up meeting mid-project. Mostly they would communicate via email for critiques and sharing documents, chat sessions, virtual bulletin boards, and uploading documents to a server if provided by the class. A 60-year-old would probably prefer to meet in person, spend time in the library,in the library |
Q6: Describe how you think a college professor would prefer to generate and present lessons to 19-year-old college freshmen. |
Mixed-mode |
Q7: Can you give an example of when a technology boundary negatively affected your success on a project for work or school? |
Yes, druing the hurricanes when people didn't have power on the coast... we couldn't upload what we needed right away. Good thing the professors were sympathetic! |
Q8: Can you give an example of when you perceived age was a boundary in the success of a project at work or school? |
Yes, it often takes our "older" project managers and instructional designers longer to pick up on new programs, such as |
Q9: What is your age? |
25-34 |
Q10: What is your highest educational degree? |
Undergraduate degree |
Q11: Please suggest topics and/or opinions in any area you feel is relevant to the topics presented in this questionnaire. |
I'm sure you already have read most of his work, but Karl Kapp has great articles out on training differences between the generations... Boomers, X, and Y generations. |