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.