Digital Immigrants or Tourists

I feel like I have a slightly slipper grasp on ICT's. I know how to use most of them and I feel comfortable learning how to use them but there is always that niggling in the back of my mind if I'm using them "RIGHT"

I think this is what Prensky is refering to when he talks about a digital "accent". While I don't have as thick an accent as some of the examples that he gives I feel likes it's still there.

But is that a good or a bad thing?

I find it slightly scary the amount of information that is put on some of the social media sites, how freely it's given and how personal it can be. Am I out dated that I only have personal conversations in "personal message" form, or am I being smart and protecting myself. I think that those digital natives sometimes can't see the tiger through the digital grass.

Or am I out of date?

Is the new world  completely open and connected one, where information and ideas are becoming more and more accessible to everyone and can be cross pollinated to create new ideas and ways of doing things that could never have existed in a less connected world.

So lets call me a digital tourist. I can come in and try those things that some of the natives know about but have never tried. I can dive into their culture and enjoy everything about it but still have the critical thinking and analytically mind that can judge the experience and take away the positives and negatives.

lets have a go