Week 8 - Task 3 - website 4

For my fourth website, I found a website which contains an article directly discussing what it means to be a digital native or a digital immigrant.

The website layout made it's usability easy with links to other websites and related articles and topics down the top right hand side. These hyperlinks were also easy to follow and they were relevant to the actual article itself. For example there was a link to an article titled 'Teaching - Connection! Connection! Connection!' which was an article about teachers connecting with their students, and this goes onto discuss forums that help them connect and how teachers must now know what interests their students in order to connect with them such as students using the Internet on a daily basis and watching TV a lot in comparison maybe to their tutors. - This I feel relates well to the gap between digital natives and digital immigrants because this is what the gap is about - digital natives easily understanding and using new technology where as digital immigrants don't and aren't known to use it like digital natives do because they are still trying to adapt to it.

The actual content of the article on the website is again very useful. Without giving too much away, although it is taken from an article originally published in 2001, it is a reliable source and I think you will know why when I publish what the website actually is and what the article is properly called.