Friday, February 27, 2009

The real digital natives

To start with, most of the ENA students love or accept technology; exactly 95.7%. ENA students don’t use the technology for silly things like looking at friends pictures or looking at their facebook account, 66.7% of our people check out the pictures against 74.4% at CEM and 54.2% of the ENA use it for facebook against 74.4%. That shows how digital immigrants the CEM students are; they don’t really know what to do with the Internet. They get hung up in little useless stuff. On the other hand we use it more for homework. 50% of our usage of the computer is for work and the other half is entertainment. The CEM have the third of their students using it only for entertainment, another proof of our “nativeness”. Their experience in technology is mostly oriented toward entertainment and the ENA is more oriented to research. Also in this survey we see that the ENA students are more critical about information than the CEM showing that we use the technology more wisely than them. Being digital native or immigrant is not a big deal but still, ENA students have proven something here.

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