British Journal of Educational Technology Vol 39 No 5 2008 775-786 doi:10.1111/j.1467-8535.2007.00793.x "The picture beginning to emerge from research on young people's relationships with technology is much more complex than the digital native characterisation suggests. While technology is embedded in their lives, young people's use and skills are not uniform.There is no evidence of widespread and universal disaffection, or of a distinctly different learning style the like of which has never been seen before. We may live in a highly technologised world, but it is conceivable that it has become so through evolution, rather than revolution. Young people may do things differently, but there are no grounds to consider them alien to us. Education may be under challenge to change, but it is not clear that it is being rejected."

The key idea here is that there are no clear boundaries between immigrants and natives; the ability to adpat to new technology and treat it as transient is the main difference. By implication, there is an idea that being born in the digital era does not necessarily mean you are able to keep up with technology! Refers to Digital Pioneers....

This is a humourous video that a perception that a digital immigrant is a slave to technology rather than the master of it..

Slides 18, and 26-28 are interesting as they indirectly open up the question of whether true digital natives have to be plugged into digital networks from birth... Talks about a new conceptual age of technology plus brain power... (Connectivism?)