c) A person known to me who most threatens the notion of native/immigrant in digital culture

I will stick with my previous examples for this one. Going by Prensky's theories, both my Dad's age (48 I think) and my sister's (15) should mean they are at the opposite ends of the digital native/immigrant cycle. Prensky's theory would class my Dad as a digital immigrant, and my sister as a digital native. Yet, my Dad is better with web surfing and understanding, email, and computers in general. The only thing I can think of where he is not as good is texting. So this is a flaw within Prensky's work.

Prensky wrote his Digital immigrants and natives article in 2001, and maybe at this time there was not such an emphasis on people in jobs at the time to learn computer skills and be digitally literate.

Since this time, both my parents have done ICT courses or days, complusorary with their jobs, and I don't think this is uncommon. It seems workplaces are now wanting all employees to be familiar with computers, and be able to do certain things in a digital sense.

Prensky said that todays younger generation are all "native speakers of the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet." He has categorised every young person and older person, and in my instance is wrong. This shows that if you are a digital immigrant, it is not out of the question for you to be a native, maybe you need work to pressure you, or a family who regularly use a computer.

Prensky assumed that computers and suchlike was only utilised in everyday life by young people, and they were the only ones who are natives, but the world and older generations have had to adapt to a "native speaking" culture and the result is people of all ages and lifestyles can be digital natives.