Website criticism four

This website is dated October 2001, which immediately suggests it could be out dated as this was 8 years ago. From the first line, it is written in a very descriptive and opinionated manner. The author talks also about students and the relationship between them and technological advancements. “Today’s average college grads have spent less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading, but over 10,000 hours playing video games (not to mention 20,000 hours watching TV).” It doesn’t say where these figures are sourced from, but if these were true, I’m sure they have only grown further since 2001. There are many rhetorical questions throughout, one of which asks what the new wave of students should be called. The answer is Digital Natives, and the site gives detailed descriptions and examples of both Digital Immigrants and Natives. The author’s best description for me is where he says that today’s parents are in the midst of learning a new language which the majority of kids already know. The site is very good at showing how the two struggle to comprehend one another, due to the difference in ‘language that natives and immigrants speak. Due to it being written a while ago now, the site is probably one of the first to talk about Digital Immigrants and Natives.