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I don't like the term "digital native" at all, but I have to disagree with your age ranges. We mid-to-late 80s children might have been a little older when comp
by wink 8y ago
I don't like the term "digital native" at all, but I have to disagree with your age ranges. We mid-to-late 80s children might have been a little older when computers were introduced, but it was absolutely a part of growing up - first computers, then mobile phones.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> We mid-to-late 80s children might have been a little older when computers were introduced, but it was absolutely a part of growing up Not really surprised, since (as an early 1970s kid) most of my circle at school had computers by the time “mid-to-late 80s children” were being born.
- cco 8y agoI put that term in quotes because I have similar misgivings but I haven't found another term that really captures what I'm talking about. >it was absolutely a part of growing up - first computers, then mobile phones. You're correct but missing an important difference, it was a _part_ of our coming of age but for people who are on the younger side of millennials it wasn't a "part" of their world, they were literally soaked in it from birth. There is difference between, "I got my first computer at home when I was 10 and then I remember a few years later when we got dial-up and then when I was 15 I got a flip phone." and, "The internet was a given in my home, computers existed everywhere, and I got a phone at 10."