Digital Natives and Immigrants

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants By Marc Prensky
This article presents an interesting view point on the decline of education in the U.S, and how technology may be a contributing factor. It looks at it in a rather positive way however, saying that technology is not a distraction for students, more of a way of life that needs to be adapted to the educational system, and the decline is more to blame on the teachers not understanding technology, therefore leading to poor teaching.
It is and interesting read but but I think flawed from the very start, it was the so called 'digital immigrants' that have developed the technology that 'Natives' use, much the same way that older generations developed guitars that youth movements used in the 60's and 70's to separate them-selves from the norm of society.
I personally don't think it is the idea of 'Digital Immigrants' or 'Digital Natives' that is supposedly affecting education today. It is more than just a persons ability in using technology, it is the politics behind acquiring the funding for the tech to be used at schools, and in terms of the older generation 'not understanding' new software or having 'accents', I think it is just a matter of personal interest, my dad had no interest in iPads or the latest way of listening to music, however there are people the same age as him and older who have all the latest tech and understand it better than I do, and I'm supposedly a "digital native".