b) When thinking about what difference Prensky's 'digital divide' will make to global access issues across countries and regions i think that it could cause a serious problem when it comes education. In one of the earlier blogs i discussed China and its education system that came into place in the 1960's (http://hannahbellv.blogspot.com/2009/03/china-distance-learning.html) which has proven to be rather successful. However, once again, if you take Prensky's generalised view of the two, 'digital natives' and 'digital immigrants', would such a programme be successful now? If such a programme was in place would a 'digital immigrant' be able to educate its students even with their lack of knowledge of the 'digital natives' 'language'?
Plus not only is there a 'digital divide' in the case of 'digital immigrants' and 'digital natives', one could argue that there is a 'digital divide' globally in the fact that there are the people who have access to such mediums as the computer and the inet, and then there are the people that do not. If all education was to be taught via such a medium then how would the population without access to the inet be educated? In addition to the previous blog, if all communities were to be virtual by being online then again, what about the population who does not have access to such a medium?
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