亚洲网紅露点

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digital immigrant

[ dij-i-tl im-i-gruhnt ]

noun

Digital Technology.
  1. a person who has become familiar with computers, the internet, and other digital technology as a young adult or later in life. Compare digital native.


digital immigrant

noun

  1. informal.
    a person who has become used to using information technology as a young adult Compare digital native analogue
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of digital immigrant1

First recorded in 2001; coined by Marc Prensky, born 1946, American educator and consultant, on analogy with an immigrant who must learn a new language
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Example Sentences

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Heck, you might not even be a digital immigrant.

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If you鈥檙e a digital immigrant as I am, there鈥檚 something deeply satisfying about Michael S. Rosenwald鈥檚聽report in the Washington Post that 鈥渕illennials still strongly prefer print for pleasure and learning, a bias that surprises reading experts given the same group鈥檚 proclivity to consume most other content digitally.鈥

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Another first-time participant in the NewFronts, whose presentation preceded BuzzFeed鈥檚, is a digital immigrant 鈥 i.e., a legacy-media company: The New York Times, which used its event to formally introduce its video offerings under the banner of Times Video, with the slogan 鈥淏eyond words.鈥

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Those who don鈥檛 turn to the pros for help often seek succor from family and friends, a form of bonding between the Digital Native and Digital Immigrant generations built around questions such as, 鈥淲hy doesn鈥檛 my phone get e-mail anymore?鈥

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If you take an fMRI of the brain of a digital native like today鈥檚 students and compare it to a similar scan of a digital immigrant, like many of their professors, you can see the difference.

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