the article is written by a women, who is a digital immigrant trying to understand why her son a digital native is able to learn while listening to his ipod, being on facebook and having videos on Youtube playing. To me this does seem abit much, but i tend to learn more while listening to music and chatting on facebook, it could be because it makes the time go faster and you don't realise how much you have done or learnt because you are still in contact with everyone.
The article talks about how hard it is for parents to understand the concept of being a digital native.
In the article she refers to Marc Prensky and his work on computer immigrants. She also refers to other academics such as Brian Kelly.
The website as a whole in terms of usability, is easy-to-use for all maybe because of who its target audience is, this is probably why the site is simple, and easy to use, the links are situated on the top of the page letting you choose which section of the newspaper you would like to view, which then creates sub categories for you to choose from, there is also a box containing the top stories of the day.
Over all i think the website is up to date, practical and 100% caters for all computer users old or young.
So, does it have RSS feeds? Can you post your own comments on it? Does it give you easy buttons to link to other Web 2.0 sites (delicious, Twitter, Facebook etc? Does it have lots of hyperlinks to other material elswher on the web? etc.
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