This is what digital immigrants will never understand about digital natives. Technology is most effective when being used by someone with a strong fundamental base of knowledge in the area that a particular technology works to enhance. To a digital immigrant, someone who is starting off with a base of unenhanced, self-developed knowledge, technology can act like a springboard, expanding the potential of existing abilities. However, for the digital native, who has a reduced baseline of fundamental knowledge from a lifelong dependency on technology, technology offers little potential for
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