What is Digital Immigration?

Digital Immigration stems from the idea of the generation gap. The generation gap separates those named "Digital Immigrants" and those called "Digital Natives", terms coined by Marc Prensky in 2001. These two names co-inside to create two groups of people in today's society; the natives, people who understand technology and learn to use digital media very quickly and easily, and the immigrants, those who find it hard to grasp digital concepts.
The two groups follow the generation gap because it is said that the "digital immigrants" are exactly that, immigrants, because they were not born into the digital world and have had to adapt themselves to new ways of working and socialising in new media.
The divide can be seen between parents and children or students and teachers, either way it is the younger generation who have grown up speaking the "digital language" through mobiles, gaming and the Internet.
The idea of these two separate groups is that the immigrants have had to work hard in their surroundings to deal with new digital forms of technology meaning the time taken to understand and learn about digital media is a lot longer than the time needed for the "digital natives".
There are many arguments based around education and the reform of how children learn as currently a lot of digital natives are far too advanced in technology for the schooling systems.