According to Prensky, I fit in the category of digital native. This has effected my learning in a huge way as I find I heavily rely on the internet and electronics to get the knowledge I need into my head. This is partially why I am now an ecampus student rather than in person at OSU. Learning online comes easier to me than it would in class and the classes are generally more convenient to take, even though they require equal credit hours and the same homework. Maybe being a digital native has made me lazy, but doing some things a digital immigrant would have originally done or would still do sounds like a waste of time.
One of the myths Kirschner states is that being "digitally native" does not mean one is "digitally literate." What Kirschner means by this is that even if you were born in the time of rising technology and that it is generally all you know, that does not mean you necessarily act as a digital native or know the ins and outs of technology as a digital native might know. I personally know a good bunch of people around my age that prefer the older ways of learning and work, and quite frankly are poor at using digital devices. There is a spectrum of ones own digital ability and status, it is not one size fits all.
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