The current state of digitalization: Digital Native, Digital Immigrant and Digital Settler

Abstract

21 th century education lives a digital divide from many aspects in the view of learner and teacher characteristics. We face with digital natives who born to a digital culture and differ from digital immigrants of industrial age. On the other hand, a new group, digital settlers rise with different behaviour and attitude characteristics by the use of technology to keep up with the times. It is quite important to determine the aformentioned groups in this digital divide world and promoting digital immigrants to acquire characteristics of digital natives in order to reduce the conreoversy between them. In this direction this study purposes to draw attention to digital native and digital immigrant characteristics, reflections to learning and teaching experiences and also the concept " digital settler " .