I think Digital Immigrants are stretched the most when it comes down to education because they are the ones who have alot of catching up to do in terms of learning at a fast pace what the digital natives already know.
Prensky argues....
“like all immigrants, some better than others – to adapt to their environment, they always retain, to some degree, their "accent," that is, their foot in the past. The “digital immigrant accent” can be seen in such things as turning to the Internet for information second rather than first, or in reading the manual for a program rather than assuming that the program itself will teach us to use it.”
To educate a digital immigrant I think a person should not be stretched educationally because if you are not familiar with the internet things need to stay simple. Then again, if people are expected to get to grips with computer games, podcasts and the like, why shouldn't they be expected to get to grips with 2hr lectures and 500page text books?
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