Reply to post: Digital Native vs Foreigners

Kids' tech skills go backwards thanks to tablets and smartmobes

JohnNE12

Digital Native vs Foreigners

Maybe us oldies are better at IT because we have had to learn it from scratch. For the digital natives it just always been there to use.

This is the same as the many Europeans I know who speak better english than me (ok then:than I!). They have had to learn the building blocks of grammar, vocabulary and syntax; to decode idioms, slang and shorthand expressions.

In this case we are past peak IT, it is unnecessary for most people to understand it. They only have to use it. There will always be specialists in both English Grammar and IT. For everyone else, these are just tools put there to use.

POST COMMENT House rules

Not a member of The Register? Create a new account here.

  • Enter your comment

  • Add an icon

Anonymous cowards cannot choose their icon