Digital Native versus Digital Immigrant

When I first heard Dr. Bogad say the terms "digital native" and "digital immigrant"  I felt that they are politically incorrect.  I feel as though because of the times we currently live in that the word immigrant and native should not be used in a light hearted context.  It opens a can of worms to create more metaphorical terminology that could potentially degrade someone who is trying to learn a new language and culture.     In the article It’s Complicated I am glad to see how they recognized the view, “From an ethnic studies perspective, the language of “natives” and “immigrants” is particularly fraught.”  (I am currently working towards my master’s in Teaching English as a Second Language.)  The implications of people being labeled as immigrant or native perpetuates a stereotype that immigrants cannot bring their own literacy skills to the new culture when they can and should.

Also, why not make new terminology for the new concepts.  For example, I love the idea of calling people either computer noobs or computer gurus.  Here are two terms that will not offend our emigrating world.  Plus, at least when I was in middle school and high school, students were given keyboarding classes to properly train us on a qwerty keyboard.  Nowadays, students are not taught how to type at their fastest rate so what does that do to how their brain is wired to the computer and future endeavors?    

Lastly, I think the implications of saying because students are brought up in a digital age does not mean they are digital natives.  For instance, this is another stereotype because it is making assumptions that all students are using computers in their free time.  This could be incredibly troublesome for someone who is actually an immigrant and has never worked with a computer in his or her life before.  For someone who is a noob to computers we could show them real world examples of propaganda or false news compared to what we see in today’s world.  For digitally literate students we could do the reverse lesson, in order for them to see how propaganda has evolved.  This is one way we can connect what we see in the real world to what we see in the computer screen.