Terri Thompson lives in a digital world: every day, she texts her friend from a television control box she find songs on the radio with her mobile phone, she downloads photos from her phone directly onto her blog and she can video-call a television chat show from her mobile phone and participate live in the programme. She uses 12 technology services every day; so her parents have a big bill. Terri is a digital native; she has been using digital since her childhood.
For digital natives like Terri, 'digital' is their first language. Digital natives have grown up with technology, and so they have IT their fingertips. According to a recent 100,000 hours playing computer games, they send and receive 250,000 emails and day spend 10,000 hours on a mobile phone. In contrast, they spend only 9,000 hours in school (many teens do not take part in lessons, unless the lessons have something to do with sport).
How is digital technology changing teens' brains? The latest research shows that digital natives can recall 90% of images days after seeing them, despite only seeing them for a few seconds. In fact, the eye reads images much faster