'Digital Natives' and 'Digital Immigrants'

As Prensky stated, I personally believe that there is a gap between 'Digital Natives' who are students and 'Digital Immigrants' who are teachers. As far as I can reflect on my own experience, I can trace the gap between ourselves (as students) and teacher because the way we are raised is different from their way of being brought up. Nowadays, students are actively engaged in technology and it may be true to say that technology becomes a component part of their lives so their way of thinking and perceiving things or information is changed. It also affects the communication and interaction among themselves(students) and between teahers. For example when we think about Twitter,surely,which is one of the applications that core of the social media, all students are engaged in it. As a result their way of thinking change beacause it is limited; students need to express their ideas in 140 characters, which may make them so lazy to read long academic texts. They are fond of short and concrete information because of social media habits.Hence, students may have difficulties regarding this aspect of the problem. Teachers may be unaware of this division or may be it isn't so visible but they need to adapt themselves and their teaching styles. Personally, I believe technology should be integrated into instruction more to overcome these problems and students attention and language or social media habits are solved.