Generational differences İn digital age a research on technology experiences of generations

Communities reformed after internet-the most important invention of the Digital Age, has taken part in our lives. The communities born in a similar time interval, are affected by similar economic and social formations and behave in a similar manner that constitutes the generations. The digital world has given birth to the concepts of “digital native” and “digital immigrant” among the generations. The last digital natives are the individuals of today's last generation Gen Z and continue to live as technology addicts. In this study, firstly, digital age concept is explained, digital native and digital immigrant concepts are defined and afterwards, generations are classified, intergenerational differences and generation Z are examined. This study focuses on examining the high school students as the last digital natives and their teachers as digital immigrants and their technological experiences as well as technological features. Therefore, a survey; “Experience with Technology Questionnaire” was administered. The participants were a group of 10th grade high school students and their teachers. The survey aims to determine the technology usage features of those two groups. © IJSTR 2020.