Digital Immigrants VS Digital Natives- PrEnsKy

DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS

#Have Been Educated the Old Fashioned way. IE. Books, Library etc.

#Have no need or see no need for the use of technology in or around education.

#do not believe education should be fun because that's how it was in "THEIR DAY"

#they think differently from the digital natives.

#did not grow up with technology and have no need for instant access, downloading, random web surfing, e-mail etc.

#Have a hard time learning how to use technology. Less adaptable.

DIGITAL NATIVES

* Grew up with technology from as far back as they can remember

* Use net speak, abbreviations etc. eg.
-"www.hungry.com" - Kindergarten student @ Lunch break
-"Every time I go to school I have to power down" - High School student on Digital Immigrant Teachers.
-brb lol lmao k kewliiz @- Examples of net speak.

*Cannot Learn @ a slow step-by-step pace, must be constantly receiving information in interesting creative ways i.e. pictures, movies etc.

*Use the net as their first point of reference rather than a secondary resource.

*Brains are wired differently from those of their predecessors.

*Cannot go backwards in their learning using just books and reading.

*Short Attention spans.


Mark Prensky’s article on Digital natives VS Digital immigrants has been a very interesting read he argues that in today’s modern society Digital Immigrants (people who have not grown up with technology-most teachers at the moment) need to realise that most of the teaching methods they grew up with are no longer a valuable teaching method to use on modern age students (Digital Natives) because they access information fast, they need that quick fix and they rely on technology more than books. They live in a world where the less time something takes and the more information it provides the better it is. Digital Natives have developed a whole new culture that needs to be adapted to if immigrants want to try and teach the natives. Teachers must become more computer savvy and must integrate their teaching methods with the way students learn today-Technology. I agree with Mark Prensky because if Digital immigrants don’t adapt students will switch off and then they will not learn anything; technology is our future and in it lies the future Bill Gates’s of the world>>>>>> “The DIGITAL NATIVES”