- The article being about how today's students are no longer the people that the educational system was designed to teach.
- Today's kids have spent there whole lives being surrounded by and using computers, video games, music players, mobile phones and all other things from the digital age.
- they have spent less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading. 10,000 hours playing video games and 20,000 hours watching T.V. Today's students think and process information differently from the people teaching them.
- Students today now being referred to as Digital natives - being 'native speakers' of the digital language.
- Being compared to Digital immigrants the people who process and think differently to digital natives. The older folk were socialised differently to their kids and are now learning a new language. Scientists say a language learned later in life goes into a different part of the brain.
- Examples of the digital immigrant accent are printing out an email, physically bringing people in to see a website instead of sending and URL and phoning someone to ask if they received their email.
- digital immigrant instructors are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language.
- digital immingrants dont think their students can learn from tv or music because they couldnt. and they dont think learning can or should be fun.
- The assumption that the same methods that worked for the teachers will work for their students is no longer valid.
- should the digital native students learn the old ways, or should their digital immigrant educators learn the new? but the digital natives
- smart digital immigrants accept they dont know anything about their new world whereas not-so smart digital immigrants just complain about how good things were in the 'old country'
- Methodology - the teachers today have to learn to communicate in the style and language of thier students.
- Legacy content - the traditional curriculum: reading, writing, logical thinking and arithmetic.
- Future content - includes: software, hardware, robotics. also includes: ethics, politics, sociology and other things that go with them. But how many digitial immigrants are prepared to teach it?
- CAD software - games where the learner must employ to build toolds, fix weapons and defeat booby traps.
- Marc Prensky invites teachers and professors to suggest a subject or topic and he attemps to invent a game or other digital native method way of learning it.
- Prensky says it is lazy and dumb of educators to believe the digital immigrant way is the only way to teach, and that the digital natives' 'language' is not as capable as their own . He believes digital immigrants will have to change.
Friday, 13 November 2009
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants article
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