DIGITAL NATIVES, DIGITAL

IMMIGRANTSBy Marc Prensky

Group 1: Cinara, Najla, Neemias, Sonia

"A really big discontinuity has taken place."

Call it Singularity?"an event which changes things so

fundamentally that there is no absolutely going back."

“Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was

designed to teach.”

N-gen or D-gen                        =

DIGITAL NATIVES

“...Digital immigrant instructors who speak an outdated language

(that of the pre-digital age) are struggling to teach a population

that speaks an entirely new language.”

• They learn to adapt but retain a certain “accent”

Digital Immigrants

What does "dial" a number mean anyway?

"...it is very likely that our students´ brains have physically changed - and are different from ours - as a result of how they grew up."

 

Should the Digital Native students learn the old ways, or should their Digital Immigrant

educators learn the new?

"...unless we forget about educating Digital Natives...we need to

reconsider both our methodology and contents."

•First - METHODOLOGY - not changing the meaning of what is important...but...

going fasterless step-by-stepmore in parallelmore random access

Second - CONTENTS 

Legacy - all of our traditional curriculum, like reading, writing, math, logical

thinking...etc.

Future - digital and technological contents. Example: hardware, software, robotics,

nanotechnology, ethics, politics, sociology...etc.

"Edutainment" - education + entertainment

Math - "future math" - approximation, statistics, binary thinking...Geography - no need of memorizing names and numbers, cities and capitals. All depends on how it is presented. Games should be created.

"We need to invent Digital Native methodologies  for all subjects, at all levels, using our students to

guide us."

Conclusion 

"If Digital Immigrant educators really want to reach Digital Native students - all their students - they will have to change."

"Just do it!"