Digital Natives, Digital ImmigrantsBy Marc Prensky
Biography Speaker Writer Consultant Innovator
In the field of education and learning
A big discontinuity has taken place:
Singularity: the arrival and rapid dissemination of digital technology in the last decades of the 20th century.
Today’s average college grads have spent less than 5,000 hs of their lives reading but over 10,000hours playing videogames.
Brain structure and thinking patterns
• Today´s students think and process information differently from their teachers.
• Our students’ brains have physically changed – and are different from ours – as a result of how they grew up.
Digital Natives WHO ARE THEY?
They’re our students today.
WHAT DO THEY DO? use the digital language of computers, video games
and the Internet. are used to receiving information really fast. like to parallel process and multi-task. prefer their graphics before their text rather than
the opposite. prefer random access (like hypertext). They function best when networked.
Digital Immigrants WHO ARE THEY? People who were not born into the
digital world They have become fascinated by and
adopted many or most aspects of the new technology.
They always retain, to some degree, their "accent," that is, their foot in the past.
I’ll tell you for the last time grandpa.. You DON’T NEED A PAPERKNIFE TO OPEN AN
E-MAIL!!!
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The Clash Our Digital Immigrant instructors, whospeak an outdated language are struggling toteach a population that speaks an entirely new language.
How immigrants teach
How natives learn
• slowly
• step-by-step
•one thing at a
time
• individually
• seriously
(they were taught that way)
They are used to:• hypertext• downloading music• phones in their
pockets• a library on their
laptops• beamed and instant
messages.• Working on the net
Reconsidering methodology and content
• Methodology: Learning to communicate in the
language and style of our students.
1. going faster2. less step-by step3. more in parallel4. with more random access
• Content› Reading› Writing› Arithmetic› logical thinking› understanding the writings
and ideas of the past
› Digital and technological› Inclusion of software› Hardware› Robotics
Legacy
Traditional curriculum
Future
Conclusion
NECESSITY OF NEW INVENTIONS
USE OF COMPUTER GAMES
ADAPTATION OF MATERIALS DIGITAL NATIVES ARE FAMILIAR WITH
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