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Alicia Fernandez

H. sapiens digital: From digital immigrants and digital natives to digital wisdom - 0 views

  • is a twofold concept, referring both to wisdom arising from the use of digital technology to access cognitive power beyond our innate capacity and to wisdom in the prudent use of technology to enhance our capabilities.
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    Prensky revises his digital native/digital immigrant dichotomy to reflect the proliferation of online access. He posits that people are now either digitally enhanced or digitally unenhanced. The digitally enhanced person is called a digital human or homo sapiens digital.
Kelly Gorcica

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants - Some Thoughts from the Generation Gap - 0 views

  • describe the generation gap separating today's students (the "Digital Natives") from their teachers (the "Digital Immigrants").
  • Digital Natives are used to receiving information really fast. They like to parallel process and multi-task.
  • Prensky's analogy struck a chord for me. I could easily identify with the 12-year-old boy who moves with his family to the "new world," quickly assimilates into the new culture, and learns to speak without an accent.
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  • Prensky argues that the gap between Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants is the fundamental cause of the alleged "decline of education in the US," and he contends that our current educational system has not been designed to serve today's students
  • Digital Immigrants are attempting to teach the Digital Natives with methods that are no longer valid;
  • I find it hard to believe that neurological structures could change to such a dramatic extent from one generation to the next.
  • we may be doing them a disservice to de-emphasize "legacy" content such as reading, writing, and logical thinking, or to say that the methodologies we have used in the past are no longer relevant.
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    digital natives vs digital immigrants
Kelly Gorcica

Are You a Digital Native or a Digital Immigrant? - Big Design Events - 0 views

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    Digital native vs. digital immigrant
Gary Bedenharn

Prensky - Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants - Part1.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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    Description of a person being either a digital native or a digital immigrant.
Irene Watts-Politza

elearnspace › Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives - 0 views

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    The terms "digital immigrant" and "digital native" misrepresent the true nature of learners and learning today.
Anne Deutsch

The Digital Natives / Digital Immigrants Distinction Is Dead, Or At Least Dying - 1 views

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    Distinction between digital natives vs. digital immigrants as it relates to educational technology. GREAT list of criticisms of Prenksy's concept.
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    Holton, Doug
Jane DeMeis

untitled - 0 views

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    great site talks abotu native vs immigrants in digtial world and how we need to tailor our ed.
Kelly Gorcica

http://www.malts.ed.ac.uk/staff/sian/natives_final.pdf - 0 views

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    Study providing evidence that debunks immigrants vs. natives debate. Interesting treatment of the language constructs.
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    digital native vs digital immigrant- stereotypes associated 
sherrilattimer

What does it mean to be a digital native? - CNN.com - 0 views

  • As technology filters into every corner of the globe and tech cities spring up in some unlikely places from Bangalore to Tel Aviv, a new gulf is emerging to separate the digitally savvy from the disconnected: Poverty.
  • In India, over two-thirds of the population live on less than $2 a day, according to the World Bank. But a United Nations report still says that mobile phones are more common than toilets, with nearly half of India's 1.2 billion population armed with a handset.
  • hierarchies created by digital literacy and the class systems that will be shaped by access to digital technologies.
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  • digital outcasts -- people whose supposed problem of access to the world has been resolved."
  • By 2020, Prensky predicts people across the globe will be plugged into the "AORTA," -- Always On RealTime Access -
  • "The presents that we live in, are the futures that our pasts have imagined."
Irene Watts-Politza

Digital Natives: Fact or Fiction? - 0 views

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    Zöe Handley considers the notion of the so-called "digital natives / digital immigrants" divide and whether such a divide exists between learners of English as a foreign language and their teachers.
Maree Michaud-Sacks

"Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants" - 0 views

    • Heather Kurto
       
      we need to  reconsider both our methodology and our content.
    • Heather Kurto
       
      we need to  reconsider both our methodology and our content.
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    has technology really changed how our minds work? the changes technology has caused in our culture should impact changes in teaching and learning
Kelly Gorcica

Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants - 1 views

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    sums up the Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants issue and a great great way, very good read By Marc Prensky
Alicia Fernandez

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants,Part II: Do They Really Think Differently? - 1 views

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    Prensky (2001) continues to defend his "digital native" concept by pointing to research that purports that online engagement actually changes brain structures and hence affects the thought process of active users.
sherrilattimer

21 Things 4 Students - 0 views

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    A website to provide the basics of technology. It is particularly great for "digital immigrants". There is even a section that acts as an orientation to Google Drive.
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