Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants - Some Thoughts from the Generation Gap - 0 views
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describe the generation gap separating today's students (the "Digital Natives") from their teachers (the "Digital Immigrants").
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Digital Natives are used to receiving information really fast. They like to parallel process and multi-task.
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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
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Digital Immigrants are attempting to teach the Digital Natives with methods that are no longer valid;
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I find it hard to believe that neurological structures could change to such a dramatic extent from one generation to the next.
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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.