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Alicia Fernandez

Digital natives: Everyday life versus academic stud y - 0 views

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    Access to and use of technology by 'digital native' students studying in our universities has been an area of much speculation, though relatively little empirical research. This has led some pundits to call for a radical rethink of how higher education uses technology to deliver education. Others are more circumspect and think it is necessary to hear directly from these 'digital natives' about their actual technology practices before jumping to such conclusions. This paper reports on a study that aimed to do just that; the study comprised a survey of the technology access and practices in both everyday life and for academic study of first year university students. The findings suggest that, for the participants of this study, access and usage of technology does not neatly fit into the stereotype of the 'digital native'. Access to and use of some technologies was found to be quite high whilst others have significant levels of non-adoption. A comparison was made between technologies and activities undertaken as part of students' everyday life in contrast to their academic study and it was found that the usage rates were generally lower for academic study. Access to and use of different technologies for different purposes is variable and university teachers and policymakers need to take this variability into account when making changes at the course or institution levels. What is also required is more in-depth investigation of the technology practices of these 'digital natives' to understand how technology is transforming their social and academic lives and, importantly, how they are shaping technology to suit their lives.
Tina Bianchi

Words & Place - 3 views

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      Provides a glimpse into Southwestern Native American culture
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      How will you use this resource in your course, tina?
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      Right now I see it as a supplemental resource for getting a glimpse into the very important aspect of Native culture which is oral storytelling. Somewhere along the way we'll look at oral tradition and I imagine there may be at least one student who will pursue the topic in their research.
  • The speakers also talk about the relation of their oral tradition to their native communities. Five programs are recorded in native Indian languages with English subtitles so that students have an opportunity to experience the beauty and complexity of these languages.
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      Students who choose some aspect of Native American culture (oral traditions of storytelling, for example) could benefit from seeing/hearing songs and stories relayed in native language
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  • Andrew Natonabah Through a unique blend of imagery and sound, this website captures the complex oral traditions of Native American communities in the American Southwest. Songs are sung and stories told within the landscapes which inspired them.
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
cgilroy34

Digital Natives - 2 views

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    This is an article I found on the EBSCO data base through the UAlbany library titled "Digital natives? New and old media and children's outcomes" by Michael Bittman, Leonie Rutherford, Jude Brown and Lens Unsworth. This article discusses digital natives and how they react to media. I wanted to share this article in order to help raise the question about whether or not the aging of digital natives will influence the age demographics of online learners in the future.
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
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.
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.
Jane DeMeis

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

Indigenous Knowledge Systems/Alaska Native Ways of Knowing - 0 views

  • This article seeks to extend our understanding of the processes of learning that occur within and at the intersection of diverse world views and knowledge systems, drawing on experiences derived from across Fourth World contexts, with an emphasis on the Alaska context in particular
  • Until recently there was very little literature that addressed how to get Western scientists and educators to understand Native worldviews and ways of knowing as constituting knowledge systems in their own right, and even less on what it means for participants when such divergent systems coexist in the same person, organization or community.
  • issues on a two-way street, rather than view them as a one-way challenge to get Native people to buy into the western system.
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  • ecognize the limitations of a mono-cultural education system,
  • While western science and education tend to emphasize compartmentalized knowledge which is often de-contextualized and taught in the detached setting of a classroom or laboratory, indigenous people have traditionally acquired their knowledge through direct experience in the natural world.
  • The incongruities between western institutional structures and practices and indigenous cultural forms will not be easy to reconcile
  • The complexities that come into play when two fundamentally different worldviews converge present a formidable challenge.
  • As a concept, indigenous knowledge benchmarks the limitations of Eurocentric theory — its methodology, evidence, and conclusions — reconceptualizes the resilience and self-reliance of indigenous peoples, and underscores the importance of their own philosophies, heritages, and educational processes. Indigenous knowledge fills the ethical and knowledge gaps in Eurocentric education, research, and scholarship (2002:5).
  • The study of indigenous knowledge systems as it relates to education falls into three inter-related research themes: documentation and articulation of indigenous knowledge systems; delineating epistemological structures and learning/cognitive processes associated with indigenous ways of knowing; and developing/assessing educational strategies integrating indigenous and western knowledge and ways of knowing.
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.
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.
Tina Bianchi

Primary Sources - History: Native American - Subject and Class Guides at University of ... - 1 views

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      Links to primary and secondary sources; organized by geography
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      Primary source documents will be useful as students conduct research for their final papers
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      Students can take a virtual field trip to view artifacts in the Native American Collection. The images have descriptions, providing some context for students.
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      Students can comment on images, allowing me to pre-assess what they know and what their misconceptions are (Technological KWL chart of sorts)
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    A research guide to primary and secondary sources for Native American history.
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.
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 
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
alexandra m. pickett

Will the Real Digital Native Please Stand Up? -- Campus Technology - 2 views

  • The problem with Prensky's assumption is that it's based on age--on the idea that, because you were born in a certain era, you must be a certain way.
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