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Interesting blog post/graphic about how digital natives use technology and how they might be better suited to using new technologies (& mobile learning) then non-digital natives. Does this mean that non-digital natives are then less able to teach digital natives then digital natives would be?

Part 2 of the Prensky's 2001 articles on Digital Natives. This one focuses on scientific evidence to back up what he said in part one. It also includes this interesting quote about the attention span of digital natives, which seems to contradict other research on multi-tasking: "Their attention spans are  not short for games, for example, or for anything else that actually interests them. As a result of their experiences Digital Natives crave interactivity-an immediate response to their each and every action. Traditional schooling provides very little of this compared to the rest of their world (one study showed that students in class get to ask a question every 10 hours). So it generally isn't that Digital Natives can't pay attention, it's that they choose not to."

definition of digital native

A great video that shows the extent to which students today are digital natives.

Good find, Sharon. I think this really adds to the metaphor that digital natives are "native speakers" of technology. Much like native speakers of a language can use complex grammar without thinking about it or knowing the labels that linguists place on it, digital natives are easily using complex technology oblivious to all the research the "digital immigrants" are doing to try to understand it.

This is a great article on what our students, the "Digital Natives" can teach us about technology! I have highlighted what I found to be the most interesting and insightful quotes from the article!

Prensky talks about the digital 'natives' and 'immigrants'

Digital Immigrants teaching Digital Natives.  How does that work?

This is a great video about children asking if their teachers are prepared to teach them about technolgy 

Thanks Sharon, I thought that it was a great video too, and I liked the kids eyes and faces he made! haha I didn't even know he was pointing to a place in Canada, good job picking up on that !

Are we prepared to teach the "Digital Natives"? This is such a cute video I couldn't help but share. The young boy asks a very important question- are we preparing our students to enter the digital world?

Interesting videos about the digital native generation!

A series of videos inspired by "Born Digital"

Another video discussing the differences between current teachers of Digital Natives and teachers of non-digital natives

What will the libraries do?  Great video about where libraries might go. 

How can we try to accomodate students who have expectations like this, or grow up using technology at home? Interesting Digital Native Youtube video from VALA.

An interesting article about the divide between digital natives and non-natives

The article that (I think) coined the term "digital native."

Interesting review and summary of the book and fun comic to open the article.

Heard this story on my way to school yesterday! Comcast attempts to narrow the digital divide.

A day in the life of a digital native. 

Digital Storytelling

Marc Prensky and Digital Game Based Learning

Really important information!