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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?

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.

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."

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'

definition of digital native

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

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

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.

A day in the life of a digital native. 

Digital Immigrants teaching Digital Natives.  How does that work?

So in all your readings of digital natives, here's a real life example. Honestly, I'm a little terrified....

An interactive way to understand what being a digital native means.

Another video about Web 2.0 Technologies - All digital natives use them... do you know what they are?

Loved that video. Makes me wonder how I'm going to incorporate as much technology as I can into my own classroom.

Clarification about VALA from my Digital Native youtube post.

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?

More on Digital Natives

Digital Natives

What a powerful eye opening account of the importance of technology for elementary students in their own words!

The clips are pretty fun, and the info is pretty well laid out. Not to mention I enjoy most things set to "The FInal Countdown."