Week 8 pt.5

In this final article I found, comparing the differences of digital natives and immigrants, it again looks at this cultural and age divide and the way the younger generation has been brought up on technology. However instead of Marc Prensky focusing on the negative aspects of the digital up bringing of today, he looks at how the digital immigrants should and easily could change in the way they teach the natives of today. ‘We need to help all our students take advantage of these new tools and systems to educate themselves’.
However the one thing I’d say of this ‘solution’ this that yes the internet and other technologies have seem to take over the world and young people’s lives, but we shouldn’t make such a sudden transition from analogue to digital. In education for example, books have been probably the best resource in academic learning and will still be so in the next decade. The internet may be here to stay, but so shall these tradition methods of research and understanding.

Prensky, M. (2005/6) Educational Leadership

http://www.ascd.org/authors/ed_lead/el200512_prensky.html