The article Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants by Marc Prensky was educative as well as revealing. I have to say that I enjoyed reading this article and agreed with every single component of this article. It broke down why the new generation of students do not suffer from short attention spans. These students actually choose to not pay attention to what is technically the old way of learning. A form of learning that is not suitable for their new way of thinking and learning.
The article states that students have changed radically, so radically that they are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach. That statement alone is very telling. This new generation of children, which the article called Digital natives, have grown up surrounded by all types of technology from, computers, cell phones, video games and digital music. The article mentions that for this reason today's students think and process information differently. Teachers and all other adults who have not grown up with all types of technology are considered Digital Immigrants. These adults need to understand and accept the differences between the way they learned and the way this new generation learns. This new generation not only thinks differently but gathers, processes and organizes information differently. Teachers of today need to accept this and begin to consider this new way of learning and incorporate more interactivity in their lessons as well as digital game-based learning. The traditional way of teaching is no longer the ideal approach to teaching.
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