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Digital Natives

Digital Natives. By: Shon Williams Jasmine Jade Craig Chloe Baylor Sheryl pierce. “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” by Marc Prensky. K through college represent the first generation to have spent their lives using computers and other tools of the digital age.

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Digital Natives

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  1. Digital Natives • By: • Shon Williams • Jasmine Jade Craig • Chloe Baylor • Sheryl pierce

  2. “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants”by Marc Prensky • K through college represent the first generation to have spent their lives using computers and other tools of the digital age. • Our teachers as “Digital Immigrants are struggling to teach a population of the digital age”. • Teachers assume that learners today learn the same way as learners in the past and that the same methods of teaching will work.

  3. “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants”by Marc Prensky • Digital Natives’ brain structures are likely different due to stimulation growing up. • This has adversely affected ability to think critically and learn from experience. • Digital Natives crave immediate response to their actions (interactivity). • Educators must take advantage of enhanced skills and invent ways to involve/engage weakened skills.

  4. “Silence is golden: Colleges encourage ‘digital natives’ to power down, make time to reflect” • Agrees with Prensky • The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project: 82% of 16 & 17 year-olds own cell phones. • 94% of teens spend time online. • It’s good to have time to think, to not worry about what’s going on tomorrow. • Before final exams 766 undergraduates piled their cell phones into collection baskets.

  5. “Latour meets the digital natives:What do we really know?” – Stephen Sheely • Opposes Prensky • Early references to “digital natives” were only in educational literature citing Prensky. • Broader media began to use the term as established fact. • There is little evidence to support Prensky’s position, and many oppose his “flawed logic”. • Studies found that technologies only reproduce the same interactions and multi-tasking that already existed.

  6. What About Attention Spans? • Digital Natives crave interactivity- an immediate response to their each and every action. • Traditional schooling does not provide enough compared to life outside of school. • Children’s games that are well designed, do produce learning and lots of it -while engaging students. • Digital Immigrants can communicate their skill-valuable knowledge, while exploring in this digital world to obtain their student’s attention.

  7. The ‘digital natives’ debate: A critical review of the evidence • According to the British Journal of Education Technology (BJET), “ their is little evidence of the serious disaffection and alienation among students claimed by commentators. • BJET also says that , “ it cannot be assumed that knowing how to look up ‘cheats’ for computer games on the internet bears any relation to the skills required to assess a website’s relevance for a school project. • Many students become frustrated when searching for educational information via internet. • Students then also make random choices with little thought or process when doing research.

  8. Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives • Born after 1980, when social digital technologies came online. • Digital Natives usually read blogs more than newspapers, meet people online before actually meeting them in person, and tend to buy their music online rather than in stores. • The choices that we make now will govern how our children will learn, innovate, and become as citizens.

  9. Resources • Bennett, Sue, Karl Maton, and Lisa Kervin. "The ‘digital natives’ debate: A critical review of the evidence." British Journal of Educational Technology 39.5 (2008): pp.775–786. Web. 10 Feb 2010. http://api.ning.com/files/AkclmKAQ9nT0vPJuCYL9261SknCvwP1UJ-RaVQ7kZumzWZVPq5iNlfGrqf0Jpc3wUnK8A07FuVmRXQ1WRqnre5q2z53PRnT0/Thedigitalnativesdebatecriticalreview.pdf • Gasser, Urs. (2008) Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives http://books.google.com/books?id=hqJi8FaayN8C&lpg=PA1&ots=YONJvzg_gL&dq=digital%20natives%2C%20digital%20immigrant&lr=&pg=PR4#v=onepage&q=digital%20natives,%20digital%20immigrant&f=false • Sheely, S. (2008) “Latour meets the digital natives: What do we really know?” Retrieved February 9, 2010 from http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/melbourne08/procs/sheely.pdf

  10. Prensky, Marc . "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, Part II: Do They Really Think Differently?." On the Horizon: MCB University Press 9.6 (2001): pp.1-9. Web. 03 Feb 2010. http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part2.pdf • Prensky, M. (Oct. 5, 2001) Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants. Retrieved February 9, 2010 from http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf • Zagier, A. (Jan. 4, 2010) Silence is golden: Colleges encourage ‘digital natives’ to power down, make time to reflect Journal-Gazette. Ft. Wayne, Ind.http://libproxy.hbu.edu/login?url=?did=1933512641&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=8221&RQT=309&VName=PQD

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