Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants:
Digital immigrant
teachers :who were not born into the digital world but have, at some later
point in our lives, become fascinated by and adopted many or most aspects of
the new technology. Digital Native students: students are all “native speakers”
of the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet.
Differences between Digital Immigrant teachers
and Digital Native students. Digital Immigrants learn – like all immigrants,
some better than others – to adapt to their environment, they always retain, to
some degree, their "accent," that is, their foot in the past. Digital
Immigrants typically have very little appreciation for these new skills that
the Natives have acquired and perfected through years of interaction and
practice. These skills are almost totally foreign to the Immigrants, who
themselves learned – and so choose to teach – slowly, step-by-step, one thing
at a time, individually, and above all, seriously. Some refer to them as the
N-[for Net]-gen or D-[for digital]-gen. But the most useful designation I have
found for them is Digital Natives. Our students today are all “native
speakers” of the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet. Digital
Natives: they use the technology every day, but Digital Immigrants
Those
of us who were not born into the digital world but they don't use technology
too much.
The “digital immigrant accent” can be seen in
such things as turning to the Internet for information second rather than
first, or in reading the manual for a program rather than assuming that the
program itself will teach us to use it. Today‟s older folk were
"socialized" differently from their kids, and are now in the process
of learning a new language. And a language learned later in life, scientists
tell us, goes into a different part of the brain. For examples : They include
printing out your email or having your secretary print it out for you an even
“thicker” accent. and bringing people physically into your office to see an
interesting web site (rather than just sending them the URL). needing to print
out a document written on the computer in order to edit it (rather than just
editing on the screen).
the biggest serious problem facing education
today is that our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated
language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population
that speaks an entirely new language.
I think the digital natives will learn
the old way. But, I think the Digital Immigrant should learn the new because
the Digital Native have little patience for lecture, step-by-step.
They should
learn more about technology and using computer, games, internet in their
education
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