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Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants

Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants. Mark Prensky. By: Amy Wright. The Article. Claims that today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach Today’s students (K-college) think and process information different from their predecessors

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Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants

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  1. Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants Mark Prensky By: Amy Wright

  2. The Article Claims that today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach Today’s students (K-college) think and process information different from their predecessors Suggests likely alteration of students brain due to technology exposure Suggests that students are digital natives; teachers are digital immigrants

  3. The ‘Digital Native’ and ‘Digital Immigrant’: a Dangerous Opposition (Sian Bayne and Jen Ross) • Discussion of Article • Authors acknowledge the use of the Prensky’s article in higher education • Proposes that article has made blanket claims – homogeneity is misleading and dangerous • Study (JISC, 2007) finding – frequent use of technology by youths does not mean that this group desire more technology-focused approaches to teaching and learning

  4. Discussion of Article Cont’d Tendency to marginalize role of teacher Teacher as the immigrant assumes a subordinate position Article posits a one-way determining relationship between the technology and the role of the teacher Teacher is placed in a delicate position; one which is both subordinate and impossible Proposes that “Native –Immigrant” is a problematic metaphor

  5. Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants: An Analysis of Age and ICT Competency in Teacher Education(Ruth xiaqing Guo, Sunny Teresa Dobson Stephen Petrina) Discussion of Article Article examines the intersection of age and ICT competency and critiques the digital natives versus digital immigrants arguments proposed by Prensky Reported research findings to contrast views of Prensky No statistically significant difference between age groups for either pre-program or post-program age groups No convincing evidence to support Prensky’s claim about the effects on brain function caused by exposure to technology

  6. Discussion of Article Cont’d Suggests that digital native is a misleading and deceptive title that may “dissuade educators from working at the intricacies of how individuals engage in digital media” Brenson (2003) in this article suggested that the dazzle of cyberspace and wired communication can place brain processing in a state of imbalance Unclear how informal exposure to digital technologies influence competency with an understanding of the technologies

  7. References Guo X., Sunny T., Dobson, P. 2008. Digital natives, digital immigrants: An analysis of age and ICT competency in teacher education. Journal of Computing Research, 38(3) 235-254 Bayne, S. Ross J. 2007. The ‘digital native’ and ‘digital immigrant’: a dangerous opposition . Annual Conference of the Society for Research into Higher Education Prensky, M. (2001). Digital natives and digital immigrants part 1. On the horizon9(5), 1-6

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