Find out about 'Digital Immigration'.What Is it? Who cares about it? What sort of general attitudes have been based upon it?
Someone born before the 'digital revolution' can be called a 'digital immigrant', as they have had to adapt to new technology as it developed. This term is the opposite to Digital Natives, who are defined as someone born into a society where the technology already existed and they are "native speakers of the digital language". It can be argued that digital immigrants retain some form of 'accent'. In this instance an 'immigrant accent' could be something such as printing out information from a webpage to read on paper as opposed to the screen.(Prensky, 2001).
Digital Immigrants don't believe their students can learn successfully while watching TV or listening to music, because they themselves can't. Digital Immigrants, according to Prensky, think learning can't and shouldn't be fun.
Prensky, M. (2001) 'Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants', On the Horizon, Vol. 9. Issue 5., MCB University Press.
do you agree with your last comment that digital immigrants accoring to Prensky, think learning cant and shouldnt be fun.? i remember my teachers (maybe they were on the little crazy side) but they did still think that learning was fun.
ReplyDeleteor adding to that, do you think that 'digital natives' just don't think that the way 'digital immigrants' teach is fun?
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