Here are some notes on the article 'Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants' by Marc Prensky. He is writing about the influence new technology and media has on young people minds, and whether it affects how they learn.
- The reason for the decline of education is because student have changed dramatically - "students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach"
- There has been a big change within young people, bot in there style or clothes but an unusual and singular quality has taken place - which has maybe changed things so dramatically that it will not go back - the arrival of digital technology.
- Our generation is the first to grow up with this - we have spent our entire live surrounded by it.
- On average college grads have spent 5000 hours of their lives reading and 10,000 on playing video games
- Through the new media of today young people "think and process information differently than before". - The difference goes further than educators realize.
- It is likely that students brains have physically changed.
- students are 'digital natives' of our era
- people who have not grown up with this same exposure to the digital world - "digital immigrants"- the older generation have a "different language".
- This could be a problem as less digitally able older people are struggling to teach the younger population that now speak a "different language".
-"Digital Natives" - young people are used to receiving information fast and having immediate gratification.
- the two different generations have different ways of learning, older generations don't believe that you can learn whilst listening to music because they did not do this or have practiced this unlike younger generations - teachers assume that there learning methods still apply to who they are teaching
- What can happen? can younger people (with the influence new technology has had on our brains and the ability to learn) learn the old fashioned way.
-Prensky believes teachers should learn to communicate in the style of there students, through method and content
- teach faster, less step by step
- need to teach more about and through digital technology, which students would find interesting.
- there needs to be a major shift in the method of teaching
- a video game was made called 'monkey wrench' to help people in the engineering industry to help understand new technology - it was phenomenally successful in getting people to understand the software.
- similar rethinking teaching methods needs to be applied to all subjects - need to make 'Digital Natives' methologies for all subjects.
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