Talking Points # 3 Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants..By Marc Prensky

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants By Marc Prensky

I agree with this article when it says that if Digital Immigrant educators really want to teach digital natives they will have to change...by this just changing the curriculum and the way to present new topics to students in a language that they understand. I understand that Marc talks about how digital immigrants lives rely soley on technology and in order to get through to them digital natives need to start talking in their language. They finally did change some things with the video games for instance, monkey wrench which helps get young people interested in certain software also helps teach them how to build tools, fix weapons, and defeat traps.

There really wasn't a particular part of the article that I didn't understand, I think that because I would be known as a digital immigrant I understand completely where this article is coming from and agree that teachers have to learn to communicate in the language and style of their students.

There were some parts in the article where I could completly agree and an example that reminded me of things my mom says to my brother and I. For instance, "Digital Immigrants don't believe their students can learn successfully while watching TV or listening to music because they can't. When I was in HS my mom would always yell at me to go up in my room and do my hw she didnt understand how i could concentrate with all the noise downstairs.
Another quote from the article that made an example come to my mind was, "Computer games, email, the internet, cell phones, and instant messaging, are integral parts of their lives." My first year of college I went to Framingham State in Framingham MA. We were required as freshmen to buy these dell laptops because the campus was wireless and many of the teachers would teach through them. Its amazing how when my mom went to school and now how different the ways of presenting and teaching were and are used.

I think its interesting that average college grads spend less time reading but 10,000 hours playing video games. Its kind of humerous when you find a 5th grader with a cell phone now a days. It was funny because in class the other day Deanna and I were talking about high school and cell phones came up and I said that I got one my freshmen year of high school because of sports and such, and she looked at me like when you were a frehsmen because of the couple years difference she didnt get a cellphone until years later and thats all because of the digital technoloy change.