I found this article to be very interesting and insightful. The author Marc Prensky uses the terms digital natives and digital immigrants to describe the people in today’s classroom to the people of the past. Digital Natives are considered today’s students, students who have grown up with and are extremely familiar with technology. On the other hand digital immigrants are the teachers that must understand there is a learning gap between how they use to learn compared to the way students learn today. The Digital Natives are use receiving information really fast, and are good at multitasking. The Digital Immigrants learn differently. For example they would rather print out an e-mail to save it or read it rather than read it on line. Teacher and students must be aware of this gap between them and make strides to shrink that gap. Teachers need to learn new technology and how this can help their students better succeed.
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