digital natives or digital immigrants Prensky (2001)
I'm a digital immigrant and I agree that their could be a problem with people like myself trying to teach digital natives. Hopefully, though, after completing this GDLT I will be speaking with another accent.
Because children today are born into this digital age they are not struggling (like someone I know) to understand the concepts and workings as they have not yet been moulded in any one way.
Digital immigrants have to try and re-program while facing many challenges. A tendency to overanalyse as well as trust issues are just a couple that I personally face.
engage or enrage - prensky (2005)
Good old Prensky! He quotes a professor as saying, "Their short attention spans are only for the old ways of learning". Prensky's right when he says children "don't have short attention spans for their games, movies, music or Internet surfing".
I've been in many classromms where children are fidgeting, talking, yawning, rocking and then suddenly the IWB lights up displaying something eyecatchingly vibrant, which moves and talks, and hey presto!......
......we have an engaged class.
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