Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Notes

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Notes


Today’s average graduate has spent no more than 5,000 hours reading and more than 10,000 gaming as well as 20,000 watching TV.

Due to the day in day out use of technology and the fact this generation has literally grown up around it, has effected the way today’s students fundamentally think and process information. - Possibility that brain structure has physically changed.

Students who have massively integrated technology into their lives are known as digital natives.

Those people who were not born around new technology but have developed a linking for it later in life are known as Digital Immigrants. - Older generation tends to not rely on things such as the internet as a first option rather than digital natives.

Teaching problem as teachers are speaking in out dated language and as effect are struggling to teach a group who speaks a entirely different language.

Digital Natives used to receiving information really fast.

Digital immigrants don’t see how education can be fun or in other words learn through using T.V and the internet, this is of course due to the fact that they didn’t grow up with it learning how to use it.

Today’s teachers need to learn how to communicate in the same language as the students in order to allow them to reach there full potential. ß methodology.

Games introduced to help aid learning with software such as CAD.

Example of how the idea of fun plays a acute role in learning, “There is no reason that a generation that can remember over 100 different pokemon cant learn the names, populations, capitals of all the 81 nations in the world, it just depends on how its presented”.