As I read through Marc Prensky’s Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants I felt as if I was completely
in the dark as to the mindset of learners who could be defined as “digital
natives.” Being relatively new to
education, his ideas of approach to “digital natives” versus “digital
immigrants” immediately made me ponder my relationship with my students and how
I have always understood how to convey concepts and theories instead of
thinking how I could relate this knowledge to a generation that is primarily digitally
focused. Nothing was truer than his
notion of the “digital immigrant accent” where we the individuals, having
assimilated the digital life, need traditional safety nets in order to ensure
the process is completed. My example
would be that I always announce to my class that I sent them a text and/or
email, when in fact isn’t that what the “text” or “email” was designed to do?
Again, considering myself a novice in education, Prensky’s
paper initially impressed me from a “Wow, I never heard it said that way
before,” position. I did quickly
remember how much I love taking my students in the simulation lab and have them
play out clinical scenarios on a life size manikin. This is a great resource to learn from, but I
started to re-evaluate my thinking, could I teach respiratory physics via a
computer game and apply it to respiratory conditions and how those theories
work together? I think not. Jamie McKenzie furthered that same line of
thinking in her piece Digital Delusions
and Digital Deprivation, where the argument is made that Prensky has over-simplified
the understanding between those who have been brought up in this digital age
and how a complete different methodology is necessary to educate this
demographic.
Professor Thomas Reeves stated, “media comparison studies
have failed to find evidence for the differential effectiveness for one educational
technology over another.” Laying out the foundation, one would express to
someone that held “digital natives” to be a demographic that has to be educated
through completely “new” methods. The
old adage of having many ways to skin a rabbit applies to the myriad of ways
that could be applied to education or the many ways of how students learn, and
that’s where WE come in. From my perspective,
it is my duty to find a way for that student to learn. I always start off by telling my learner(s)
as they are having a problem in answering a problem, “No it’s not you, maybe I
haven’t asked you the right question yet.”
As I continue to learn to be a better educator, the differences between
digital native and immigrant has to be a factor worth investigating but it must
be strongly emphasized, it doesn’t have to be the only factor.
Your digital immigrant accent example made me think of my aunt. She posts on Facebook and always signs her posts. Um.... It always makes me giggle.
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