Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part 1
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...It is also argued that educational institutions at all levels are rapidly becoming outdated and irrelevant, and that there is urgent need to change what is taught and how (Prensky, 2001a; Tapscott, 1998)....
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...These characteristics are exemplified in the followed quote from Prensky (2001a), but are also evident throughout much of the digital natives literature: Today’s students have not just changed incrementally from those of the past… A really big discontinuity has taken place....
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...Teachers who do not change their practices are labelled as ‘lazy’ and ‘ineffective’ (Prensky, 2001a)....
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...They are described as living lives immersed in technology, “surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital music players, video cams, cell phones, and all the other toys and tools of the digital age” (Prensky, 2001a, p. 1)....
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...The generation born roughly between 1980 and 1994 has been characterised as the ‘digital natives’ (Prensky, 2001a) or the ‘Net generation’ (Tapscott, 1998) because of their familiarity with and reliance on information and communication technology (ICT)....
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...Because young people grew up with these digital options compared to older people who had to learn how to use them (Prensky, 2001), differences may emerge across generations....
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...Using the notions of digital natives and digital immigrants, Prensky (2001), concludes that many digital immigrants confront each change in technology as something new to be mastered....
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...Younger people grew up with these digital options at their disposal to interact and communicate, making them digital natives (Prensky, 2001)....
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