DIGITAL NATIVES, DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS MARC PRENSKY

Group One: Adriana Couto - Ana Gabriela - Andressa Gomide - Amanda Antunes - Leonardo Veiga.

PRESENTATION LAYOUT

Introduction; Digital immigrants and Digital natives; “What should happen?” and methodology; Examples; Conclusion.

INTRODUCTION

Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.

INTRODUCTION

Singularity: dissemination of digital technology in the last decades of the 20th century.

INTRODUCTION

Discontinuity: thinking patterns have changed.

HOW SHOULD WE CALL THESE “NEW STUDENTS” OF TODAY ?

N-[for Net]-genD-[for Digital]-gen

Digital Natives X Digital Immigrants

DIGITAL NATIVES X DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS

Answer these questions to yourselves: 01 – Do you usually turn to the internet for

information second rather than first? 02 – Do you read the manual for a program

rather than assuming that the program itself will teach you how to use it?

03 – Do you sometimes print out your email or even a document written on the computer in order to edit it ?

04 – Do you sometimes bring people into your office to see an interesting website ?

05- Have you ever phoned someone to ask if they had received your e-mail ?

DIGITAL NATIVES X DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS

A big problem facing education: digital immigrant instructors are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language whereas digital natives are being brought up in a population of heavily accented unintelligible foreigners to teach them.

DIGITAL NATIVES

are used to receiving information really fast; like parallel process and multi-task; prefer their graphics before their texts; function best when networked; thrive on instant gratification and instant

rewards; prefer games to serious work.

DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS

have very little appreciation for these new skills that natives have acquired through years of interaction and practice;

don’t believe their students can learn successfully while watching TV or listening to music;

think that learning can’t be fun; assume that the same methods used to

teach them in the past will work for their students now. 

WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN?

Should the Digital Native students learn the old ways, or should their Digital Immigrant

educators learn the new? Kids Born into any new culture, learn the new

language easily, and forcefully resist using the old.

We need to reconsider both our methodology and our content.

METHODOLOGY AND CONTENT

First, our methodology. Second, our content . Two kinds: “Legacy” content includes reading, writing ,

arithmetic, logical thinking, understanding the writings and ideas of the past, etc. – all of our traditional curriculum.

“Future” content is to a large extent, not surprisingly, digital and technological. But while it includes software, hardware, robotics, nanotechnology, genomics, etc. it also includes the ethics, politics, sociology, languages and other things that go with them.

METHODOLOGY AND CONTENT

As educators, we need to be thinking about how to teach both “Legacy” and “Future”

content in the language of the Digital Natives.

The first involves a major translation and change of methodology; the second involves

all that + new content and thinking.

EXAMPLE

Computer game based on software Target audience: male engineers students

between 20 and 30.

EXAMPLE

The new digital native methodology All subjects in all levels It just depends on how it is presented

INVENT NEW DIGITAL NATIVE METHODOLOGY

Use your STUDENTS to guide you.

“THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS”

Create Debates Role-play Meetings

Be creative

digital immigrant wayIS NOT

the only way

educators have to CHANGE

JUST DO IT.

And you WILL succeed.