Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants“Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.” So begins Mark Prensky’s article, Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, in which he discusses the divide between the current generation of parents, teachers and school administrators – who grew up in the age before the internet – and today’s students, who have been raised in an era of digital communication and technology.
Don't Bother Me Mom, I'm Learning : How Computer and Video Games Are Preparing Your Kids For Twenty-first Century SuccessMon, 01/07/2008 - 13:23 -- adminThe reason kids are so attracted to these games, Prensky says, is that they are learning about important “future” things, from collaboration, to prudent risk taking, to strategy formulation and execution, to complex moral and ethical decisions. Prensky’s arguments are backed up by university PhD’s studying not just game violence, but games in their totality, as well as studies of gamers who have become successful corporate workers, entrepreneurs, leaders, doctors, lawyers, scientists and other professionals.
