Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants

 

a.Who are Digital Immigrant teachers and Digital Native students as categorized by the author?

The author saw that, students these days are native immigrants from his point of view. Because they have born and grown up in advanced digital Technology environment totally different than the old traditional environment .which their teachers who are a digital immigrant teacher from his point of view and their entire educational process. In his example he mentioned as well for two different kinds which was group  of traditional teachers as digital immigrants, and the team of young people who have been working for him as a native immigrants .that was an example for both.

 

b.      List down 3 differences between Digital Immigrant teachers and Digital Native students?

1-      Today’s students which is the native immigrants ,spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital music players, video cams, cell phones, and all the other toys and tools of the digital age. But teachers or old people spend most of their time grousing about how good things were in the “old country’.

2-      Digitals immigrants had their education in an old stable or in the traditional fashion system.

3-      Native immigrants been twice faster and fixable and like trying not just read and copy than digital immigrant which took much double time and effort to learn and deal with the new application or system .

c.       What is meant by Digital immigrant accent? List down three examples of “digital immigrant accents.”

He meant their way or life style of education and dealing with the outer world now

1-      Digital Natives are used to receiving information really fast. They like to parallel process and multi-task. They prefer their graphics before their text. Rather than the opposite. He meant digital immigrants They prefer random access (like hypertext). They function best when networked. They thrive on instant gratification and frequent rewards. They prefer games to “serious” work.

2-      Digital Immigrants, who themselves learned – and so choose to teach – slowly, step-by-step, one thing at a time, individually, and above all, seriously. Digital Immigrants don’t believe their students can learn successfully while watching TV or listening to music, because they (the Immigrants) can’t. and also Digital Immigrant teachers assume that learners are the same as they have always been, and that the same methods that worked for the teachers when they were students will work for their students now.

3-      Digital Immigrant teachers, the people sitting in their classes grew up on the “twitch speed” of video games and MTV. They are used to the instantaneity of hypertext, downloaded music, phones in their pockets, a library on their laptops, beamed messages and instant messaging. They’ve been networked most or all of their lives. They have little patience for lectures, step-by-step logic, and “tell-test” instruction.

 

d.      According to the author, hat is the biggest serious problem facing education today?

He wished that the old tradition educational fashion should be changed, and He thought that they need to invent Digital Native methodologies for all subjects, at all levels, using our students to guide us. The process has already begun – I know college professors inventing games for teaching subjects ranging from math to engineering to the Spanish Inquisition. We need to find ways of publicizing and spreading their successes. Also the Digital Immigrant way is the only way to teach, and that the Digital Natives‟ “language” is not as capable as their own of encompassing any and every idea.

e.       “Should the Digital Natives learn the old way, or should their Digital Immigrants learn the new?”

both ways are important because the new way of native immigrants can work on some subjects but doesn’t much all subjects they need to learn it old way and also it’s important for digital immigrants to learn the new way so they can communicate not just with their student but also with life demands .

f.       What should the Digital Immigrant educators really want to reach Digital Natives?

 

If Digital Immigrant educators really want to reach Digital Natives – i.e. all their students – they will have to change. It’s high time for them to stop their grousing, and as the Nike motto of the Digital Native generation says, “Just do it!” They will succeed in the long run – and their successes will come that much sooner if their administrators support them.