Digital Natives, Digital Inmigrants

Digital Natives, Digital Inmigrants

1. Students change

   • they are no longer the people our education system was designed to teach
     • Dr. Bruce D. Perry "Different kinds of experiences lea to different brain structures.
       • Some students ¨s brain have changed physically and are different to others
   • Discontiunity
     • "SINGULARITY"
       • An event that changes things so fundamentally that there is absolutely no going back
       • arrival and rapud diffusion of digital technology

2. Studenst changed

   • "Digital Natives"
     • Today's students are all "native speakers" of the digital language of computers, video games, and the Internet.
     • Digital Inmigrant
       • As digital immigrants learn to adapt to their environment, they always retain their "accent," that is, their foot in the past.
         • "digital immigrant accent "
           • Exmples:
             • print a document written on the computer in order to edit it
               • print your email
     • The problem of these two population is that one is more advanced and the other is overdue
   • Dr. Bruce D. Perry "Different kinds of experiences lea to different brain structures
     • students' brains have physically changed, and are different from others
   • Discontinuity
     • "Singularity"
       • event that changes things so fundamentally that there is absolutely no going back