DI (digital natives) thinks that student are not the same as
they students at the past
They have changed the way of learning and
studying
Also the way students pay attention Is not the
same
DN are skeptical about learning
¨all they did was read from their textbooks says students
Digital Immigrant instructors make their education not worth paying attention
to compared to everything else they experience – and then they blame them for
not paying attention! ¨
Today´s teachers have to learn to communicate
in the language and style of their students.
What do DI have to reconsider for teaching DN
As educators, they need to be thinking
about how to teach both Legacy and Future
content in the language of the Digital
Natives
this is the author's suggestion regarding what they had to do
against the methodology
the author thinks that they have to invent, but not
necessarily from scratch. Adapting materials to the language
of Digital Natives has already been done successfully. My
own preference for teaching Digital Natives is to invent
computer games to do the job
suggestions for organizing content
The first involves a major translation and change of methodology for example reading, writing,
arithmetic, logical thinking, understanding the writings and ideas of the past, etc; the second
involves all that PLUS new content and thinking, for example software, hardware, robotics,
nanotechnology, genomics, etc. It´s not actually clear to me which is harder – “learning new stuff” or
“learning new ways to do old stuff.”