Digital Natives, Digital Inmigrants

Digital Natives, Digital Inmigrants

1. Students changed

   • Digital Natives
     • students today are all "native speakers" of the digital language of computers, video games, and the Internet.
     • Digital Inmigrants
       • 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 your email
             • print a document written on the computer in order to edit it
     • The problem of these two populations is that one is more advanced and professional and the other is overdue and still learning
   • Discontinuity
     • "Singularity"
       • an event that changes things so fundamentally that there is absolutely no going back.
       • the arrival and rapid spread of digital technology
   • Dr. Bruce D. Perry “Different kinds of experiences lea to different brain structures.”
     • Students' brains have physically changed, and are different from others as a result of how they grew.