2. New students N – Gen D – Gen
Digital Natives
“Native Speakers” of the digital
language of computer, video games
and the Internet.
3. Generations that grow up with new
technology
Computers Video games Video cams
Digital Music players Cell phones
Computer games Email
The Internet
Tools of the digital age
4. Today´s students are not
longer the people our
educational system was
designed to teach.
6. Digital Inmigrants
People who were not born into the
digital world, but who are fascinated
by it and who have adopted some /
most aspects the new
technology.
7. A distinction their “accent”
They always retain their “digital
inmigrant accent” because they
are learning a new language later in
life which goes into a different part of
the brain.
8. Examples
• Digital Natives • Digital immigrants
• Turn to the Internet • Turn to the Internet
for information in the in the second place
first place • Read the manual for
• A program teaches a program
them how to use it • Print their emails or
by using it have it print
• Read emails on the • Print documents
screen edit them in them
• Edit documents on • Take people
the screen physically to see
• Send people a URL together an
interesting website
9. Problem in educaction
Digital immigrant instructors, who
speak the outdated language of
the pre- digital age, are struggling
to teach a population that speaks
an entirely ew language.
10. Digital Natives Think and process
information
differently from
their predecessors
Their thinking
patterns ( and
probably their
brains ) have
changed
11. Digital Natives
- Receive information really fast
- Prefer graphics before texts
- Function best when networked
- Prefer games to “serious” work
- Have little patience for lectures,
step-by-step logic
- Have a library on their laptops
- Used to the instantaneity of hypertext
- Use instant messaging
