What is a digital native? A digital immigrant? In his article, Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part 1 , Marc Prensky identifies the new generation of students as "native speakers" of the digital language of computers, video games, and the internet. Prensky labels those of us who were not born into the digital world but have dabbled in it as digital immigrants. His article explains that teachers, as digital immigrants, have to adjust in order to teach their digital native students. This is not the first time I have heard of the digital immigrant vs. digital native argument, as a teacher of mostly K-3 graders I am significantly more advanced in years. My students were born in a different time, things have certainly changed since I was a Kindergartner. Students are now required to use technology at younger ages. Often times we assume they come to us with knowledge of technology and computers that they don't have. Yes, they maybe be digital natives but that doesn...
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