Digital Natives
This week after reading Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants by Marc Prensky, and The Myths of the Digital Native and the Multitasker by Paul Kirschner I’ve found both to have valid arguments. I fall into the category of the digital native. Being born in the late, late 1990’s I grew up watching television, getting my first phone in the 6th grade, and having to do homework on our home computer. During elementary school, I remember them rolling in the TVs from the library or the projectors that teachers could write on with a felt marker. Then in middle school graduating to the smartboard. Seeing those technological advances was awesome and since it happened while growing up it felt very normal to have things constantly changing and improving. This is where I disagree with Prensky’s logic and side more with Kirschner, I feel like my teachers were very adaptive with the new technologies that came in. In fact, we were often given internet scavenger hunts and tasked with multimedi...
