Week 9 - Question 5

5) Each student write your own abstract for each article. (5 abstracts each)

1. The purpose of this article, in 2001, was to answer the question ‘What should we call these “new” students of today?’ and ‘How do the people not born in the digital world think about this?’. Prensky expressed this opinion ‘Digital Immigrant teachers assume that learners are the same as they have always been, and that the same methods that worked for the teachers when they were students will work for their students now. But that assumption is no longer valid.’ this lead me to the conclusion that Digital immigration is ‘The Change’. Where one unskilled media alliterated person collides into the world of the digital age with an advanced Digital Native. An explanation about methodology, content, results, legacy and the future was briefly spoken about to begin an investigation into proving he was right in saying ‘But that assumption is no longer valid.’ Easy to understand to Immigrants and Natives.
2. As a ‘Part 2’ of the website above this article had the same structure but different content. In part one was a discussion about how the differences between Digital Natives and their Digital Immigrant is the root of many problems in today’s education. So naturally in this article was evidence. ‘these educators know something is wrong, because they are not reaching their Digital Native students as well as they reached students in the past. So they face an important choice. On the one hand, they can choose to ignore their eyes, ears and intuition, pretend the Digital Native/Digital Immigrant issue does not exist or they can chose instead to accept the fact that they have become Immigrants into a new Digital world, and to look up to their own creativity, their Digital Native students’. I found this very easy to relate to. I am a digital native being taught by a digital immigrant. Prenskys comment above, I feel, basically ‘it does what it says on the can’. I agree with what he is saying.
3. This website introduces a generation gap between the digital immigrants and the digital natives. From the 1980’s onwards the digital natives have been born leaving the digital immigrants, who had been born anytime before 1980 behind in a none digital age. They are called immigrants because they are seen as not belonging to the new age. This website sums up what a digital native is before reading the full article. ‘Digital Native - Noun - a person who has grown up in a world with digital technology such as the internet and mobile phones - opposite - digital immigrant.’
4. After reading a few other articles about digital immigration and after gathering an understanding of the term there were a few lines in this article that have made me agree with the term digital immigration. A few examples are ‘Digital Natives are used to receiving information really fast’ ‘They prefer their graphics before their text’ ‘solution is for today's teachers to learn the language of the Natives, to speed up instruction’. The difference between this website and the others so far is that the author at least questions where the immigrants and natives are blurring as the older generation becomes more zavvi.
5. This article is expressing what Digital Natives are use to rather than the immigrants are. The internet, mobiles, digital cameras etc. (everything after 1980’s (again)). Glogowski suggests that this is what the digital natives are very comfortable with - the way they perceive reality is based on oral listening. Glogowski also has a different argument however compared to Prensky. Glogowski argues that ‘the two catagories of digital natives and immigrants do not accurately represent what is now happening in education’.