Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants By Marc Prensky

The Article Digital Kids by Marc Prensky is an insightful text that illustrates how technology has evolved throughout the world and it's impact on the classroom. Prensky came up with the notion of Digital Natives (commonly the younger generations/students) and Digital Immigrants (teachers or older generations). Prensky suggested in this article that teachers (Digital Immigrants) are believed to be following and old-fashioned style of teaching, however they need to adjust their methods of teaching to better suit students of today's society. Therein lies the answer to the majority of the problems that are arisen in the classroom. I agree with the idea that teachers today tend to favour the old-fashioned, traditional style of teaching and therefore create a boring and uninteresting subject area and that leads to students becoming less involved/engaged in classroom learning.

Prensky conveyed an idea of how students have grown up with technology and are therefore this change called 'Singularity' has occurred. I agree with this in the sense that students have changed (their brains - in the way they operate) because of the fact that their whole lives have been influenced by technology and therefore teachers should find a method of teaching that upholds Prensky's idea of legacy and future content (legacy meaning traditional, for example reading, writing, logic etc; and future meaning more digital and technology).

However, I do not believe that it is impossible for students to learn through the methods used by the Digital Immigrants. Most students of today's society are found to be more lazier and less respectful to authoritative figures and students also need to find a balance between both legacy and future content, its not totally dependant on the teacher and their ability to adapt.

I believe that in order for teachers and students to achieve the best in the future, there needs to be an equilibrium on both parts, and an understanding of both the needs of the teacher and students.