Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants By Marc Prensky

-Who are Digital Immigrant teachers and Digital Native students as categorized by the author? 

Digital Native students are those students who are well known with this new technology. Also, they are all “native speakers” of the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet.

 Digital Immigrant teachers are those teachers who were not born into the digital world but they know this technology at some later point in their lives. Then, they follow these changes of the new technology and became captivated by it.  

-  List down 3 differences between Digital Immigrant teachers and Digital Native students? 

Digital Native students are used to receiving information really fast, and they like to parallel process and multi-task. Also, they prefer their graphics before their text, and they prefer random access (like hypertext). They function best when networked, and they prefer games to serious work. But Digital Immigrants are different from digital native students. They prefer to teach- slowly, step-by-step, one thing at a time, individually, and above all, seriously. Digital Immigrants don't believe their students can learn successfully while watching TV or listening to music because the immigrants can't. Also, they think learning can't be fun.

-What is meant by Digital immigrant accent? List down three examples of “digital immigrant accents.”

 It is a language that used by Digital Immigrants' and it shows the lack of technology.
The "Digital Immigrants accent" can be seen in such things as turning to the Internet for information second rather than the first, or in reading the manual for program rather than assuming that the program itself will teach us to use it. There are hundreds of examples of the digital immigrants’ accent. They include printing out your email (or having your secretary print it out for you- an even "thicker" accent); needing to print out a document written on the computer in order to edit it(rather than just editing on the screen); and bringing people physically into your office to see an interesting web site (rather than just sending them the URL). 

-According to the author, what is the biggest serious problem facing education today?

According to the authors, our digital immigrant teachers who teach lessons/lectures by using the traditional way of teaching is the biggest problem facing education today. The reason for that is this way of teaching does not fit with these kinds of students (Digital Native students). 

They need a new way of teaching that fit with their generation and their way of thinking. Moreover, it will facilitate their learning process. Also, they will be very interesting and get a benefit at the same time.

-   “Should the Digital Natives learn the old way, or should their Digital Immigrants learn the new?”

The world has become a sophisticated with new technology now a days and by the time this technology evolution and show a lot of hardware and software. So it is not easy for students to go back forward and teachers must keep pace with this development.

- What should the Digital Immigrant educators really want to reach Digital Natives?

Digital immigrant teacher are able to reach Digital native students if they have a strong desire to learning the use of technology. They just need time to learn step by step in order to achieve it.