Week 8 question 1 revealed

1) Find out about 'Digital Immigration'.
What Is it? Who cares about it? What sort of general attitudes have been based upon it?

Digital immigration is the fact that people are not used to technology and were not brought up In a digital age, therefore they have to do stuff like print stuff off to edit instead of editing it online. Therefore the opposite of a digital immigrant is a digital native, because these people have been brought up in a digital age, they have been surrounded by computers, televisions and mobile phones, through most if not all there lives.

The people that might be interested in this could be teachers and the government alike, because like marc pensky says people believe that children are changing, but he states that it is surroundings that are changing. They have been brought up in a completely different way to the children of the 1950’s and so they should be taught in a different way. It is thought that there brains are now structured in a different way. As stated by Dr. Bruce D. Berry of Baylor College of Medicine. In Marc Plenskys papers. This means that teachers should be aware of these theories as it may explain why a child is having trouble learning. Although there is a counter argument to this which brings up the fact that if children are so adaptable to technology they should really be adaptable to learning through the traditional ways of teaching.

The general attitudes that are raised in the number of articles that are written on this subject are that education needs to take advantage of the fact that children are processing in different ways, due to the new media. They might benefit more if they were taught through these new media eg. Computer games or the internet. People are having problems dealing with the fact that in a few decades, traditional ways of teaching may die out, just like, Latin and Greek did.