Week8 question 5 Revealed Abstract 1

Abstract 1

Marc Prensky wrote this article too back up his theories on digital immigration. He uses it to show that there is evidence to suggest that digital natives will learn better by learning through video games etc. His evidence is to prove that the brain does change and will shape differently when in different environments. Firstly he uses neurobiology to back up his ideas, in which experiments on animals, brain scans on musicians and looking at chemical changes in the brain when a participant is thinking intensely, have shown that your brain is different in different situations. He then goes on to talk about social psychology he states that there is evidence to suggest that people who are brought up in different cultures not only think about different things they actually think differently, but this does not come easy changing the structure of your brain does not just happen over night, participants have to do very intense hard work over a long period of time, in order for this to work. Because digital natives are surrounded by technology such as video games Marc Prensky believes that this would be the best way for them to learn. He backs this up with evidence that proves that games can help improve learning, but they have to be well made and obviously they have to appeal to the children so that they want to play them in there extra curricular time.