ARTICLE EVALUATION

IV. ARTICLE ABOUT "DIGITAL NATIVES, DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS" by Marc Prensky

In the article specific things were shared. Initially, the subjects were seen as amazing; digital natives and digital immigrants.

It was no doubt the case that young people were growing up with the computers and the internet while older people were dealing with learning technology. That different interactions with different things led to different brain structures was interesting for me. However the teacher was placed in such a position that made him/her unable to change methods yet he/she was forced to change in order to remain his job competently. I found that he/she was in a relationship with the technology and his/her status was presented as “immigrant”. Nevertheless he/she had to adapt his/her teaching methods and change the methods in order to reach students who were shown as “natives.” Then would it be a paradox?

Surely we needed to explore digital native methodologies for teaching easily and enjoyable way although the process had already begun. We had to remove old teaching methods to appeal students into learning process. But I didn’t agree with general positioning in that an immigrant digital couldn’t become a native digital.