Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants

Hello!!

I would like you to watch this video on Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants. It was published in YouTube. The director is Christopher Shapiro and the information was taken from Marc Prensky's lecture, the author we read to start discussing about this topic.

I'm sharing this video to create awareness about the existence of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants, the differences between them are a fact and we, as teachers, must bear them in mind. Most of us are Digital Immigrants, and we have to learn to cope with this when we wish to include technology in our lessons. These differences showed in the video are also part of today's situations in classrooms, cafes, meetings, etc. Most of us have heard older people complaining because of mobile phone use during dinner... and not having long conversations like it was before...

As we talked about in ECO II, teachers need to know that they are part of a new generation that grew up with technology but still, students need to benefit more from these new technologies to create other things... so I find it really useful to learn how to apply these new means during our teaching programme...

I hope you can watch the video and you are invited to share your opinion...

Have a nice week!
Bye!