Thursday 31 January 2013

Natives or Immigrants ?

I am trying to keep up with the reading material . I kind of made my own schedule to work on #EDCMOOC to get organised. I do some reading first,  and then go to Facebook to read the very interesting ideas and information my classmates are sharing .
When we think of technology, what do you think of ? Personally, I think of technology as a whole, and not an idea that has become popular last century, but as an phenomena that has been present since the time human invented the first tools, that is part of our present ,and that will definitely be part of our future.
I perceive technology as the foundation of the social and cultural system. Political, educational , economic, and social changes are due to technological advances. By stating this, I would say that I agree with Marx and Angel' theory of Historical Materialism.
Now when I think about education, and narrow it to the learning teaching experience, I would say that despite the fact my students were born is this so called digital era, they are not digital immigrants nor digital natives, according to the definition provided by Mark Prensky :  Digital Natives/ Digital Immigrants/ Prensky But he is right on addressing one very important matter, most of the teachers we have out there , are digital immigrants , hence they are still getting used to the new technologies .


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