Prensky, M. (October, 2001). Digital natives, digital immigrants. On the Horizon, NCB University Press, 9(5).
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants.
Prensky suggests that our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach. It is now clear that a result of this ubiquitous environment and the sheer volume of their interaction with it, today’s students think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors. Our digital immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language.
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