February+Digital+Natives+Digital+Immigrants

This article discussed the new //Digital Natives// and the //Digital Immigrants//. Digital Natives are the students who have come into this world knowing how to use technology and use it for practically everything they do. Digital Immigrants are those who were not born into this new technological world and need to learn the ways of the Digital Natives to keep up.

I think that it's very important that the so called Digital Immigrants, as the article stated, "Just Do It" and keep in touch with technology and how it has taken over the lives of students now going through their classrooms. Students know how to do things, just in different ways, as well as learning things, just in different ways than the Digital Immigrants are used to.

I thought it was very interesting, yet true how the article said that students can memorize 100 Pokemon cards and their characteristics, but can't memorize the names, populations, and capitals of the 101 nations. They said it was all in the way it is taught, which I strongly agree with. Students don't learn the same way they used to and teachers need to know that and be able to accomodate that. Sometimes I find myself not teaching a way that best accomodates my students. Teachers now need to use a lot of hands on activities and use new technologies to help them out. We are getting inter-write boards into classrooms in my school and things like that have gotten students more motivated. It's something NEW, and that's what students like and it's what motivates them in today's world.