Digital Immigrant or a Digital Native????

If I am Digital Immigrant do I not understand the students of today? because they speak a different language. As I am close to the Digital Natives I feel that it will be much easier for me to change and modify my thinking when it comes to the new students of today. As Prensky (2001), suggests that the teachers of today speak a totally different language from the students of today. The students are Digital Natives they were born into the Digital age they have grown up around so many devices and have had so many interactions and practice to acquire great skills around these devices.

I need to change some of my pedagogy... I  need to enhance my skills in technology and begin to understand what it has to offer me as a teacher. Teachers need to make there teaching as interesting and engaging as the devices and programs students are using..

The questions that I am asking myself today :

What do these devices have that we don't?
Do we need to change our thinking?

We also learnt about professional values in the lecture this week, this is something that I need to think about a little more in depth by right now I believe that teachers need to continue to develop their education and life long learning, by participating in their own professional development that builds on their existing skills. This is so that they can acquire a better understanding of new technologies and ICT resources. So that they know how to apply them successfully in their classroom practice. Hopefully over the weeks I can build on my understanding of what it means to be a teacher that has the capabilities to develop effective and efficient practice with ICTs.

Bianca x

Reference List

Prensky, M 2001, Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, On the Horizon. vol. 9 no. 5 pp. 1-6

The Drum Opinion, 2010, Digital natives vs digital immigrants, Retrieved fromhttp://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/28606.html