in class essay 3
4 October 2013
Getting Old Professor Up to Speed in the New World Nowadays, many of Digital Natives student are all around us. They populate our college courses and use the newest mobile technologies to communicate, collaborate, create and share information on social media sites. However, often a disconnection on their path to learning. In many times we can find Digital Native students taught by Digital Immigrant professors. But, there is a situation has been happened, many of today 's professors are Digital Immigrant and they like to use their old style methods for their Digital Natives student. At now, the education system is different , the teaching way of the Digital Immigrant professors is not applicable, so I think they must understand the "language" of Digital Natives. Instead, lots of Digital Immigrant Professors don't believe their students can learn successfully from the social media such as watching TV or listening to music. It is because the digital immigrant professor cannot do the same things. "Digital Immigrant teachers assume that learners are the same as they always been, and that the same methods that worked for the teachers when they were the students will work for their student"(Prensky,"Digital"6). Also they always make their education not worth paying attention to compared to everything else they experience and then they like to blame their student for not paying attention. As the Digital Immigrant teachers, they need to thinking about how to teach both Legacy and Future Content in the content of Digital Native. Moreover, many of Digital Immigrant professors think that learning is necessary and it is often unavoidable. They prefer reading text like books, on processing pictures, sounds and video also they are receiving the information very slowly, linearly and logically. If the professors want to teach their students the most effectively, they can try to change themselves to receiving information quickly and at the same time from multiple
Getting Old Professor Up to Speed in the New World Nowadays, many of Digital Natives student are all around us. They populate our college courses and use the newest mobile technologies to communicate, collaborate, create and share information on social media sites. However, often a disconnection on their path to learning. In many times we can find Digital Native students taught by Digital Immigrant professors. But, there is a situation has been happened, many of today 's professors are Digital Immigrant and they like to use their old style methods for their Digital Natives student. At now, the education system is different , the teaching way of the Digital Immigrant professors is not applicable, so I think they must understand the "language" of Digital Natives. Instead, lots of Digital Immigrant Professors don't believe their students can learn successfully from the social media such as watching TV or listening to music. It is because the digital immigrant professor cannot do the same things. "Digital Immigrant teachers assume that learners are the same as they always been, and that the same methods that worked for the teachers when they were the students will work for their student"(Prensky,"Digital"6). Also they always make their education not worth paying attention to compared to everything else they experience and then they like to blame their student for not paying attention. As the Digital Immigrant teachers, they need to thinking about how to teach both Legacy and Future Content in the content of Digital Native. Moreover, many of Digital Immigrant professors think that learning is necessary and it is often unavoidable. They prefer reading text like books, on processing pictures, sounds and video also they are receiving the information very slowly, linearly and logically. If the professors want to teach their students the most effectively, they can try to change themselves to receiving information quickly and at the same time from multiple