Immigrants Teaching Natives?

How can we engage students in a digital world where the students themselves may know more about communication and IT than the teacher? Unfortunately, the lack of ICT tools in the classroom may be due to a lack of IT ability in teachers. After all, the students have grown up as “digital natives”, and the teachers have had to adapt to this new world as “digital immigrants” (Prensky, 2001). So, teachers need to speak this new digital language fluently to communicate effectively.

This blog is an explorative learning journey from “pencil to .com”. It will explore the emerging digital tools that have so much potential in effectively engaging these “digital natives” in meaningful learning.

Reference

Prensky, M. (2001). Digital natives, digital immigrants. On the Horizon, 9(5). Retrieved July 22, from http://www.marcprensky.com.html/

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