Week 8 Website 1 Digital immigration

This web site goes talk about how the world today is developing and so fast moving that there is always advances in technology that people are having to familiarise themselves with. However students today are well equiped for these kind of changes more than adults resulting in the disconnection between how students learn and how teachers teach. The researchers that are mentioned in the website Ian Jukes and Anita Dosaj refer to this disconnection as "poor communication between 'digital natives' today's students and 'digital immigrants' many adults.

The website then goes on to talk about the differences between digiatl native learners and digital immigrant teachers and what types of things set them apart from one another. Digital immigrants prefer recieving their information quickly from multiple multimedia sources, they prefer parallel processing and multtasking. They process pictures, sounds and videos before text, so they would rather learn through watching videos rather than picking up a book to read. They prefer random access to hyperlinked multimedia information and they like to interact with friends and family simultaneously. They learn 'just in time' and like learning that is relevant, instantly useful and fun whilst recieving instant gratification and rewards.

On the over hand digital immigrants like teachers/tutors prefer slow and controlled release of information from limited sources, singular processing and single or limited tasking. Providing text books is much preferred rather than learning through pictures, sounds and videos. Teachers like to provide information linearly, logically and sequentially. They prefer students to work rather than network and interact. They prefer to teach 'just in case' incase things do come up in the exam, and they choose to teach to the curriculum guide and standardized texts, they give deferred gratification and rewards.