Week 8 Website 2 Digital Immigration

The website begins by talking about how educators are now ain the 21st century digital age but are still doin things the old way. Its about time they started focussing and observing new modern ways of learning. Marc prensky then goes on to talk about some of the features of our 21st century landscape that will be of utmost importance to those entrusted with the stewardship of children's 21st century education.

Then the website talks about digiatl natives and how they are no longer “little versions of us” (teachers/parents grandparents etc) like they might have been in the past. They have grown up so differently that teachers and parents can no longer use their training and knowledge to educate them in the best way possible. This makes communication more difficult. Prensky argues that digital natives will start to evolove and change so rapidly that it will be hard for digital immigrants to catch up.

Following this the website talks about student engagement and how new ways should be found to engage students in school. They must be engaged in the 21st century way electronically through what kids call 'gameplay'. Incorporating into the classrooms the same combination of desirable goals, interesting choices, immediate and useful feedback and opportunitis to improve that engage kids in their favourite complex computer games.

The wrest of the website discussess the topics of collaborating with students, flexible organization, digiatl tools, programming,Legacy Versus Future Learning and school versus after schoool. Each topic is discussed in a few paragraphs under these bold headings which breaks the website down into sections and makes it easy to read.