Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants: Myth or Reality?

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dc.contributor.authorRikhye, Ravi
dc.contributor.authorCook, Sean
dc.contributor.authorBerge, Zane L.
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-12T16:00:00Z
dc.date.available2019-11-12T16:00:00Z
dc.date.issued2009-02
dc.description.abstractMarc Prensky (1998; 2001a; 200b) argues that students today, digital natives as he calls them, having grown up in the Digital Age, learn differently from their predecessors, or digital immigrants as he terms them. As such, the pedagogical tools we use to educate the Natives are outdated. Intuitively it seems that Prensky is correct: few people who teach digital natives fail to note their students seem to think and learn differently. Attractive as this thesis is, there is little evidence to support the proposition. That does not mean Prensky is wrong. He is onto something, perhaps something seminal, regarding today’s pedagogies and the need to change them. But further research is required before we can conclude with any certainty that digital natives learn differently.en_US
dc.format.extent14 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifier.citationRikhye, Ravi; Cook, Sean; Berge, Zane L.; Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants: Myth or Reality?; International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning 6,2 (2009);en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/16244
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
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dc.subjectdigital nativesen_US
dc.subjectdigital immigrantsen_US
dc.subjectpedagogical toolsen_US
dc.subjectUMBC Instructional System Designen_US
dc.titleDigital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants: Myth or Reality?en_US
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