Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants

 

a.       Who are Digital Immigrant teachers and Digital Native students as categorized by the author?

           Digital Native students:  By Marc Prensky digital native refer to the students today all "Native Speakers" of the digital language of computers, video games and the internet.

           Digital Immigrant teacher: The people who doesn't born in digital world become smitten by the digital and adopted many of the new technology.  

b.       List down 3 differences between Digital Immigrant teachers and Digital Native students?

* Digital Immigrant teachers:

1-  Prefer slow and controlled release of information from limited sources.

2- Prefer singular processing and single or limited tasking.

3- Prefer to provide text before pictures, sounds and video.

* Digital Native students:

1- Prefer to interact/network simultaneously with many others.

2- Prefer receiving information quickly from multiple multimedia sources.

3-  Prefer learning that is relevant, instantly useful and fun.

c.       What is meant by Digital immigrant accent? List down three examples of “digital immigrant accents.”?

      The digital immigrant accent includes going slowly, going step-by-step, using outlines for organization, reading manuals, going to the internet second rather than first. Digital natives find this accent and approach very hard to deal with.

Examples:

1- Printing out your E-mail.

2- Print out a document written on the computer in order to edit it.
3- Bring people physically into your office to see an interesting website.

d.       According to the author, hat is the biggest serious problem facing education today?

       According to the Marc Prensky the biggest problem facing education today is " our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language ( That of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language.

e.       “Should the Digital Natives learn the old way, or should their Digital Immigrants learn the new?”

          Of course some people still learn in the old ways, teach brilliantly in the old paradigms, are not TV watchers, are totally bilingual, and the like. However, the student and educator cultures that I call Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants are not only different in their languages and approaches, but diverge farther every day. From point of view it seem impossible. Few instructors today are comfortable with the languages and implications of blogs, multimedia, massive multiplayer, online games, instant messaging, "moddling" smart and alternative realities.

f.       What should the Digital Immigrant educators really want to reach Digital Natives?

          Digital Immigrant educators they should confront this issue. All their students – they will have to change. It's high time for them to stop their grousing, and as the Nike motto of the Digital Native generation says, “Just do it!” They will succeed in the long run – and their successes will come that much sooner if their administrators support them.

Blog, wiki and delicious used in Saudi context

      Social bookmarking is a way for people to accumulate, categorize, find and control information from web pages on the Internet. Users save links to their favorite and most useful web pages , in order to remember information. I think creating account in the websites as  blogger, Wiki and delicious it will be as a resource for teachers who are interested in having a classroom in websites. There is no a doubt using websites for EFL learning can help learners to improve English language skills. This new methods in learning are effective and can make the EFL learner more interesting in learning.

Blogger:

    What is a blogger?

     Blogs are increasingly touted for their potential to foster online interaction and resource sharing in the field of education. They support a wide range of applications as a simple online publishing system, as personal and collaborative knowledge management tools, and to support instruction.



     In EFL learning in Saudi context, the teacher can ask students to make task and publishing in blogger. In this way the teacher can notice the weakness students  in the grammar and writing skills. In addition, Blogger can facilitate the teachers to communicate with their students.

Wiki:

What is wiki?

      Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wikis serve many different purposes, such as knowledge management and note taking .

      Wiki can use in education EFL classroom. The wiki has proved to be a useful avenue for sharing information and learning from one  another. The famous questions that  people ask is how wikis can be used in classrooms? The simple answer is that we having many ways for examples:

1- Teachers and students can share the information , power points and presentation with each others.

 2- Create in online text for the classroom.

3- Create digital portfolios for students and teachers.

4- Have your students use a wiki to publish information about a topic that they are investigating.
Actually, There are many ways to use wiki in EFL classroom. And the most important that teachers should encourage the student and learn them to use it.

Delicious:

What is delicious?

      Is an internet site designed to allow you access to any website that you bookmark, no matter what computer you are using. Delicious allows you to access you information  and find your websites .Delicious is one of the most popular tools available, taking you through the basics of setting up and organizing your account and the various ways of using it within learning and teaching.

1-The EFL Saudi learners can use delicious in many ways:

2-The ability to add classmate in delicious and share many information with each others

3-The ability to add favorite links related to specific courses.

4-The choice to tag specific words to make your research within an article easier.

5-Teachers can add to the delicious account specific websites that they want the students to access as part of a homework of work-based assignment. The students can be encouraged to build a delicious-based group of links as part of their assignment submission.

            Finally, there is no a doubt bookmarking can help the learner to learn. It a new ways and facilitates the learning. Using websites can introduce teachers and EFL learners to develop competence in using social bookmarking tools. 

 

Reflecting in reading 3

The possibility of Reaching Bax's Normalization on our saudi context: Why is it possible? When

is it possible/reached/achieved?How will it be reached?

      Bax's offer tha history of CALL( computer-assisted language learning). He is suggested that we are currently using open call but "Our aim should be to attain a state of normalisation in which the technology is invisible and truly interated"

 

Normalization is indeed possible to use computer for genuine communication rele for CALL.We can use technology in our language learning. Bax's mention that CALL has been devided into three phasis.CALL will be normalization when the computer become part and parcel of our daily life. By using  the computer every day by the teacher in our school life . The teacher should be explain the lesson by using computer e.x project. Also, should encourage the learner to learn by using computer ( Technology in general). There is no prblems if the teacher learn them how to use computer?All we know it is not eassy process,and the both teachers and students maybe will face many obstacless but they should be overcome.

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   In Saudi Arabia we don't use technology a lot for teaching in school teachers use traditional way in teaching but in college and university the teachers use technology more.

I hope that in the future Saudi arabic it will be the one of the most countries that using technology in teaching especially in language.They can achieve that by encourage the learners to use the common website in learning more rather than entertainment (social network) For examples, twitter and facebook.Also, computer should be available in classroom. The important parts teacher should know how to use competer and tell the learner why we using the technology  in learning and the benifit of it.

Finally,There is no a doubt these days, using technology is play the important role in teaching and learning. it is a new style. The learners can enjoy while learning and the teachers represent the lesson by new and advanced ways. It makes the learning interesting and motivate them to learn more.   .

   

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