According to Prensky, what is the immigrant/native divide, and how has it affected how students learn?
Prensky believes that there are immigrants to technology, those that technology entered their lives later in life, and those that grew up with computers and cell phones known as digital natives (69). Prensky believes that digital native students since they grew up watching tv and studying or listening to music and studying are more adept at doing so than digital immigrants (70). The digital natives are more adept multitaskers than the digital immigrants.
According to Kirschner there are some myths associated with Prensky's findings. One of the myths he discusses is that being a 'digital native' doesn't necessarily mean one is 'digitally literate.' What does he mean?
Kirschner teaches us to question this paradigm that digital natives are digitally literate (137). What does this mean? It means that just because you are adept with a simple operating system like IOS on an Apple IPad for example that doesn’t necessarily mean you can navigate a keyboard or use Microsoft office or really do anything complicated on the computer. Luckily, I am part of a transition period within the education system where they still taught us how to type properly, navigate word and excel, as well as write a professional email. Below you can see an image of a typing chart similar to one I used during elementary school.
AnsonAlex.com. 2020. Touch Typing Keyboard Finger Chart. Accessed April 25, 2025. https://ansonalex.com/tutorials/free-typing-tutorial-online-video/.
FreeRangeStock. 2025. Person Typing on Keyboard in Front of Computer Monitor. Photograph. FreeRangeStock. https://freerangestock.com/photos/104632/person-typing-on-keyboard-in-front-of-computer-monitor.html.
Kirschner, Paul A., and Pedro De Bruyckere. "The myths of the digital native and the multitasker." Teaching and Teacher education 67 (2017): 135-142.
Prensky, Marc R.. 2012. From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom : Hopeful Essays for 21st Century Learning. Thousand Oaks: Corwin Press. Accessed April 25, 2025. ProQuest Ebook Central.
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