1. 21 st Century Learner Digital Native vs. Digital Immigrant
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This is a PowerPoint covering some aspects of the 21 st Century Learner.
Students report spending: 1. 9-17 year olds report spending nearly as much time using social networking as watching television. 2. 96% of students with internet access report using social networking. 3. 71% say they use social networking sites at least weekly. 4. 60% of students using social networking talk about education topics online 5. 50% about specific schoolwork.
Today’s students are Digital Natives 1. Grow up with technology 2. Their entire lives are surrounded by computers, videogames, MPS, video cams, cell phones, and instant messaging. 3. Today’s average college grads have spent less than 5,000 hours reading, but over 10,000 hours playing video games. 4. Digital Native students think and process information differently from the Digital Immigrants. 5. Different learning experiences lead to different brain structures. Dr. Bruce D. Perry, Baylor college of Medicine stipulates that it is likely that out students’ brains & thinking patterns have changed. 6. Digital Natives become the Native Speakers of the digital language.
The problem: The single biggest problem facing education today is that our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language.
These are patterns of learning for Digital Natives: 1. For example, elementary students can memorize over 100 Pokémon characters and all their characteristics. So, why can’t students learn the names, populations, capitals, of over 100 nations of the world? 2. Tend to drop-out of classes that only lecture or read from the book. 3. Research supports that most Digital Natives cannot process data like Digital Immigrants. This is supported by neurobiology, social psychology, and from various studies based on games for learning.
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