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This is the blog site for the technology committee at the Lawrenceville School. We hope to use this site as a place for discussion about the role of technology in a Lawrenceville education, bringing in the voices of teachers, students, parents, educators, and more. We will also maintain a collection of related resources here.

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants by Marc Prensky

It's interesting to note that Prensky first wrote this in 2001. Some key quotes:

• Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.
• It is now clear that as a result of this ubiquitous environment and the sheer volume of their interaction with [technology], today‟s students think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors.
• [T]he single biggest problem facing education today is that our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language.
• One of the most interesting challenges and opportunities in teaching Digital Natives is to figure out and invent ways to include reflection and critical thinking in the learning (either built into the instruction or through a process of instructor-led debriefing) but still do it in the Digital Native language.

Links to the original articles:

http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf


http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part2.pdf