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Although I use computers, this has been principally limited to basic word, excel and googling on the internet. The gap to how today’s teenagers use digital technology is immense. As a student teacher, it is essential that I bridge this gap to be able to communicate ideas and concepts more effectively using the students communication medium of [...]

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Comment on ‘Listen to the Natives’ by Marc Prensky (http://www.ascd.org/authors/ed_lead/el200512_prensky.html)
 
This article suggests the idea of the present generation being digital natives, and older generations digital immigrants. This concept is useful in considering differences in learning, but we should be careful not to stretch it too far. Some previous generations are digitally competent, but they use these [...]

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The question What sort of adults will the children of the digital era become? (http://www.abc.net.au/tv/differenceofopinion/episodes/episode_11.htm) This got me thinking about similar questions asked of previous generations. The pre-home computer generation have a lot of trouble using computers. As computers came down in price, they became ubiquitous at home and work. The generation that grew up [...]

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I found Lee Raine’s article (http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/digitalnatives/index.htm) thought provoking, for example regarding how different he finds the millenium generation to their parents in their use of technology. I (along with other members of my generation) find these tools useful, but we did not grow up with them. For many of us the internet is the first port [...]

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