Digital Natives V.S. Digital Immigrants

    From reading Prensky's article it was made clear that there is a big difference between Digital Natives those that have known nothing but technology in their lifetime and digital immigrants those who are playing catch up to learn new technologies. The natives learn best through using technology do to their wanting information right now and how they do not like using the old technology such as writing stuff down.  According to Prensky a lot of immigrants do not want to use these technologies because that is not how learning has been done in the past.  He explains legacies and how this is the old way of the thinking and that we need to move into the future which is heavily digital.  He explains how computer programs can be used to teach new learning skills such as using simulations to have students experience how it may have felt like in a holocaust concentration camp.
            I see the good that these simulations can bring to the native learners. That this is how the students of the future will learn best.  I hope to incorporate these simulations into my classroom but also to teach my students that it is important not to forget the importance of communicating directly with people and that it helps when you actually talk to someone and that these computer simulations could also been done in class with actual interactions with other students.
            I am looking forward to hopefully look into some of these programs through the course of the class to see how they work and to become familiar with them so that I am not left to far behind as the technology wave keeps moving forward.