Chelsea+Morgan

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I think there will always be digital natives and digital immigrants. I think the generation that's below us is already making us digital immigrants. Two year olds are using iPads and iPhones and learning how to play games on them. Just thinking about what they will get their hands on and learn to understand by the time they are 21 kind of excites me. I guess our generation grew up with not as much technology as there is today, which is maybe why in some of us there is still the need to use actual notebooks and paper, but we have basically adapted to our surroundings and have become more tech savvy. And us being the digital native group it seems like we know what we are talking about when it comes to technology which makes me believe that there won't be a really distinct difference between digital natives and immigrants in the future like it is today with us and our parents. My parents are really //not// good with computers, it is actually funny. And the example I liked the best from the article was when Prensky talks about the guy in the office wanting to show everyone a cool website so he invites everyone in his office instead of just sending them the URL and how he says you can tell the "digital immigrant accent". It will be hard though to have technology in schools (even in the future), I think it would be a great thing if possible, but I think it would be difficult since schools already don't get the funds they need. Some kids may not have the money at home to get their hands on the technology to become familiar, so having it in schools would be awesome, but in most cases impossible. Overall, I believe that there will always be digital natives and digital immigrants, but in the future there won't be a huge difference. -Chelsea

Your first few sentences sum it up for me. I consider myself to be a pretty tech-savvy person, but I had to have a 5-year-old teach me to use an iPhone for the first time! He had been using his mom's for a year or two so it wasn't a big deal for him, but I was blown away by his proficiency at something I couldn't figure out at first! - Amanda Colburn

I completely agree with you on how the generation below us is starting to turn our generation in Digital Immigrants. My Cousin who is only 7 years old knows how to work all of my Aunt's electronic devices, including her phone, computer, iPod, and iPad. My parents are also really bad with technology, especially my mom who doesn't even know how to create an email, so i thought it was humorous when Prensky was almost making fun of today's Digital Immigrants for their lack of ability to use technology. - Casey Sneider

I agree that children are learning to use technology at an astonishing pace. By being exposed at such a young age these generations will definitely have an upper hand on the newest technologies to come; however, I also believe that our generation will understand the appreciation and abilities that younger generations have developed. There may always be a difference in between the younger generations and our generation but the gap will be far less than today's gaps between Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants of today. I also am excited to see the progress that the children of today will make by the time they are our age. Hopefully I will be able to keep up! -Adam Daniels

Tux Math, Camtasia, Algebra 1 Explorer Make it something that everyone can see, make it authentic (they will work harder) cubit lesson

for LP: use real world situations -clicker -google docs -one-on-one quizzes -google earth? -math tool kit for smart boards

http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/classrooms_for_the_future_(ed_hub)/8911