Position paer - Task 9 -- Group One - 2011 CEI course

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Date Posted: 19:35:48 03/29/11 Tue
Author: Tati Miranda
Subject: Position paer - Task 9

Position paper – Task 9

According to Marc Prensky, “Our students today are all “native speakers” of the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet” (Prensky, 2001, p. 1).
Taking this into consideration, we, teachers, should adapt our lessons according to our student´s era. If we are not digital natives, we should be changing into interested imigrants, “struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language” (p. 2).
Our students do not have patience enough for a lecture or instructions in the classroom, “they are used only to the instantaneity of hypertext, downloaded music, phones in their pockets, a library on their laptops, beamed messages and instant messaging. They have been networked most or all of their lives” (p. 3), so that they can not be forced to learn in a different era, because they will not be involved and able to do such a “torment” for them. “My own preference for teaching Digital Natives is to invent computer games to do the job, even for the most serious content” (p. 4).
The use of a WebQuest in classroom is a great tool if you want to integrate the digital era and increase your student´s motivation. You can do whatever you want, according to a programmed subject or topic using a n environment they are used to. And you can also have them as your monitors.“We need to invent Digital Native methodologies for all subjects, at all levels, using our students to guide us” (p. 6).
Summarizing this discussion, what we have to know and, especially, put in pratice, is stop thinking how good things were and start working on something to help your student´s motivation, integration and showing them that they can be useful in the classroom, they are allowed to show in class what they know and share the knowledge with teachers and colleagues.

Reference:

PRENSKY, Marc. Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants. In: On the Horizon. NCB University Press, vol. 9 no. 5, October 2001.

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