“Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” by Marc Prensky

Article: Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants

The article “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” by Marc Prensky highly supports the ways 'digital natives' generation are effectively adopting technology in their everyday lives. Replacing a legacy content of the course material, for future education with digital technology. Prensky disregards the teaching methods used by 'digital immigrants' generation. Prensky talks about digital natives generation finding the current education system slow and boring since it is a generation that craves for instant gratification. I disagree with Prensky's idea and feel that the education system should be carried on the way it was before. Although no doubt that technology is embedded in everyone's everyday life whether it be digital natives or digital immigrant, but not each and every bit of knowledge for digital natives should be presented in technological savvy manner. Since, in order for a human to develop his/ her brain, stimulation is necessary, which cannot be granted by sticking with one method for both acquiring educational knowledge and entertainment. In an attempt to present all the reduced, minimized version of information and in order to keep students from 'possibly' getting bored, the attention span and ability to stay focused on one task for long of the digital natives generation will be compromised. The 'traditional' educational methods not only provide the theory of course material in a broad manner but also keeps brain on the track of efficiently absorbing theory material, remaining focused, helping build cognitive performance. Although technology should be embedded into the education system, as it is currently, in order to keep up with society, but adding more to every part of it as suggested by Prenksy would take away the hidden or unhidden advantages provided to us by 'traditional' educational system.