21st Century Learner's
Who are they and how can we accommodate them into our classrooms?
They are students who are shaped by their environment. The environment they are exposed to, is media rich, immediate, fast, engaging, dynamic and instant. It's electronic and digital, it's a communication medium with instant gratification. Marc Prensky, described the array of media the students are exposed to in his papers on Digital Natives (Prensky, 2001 )
This is not all of youth today; many still struggle to gain education, to have a classroom to be taught in or to have even seen a computer, let alone used one. Nor is it limited to just students, adults too, can be "Digital Natives" as their brains, like the brains of our students, will adapt with exposure to technology.
This is not all of youth today; many still struggle to gain education, to have a classroom to be taught in or to have even seen a computer, let alone used one. Nor is it limited to just students, adults too, can be "Digital Natives" as their brains, like the brains of our students, will adapt with exposure to technology.
Video used with permission from D. Flower. Digital Resource made for the purpose of this assignment.