Digital+Natives

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====A Digital Natives is a person for whom digital technologies already existed when they were born, and hence has grown up with digital technology such as computers, the Internet, mobile phones and MP3s. A digital immigrant is an individual who grew up without digital technology and adopted it later [|en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_natives]====

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From On the Horizon (MCB University Press, Vol. 9 No. 5, October 2001) © 2001 Marc Prensky======

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//"Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach////."// =====

Prensky, M. (2001). “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants”. In //On the Horizon//, October 2001, 9 (5). Lincoln: NCB University Press. **[|Part 1]** & **[|Part 2]**

**How do The Digital Natives Learn Best?**
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Does School Still Matter?
"Technology must be like oxygen. Ubiquitous, necessary, and invisible."
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 * **Research**
 * **Collaborate**
 * **Present**
 * **Network** ||

"Let's never forget how important teachers are."

"What if we dared kids to think school wasn't preparation for real life. School was real life."

"Classes must not be silos. They must be lens though which we view the world."

Chris Lehmann: Beyond Tools: Thoughtful 21st-Century School Reform
 * **Research** || **Collaborate** || **Create** || **Network** || **Present** ||
 * RSS || [|Wikis] || Blogging || [|Twitter] || [|uStream] ||
 * [|Del.icio.us] || Google Docs || [|Comics] || [|Skype] || [|Flickr] ||
 * [|Google] || [|Moodle] || Podcasting || [|Facebook] || [|iTunes U] ||
 * [|Wikipedia] || [|Writeboard] || Digital Films || [|IM] || [|Voicethread] ||
 * [|Dropbox] || [|Twiddla] || [|Wordle] || [|Ning] || Screecasting ||