Forward ~ Technologies have possibilities and limitations
(or “affordances”), but they do not produce social change in themselves.
Chapter 1. ~ Technology, Education and
the Discourse of the Digital Native
Between Evangelist and Dissenters by
Michael Thomas.
I was surprised when I read that students
were not allowed to use technology for fear of distraction in the classrooms.
Students were died access to up to date education in a law school this is a
normalized part of daily learning at all levels of schooling not just law school.
Kids use their phones to access translators, calculators, and research material
for classes.
I think a lot has happened with
digital media since 2001 through 2010. On
Page 4 it states that in the last two decades more people use the internet it
goes on to give statistics about the last five years. So that leads me to think
if so many people (uncategorized by age) are on online and using the world wide
web then why are we waiting to get more internet access into our learning communities.
As educator we already know that we must prepare students for 21st
Century learning in hope that they do not fall behind when it comes to
technology. This cannot be an ongoing struggle with students and teacher but instead
a collaboration of network with how appropriate digital media can be incorporated
into the classrooms with clear lessons and direction. Making the digital native
a digital learner of more than just reading and writing.
Chapter 2. ~ Digital
Wisdom and Homo Sapiens Digital by Marc Prensky
As technology
becomes more sophisticated with continuous change, developing the capacity to
help us make moral and ethical choices as well as more pragmatic decisions,
what we call "human wisdom" will reach new levels. This will open
gateways to enhancing our access to data, deeper analyses, and the ability to
plan and prioritize. Page 25 explains it best Digital wisdom arises the
combination of the mind and digital tools; what the unenhanced mind loses by outsourcing
it will more than make up by the wisdom gained. Can digital wisdom be taught? I
am going to say yes, after all isn’t that why we are in this class?
Chapter 3. ~
Students the Net Generation, and Digital Natives – Accounting for Educational
Change by Chris Jones
Great chapter
I like the way it begins it opens with “the existence of an environment (the
world within to a world outside or as we know it) infused with digital and
networked technologies (such as the young and the old), combined with an active
engagement in these new technologies, leads directly to sharp generational
break. Sums up chapter one and two. Does it really matter what name classification
are being given to young people who are active or advanced users of the digital
age. I have no preference to either the digital native, digital immigrant or
the net generation as long as we are using wisdom and ethical language to communicate
in the world of digital media.
As for collaborative
learning, this must be an ongoing effort with everyone if we are to facilitate
conversations of growth, transmission of knowledge and cooperation with the use
of digital media in and out of school
.
Visual Metaphor:
I chose this picture becasue knowedge is the portal to understanding new and old things. Society changes and so does digital media and just like we must adapt to changes in the physical word so should we adapt to the digital meadi age. This all takes the willingness to learn in order to achieve knowledge.
