"Digital Natives?"

The first article in Educational Leadership's December 2005/January 2006 issue that we read is called "Listen to the Natives" by Marc Prensky.

This article makes a call for teachers to enter the 21st Century by utilizing the day’s technology to better instruct their students. The term “digital native” is introduced, referring to “today’s students (2001). They are native speakers in technology, fluent in the digital language of computers, video games, and the Internet.” They are contrasted with “digital immigrants,” meaning “those of us who were not born into the digital age.” The article goes on to say that educators, who are all “digital immigrants” on account of our age, must reconfigure our approach to teaching to better accommodate today’s students’ digital way of learning.

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