Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants .

a.     Who are Digital Immigrant teachers and Digital Native students as categorized by the author?

Digital Immigrant teachers is the people who were not born into the digital world but, have it in later in their live. And start to adopt or use it the technology in the late time of their live.

Digital native students are the people who use the digital language of computers, video games and internet. Also, they were born in the time the technology show.

b.     List down 3 differences between Digital Immigrant teachers and Digital Native students?

 

Digital Native students	Digital Immigrant teachers
The digital students used to receive the information very fast.	Immigrant teachers like to teach step- by-step.
The digital students prioritize random access.	They are very (serious) in the lesson time.
They chose games rather than be (serious) and work.	They acquired the skills through years of practice.

 

c.      What is meant by Digital immigrant accent? List down three examples of “digital immigrant accents.”

 The immigrant  accent is can be seen in such things as reconciliation to the internet is not the first solution to solve or help in education process may be  can be a second solution for them of course.

For example:

1.   Needing to print out a document written on the computer In order to edit it.

2.   Printing out your email.

3.   Bringing people physically into your office to see an interesting website.

d.     According to the author, what is the biggest serious problem facing education today?

The biggest problem from the author view is the deep hole between the teachers and who use the old school way and the students who use technology. And those students find that the way that teachers used is old and boring.  

e.      “Should the Digital Natives learn the old way, or should their Digital Immigrants learn the new?”

Unfortunately, the digital students can't back forward or the immigrant teachers can be a digital native. But, the immigrant can try to (walk with the river) on another word, to learn the new things in digital world and in same time try to teach the students with their style of teach.

f.      What should the Digital Immigrant educators really want to reach Digital Natives?

They will have to change and try to do it and as the Nike Motto of the digital generation says," Just do it". So, they will succeed with time but, they need more time to learn and to administrators to support them.