Digital natives and immigrants
We
discussed on use of technologies in the classroom, paradigm shift in
educational philosophy, then digital natives and immigrants. It is very
important to use technologies in the classroom since ICT in education develops children’s
cognitive skills, collaboration, knowledge retention, and individual learning. According to experienced teachers who use ICT in
their classrooms, that ICT may make the classroom controlling more effortless
because ICT provides materials that make the class more interesting and easy to
control (Cox and Webb, 2003).
ICT assisted students to be more creative in their learning
process and it is beneficial to support problem-solving by using different ICT
facilities such as software programs (word documents, PowerPoint and YouTube).
Today, learners have thousands of resources by using ICT in condition while
sitting in their home not by searching for knowledge in libraries.
Presentations became visual and auditory for students in addition to using software
programs like PowerPoint. However, all these factors need effective teachers
and management or administrators to apply and achieve these effective benefits
on students.
We have also discussed the digital natives and digital
immigrants where we were asked to share our views on this topic online. Many
have shared their views on this topic and for me, I understood that the digital
natives are those who were born in the 21st century where there is
advanced in technologies and getting children get an opportunity to explore and
experience a different kind of technologies from kindergarten to colleges.
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the other point, digital immigrants are those people who were born without much
knowledge on technologies but get an opportunity to learn later in life.
To have a fun and enjoyable classroom setting, it is
vital for teacher to have an activity for the kids whether using ICT or without
ICT instead of giving lecture throughout the session.
Hii Yuden, Your reflection is inspiring . People reading your post will never regretof spending time. The language you have used to express your reflection is comprehensible. Well done!
ReplyDeleteGreat work Yuden,The research you did on the usage of ICT in classroom was a valid point but juts want to add one thing, anyone born in this 21st century is not a digital native because lots of place are not accessible with internet facility and many children in the remote are still left out.So its hard to say that anyone born in this 21st century is a digital native.Other wise I appreciate your good work.
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