Digital Immigrant teachers and Digital Natives

 

       From time to time changing techniques and methods used by humans to the lookout for new knowledge and electronic digital life are evidences of these changes. The people who were working on the technology found that technical filed is divided in to two. They are categorized as Digital Immigrant teachers and Digital Native students.

Firstly, the digital immigrant is the person who was born before the existence of digital technology and adopted it to some extent later in life. Secondly, the digital Native students are the people who are all “native speakers” of the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet.

 

There are a lot of differences between digital immigrant teachers and digital native students. The digital Immigrant teachers come with self-education, a lot of patience, and they like to learnstep-by-step. One the other hand, the digital native studentsare receiving information really fast, like parallel process and multi-task, and they prefer their graphics before their text rather than the opposite.

 

The digital immigrant accent means the people who used to turning to the internet for information. Furthermore; they prefer in reading the manual for a program rather than assuming that the program itself will teach us how to use it. For examples, they use to send the URL links by email rather than to share it with other by using a delicious or the edmodo or they may not know about them either, also they need to print out a document written on the computer in order to edit it (rather than just editing on the screen, and they still are usingold methods of lecturing and teaching.

 

In the field of education there are a lot of problems. One of these problems is that teachers who are not on the experience in the area of these new technologies insist on teaching originally. They feel more settled and familiar with it and comfortable with enough traditional way of experience most of the times.

 

A strong competition between the rejection of digital natives to deals with the old ways of their teaching methods, and the persistent of digital immigrants with their old ways of teachingI think that the quality of education must be the goal for both sides and the digital immigrants have to introduce themselves to the newworld, so they can help others and help those in need of their expertise.

 

If the digital immigrant educators really want to reach digital natives they have to follow up the methodology and the content of the digital natives. Moreover; they have to learn how to communicate in the language and style of their students.

 

     Finally, I’m very happy because I live on days where every thing became much easier and I’m proud because I'm one of the digital natives.