Digital Natives, Digitial Immigrants

With a new age in teaching ahead of us, we need to make sure the teachers are using technology, (i.e. computers, internet), that is at their fingertips as much as possible.  Students will pick up information in a classroom by the use technology.  The students will likely be digital natives.  Meaning they will have grown up using technological devices in all facets of their life.  The digital immigrant is usually the teacher who has not learned the changes in technology because it was not a part of their lives growing up and is not a part of their daily lives.   They need to learn the latest technology in order to help them communicate with their students. When I was growing up the changes in technology were that we started using computers instead of typewriters to do our research papers.  There was no internet.  We still had to look up information in a book.  The main strategy a teacher can use is to engage the students with encouraging them to use their knowledge of technology in order to do the assignment.  The students will find their knowledge of a subject grow and the teacher will learn new ways to integrate technology into their classroom.