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Page 1 of the article "Digital Natives" introduces the fundamental cause of the so-called decline of education in the USA. Students have radically changed, and it isn't referring to clothes, taste, hair, slang, etc. Today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach due to the arrival and rapid dissemination of digital technology. Today's students think and process information fundamentally different from their predeccessors. Some people refer to these technology-driven students as N-gen (for net generation) or D-gen (for digital generation), but this article prefers the name Digital Natives.

"...students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach." - implying that we need to change the way we teach them. This is because they are digital natives, having grown up surrounded by technology. They think differently because of their interaction with it. Some speculate that their brains have physically changed. We teachers, as a generation who can still remember days before the internet, are Digital Immigrants, having to learn/adapt to this new environment.

Prensky, Marc. "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part 1." __On the Horizon__ 9.5 (2001): 2-6.