digital+natives+part+2+8-19

Students(Natives) of today learn and process differently than those who are the teachers(Immigrants).Digital Natives possess different thinking patterns because their brains may have physically evolved differently from the Digital Immigrants. For example, Natives have spent 10,000 hours of playing video games and 20,000 hours of watching TV, while spending only 5,000 hours of reading.

The Natives laugh at the Immigrants "accent" because they realize their teachers aren't as informed as they should be about the new style of technological learning.Students prefer multi-tasking and parallel processing; whereas, teachers prefer step by step instruction.The whole point is this: Today's teachers have to learn to communicate in the language and styl of their students.