Digital+Natives+part+1+p4

It is not about "old dogs learning new tricks" or "out with the old and in with the new"(1) Its about all in education, students and teachers, digital natives and immigrants learning from eachother to be multi-faceted educators and learners. Though that is the goal, getting to the goal is really the challenge, which requires not only education but willingness to learn and apply from the digital immagrants.

Mechanical engineers between the ages of 20 - 30 struggled learning a new software. Do to their age, the marketers decided to create a game. Dr. Monkey Wrench was a game created to train mechanic engineers a new computer-aided design (CAD).

Once the game was created (though it took way longer than expected) it was the best they had seen, and worked well. What is required though is an open mind and lots of time.

All subjects can be incorporated if the instructor is willing and creative. It would work for our own structure in IrvingISD, if applied what administration is expecting to our own planning and creating processes. Example: Set up a "digital meeting" where teachers can collaborate online (obviously monitored) and logistics are in posted. And have think-tanks, resulting in "meetings" that go over information that could be sent in text.

(1)--> //Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part 1.// On the Horizon. Sept/October 2001. Volume9, Number 5. Marc Prensky.