Assignment 3

Assignment 3

a.       Who are Digital Immigrant teachers and Digital Native students as categorized by the author?

Digital Immigrant teachers are those teachers who think or assume  that learners are the same as they have always been, and that the same methods that worked for the teachers when they were students will work for their students now.

the people sitting in their classes grew up on the “twitch speed” of video games and MTV.

Digital Native students: are the students in the system  of the traditional fashion.

b.      List down 3 differences between Digital Immigrant teachers and Digital Native students?

 Digital Immigrant teachers:

1.they speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age).

2. Digital Immigrants don't believe their students can learn successfully while watching TV or listening to music, because they (the Immigrants) can't.

3. Digital Immigrants think learning can't (or shouldn't) be fun.

 Digital Native students:

1. they can recive the information quickly from multimedia sources.

2.they like to learn with kind of  fun.

3.they like to contribute working with others.

 

c.       What is meant by Digital immigrant accent? List down three examples of “digital immigrant accents.”?

Digital immigrant accent can be seen in such things as turning to the Internet for information second rather than first, or in reading the manual for a program rather than assuming that the program itself will teach us to use it. They include printing out our emails, "did you get my email " in phone call, going step by step using outlines for organization, reading manuals, etc..

d.      According to the author, hat is the biggest serious problem facing education today?

is that our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language.

e.       “Should the Digital Natives learn the old way, or should their Digital Immigrants learn the new?”

just forget about educating Digital Natives until they grow up and do it themselves, we had better confront this issue. we need to reconsider both our methodology and our content.

f.       What should the Digital Immigrant educators really want to reach Digital Natives?

-  As educators, we need to be thinking about how to teach both Legacy and Future content in the language of the Digital Natives. The first involves a major translation and change of methodology; the second involves all that PLUS new content and thinking.

- we have to invent, but not necessarily from scratch. Adapting materials to the language of Digital Natives has already been done successfully.

- We need to invent Digital Native methodologies for all subjects, at all levels, using our students to guide us.

- All their students will have to change. It's high time for them to stop their grousing, and as the Nike motto of the Digital Native generation says, “Just do it!” They will succeed in the long run – and their successes will come that much sooner if their administrators support them.

“How can blogs, wikis and delicious be used in the Saudi EFL context?” Please do not answer in general. Specify activities.

It is useful for both teachers and students in learning purposes. and used as  material to contribute and facilitate learning a second language. For instance, in my collage we use to share various of  information's through these kinds of websites to support and engaged each other in learning English and being as native speakers. 

wiki :  is the simplest collaborative content management system that could possibly work.

delicious:  is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarkrs.

blogger:  is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries.