Are My Students Digital Natives or Digital Immigrants?

Please listen to my very first podcast as I had the pleasure of interviewing a few of my students after conducting a classwide survey of technology use. It was rather interesting to see through my students the concepts discussed in our resources this week. The number of children that just remember technology always being available and always having access to a computer and even remembering or being told by parents as early as two or three years of age was rather surprising to me. All of the students pointed out that they do not use technology in school near the amount of time outside of school, yet interestingly this did not seem to be surprising to them. The children just mentioned it as if this is how life is supposed to be.

The children I interviewed through Audacity were Susie C., Alyssa P. and Ronnie P. and they are all middle school students. I will attach the written survey that I submitted to my students via email but only have added clips to my podcast of my interviews. As a rookie to podcasting, I must warn that my clips are not flowing as well as I like but this too will get better as this "semi-digital native" continues to practice with this media.



MY PODCAST click on this link to hear this weeks podcast.


My technology survey click on this link to view my technology survey.


RESOURCES:

Dretzin, R., & Maggio, J. (Producers), & Dretzin, R. (Writer). (2008, January 22). Growing up online. [Television broadcast]. Boston: PBS Frontline. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/

November, A. (2007). Banning student 'containers'. Technology & Learning. Retrieved fromhttp://www.techlearning.com/article/7468

Marc Prensky. (2001). Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part 1. On the Horizon, 9(5), 1-6. Retrieved July 29, 2009, from ProQuest Education Journals. (Document ID: 1074252411).

Marc Prensky. (2001). Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part 2: Do They Really Think Differently? On the Horizon, 9(6), 1-6. Retrieved July 29, 2009, from ProQuest Education Journals. (Document ID: 1074252431).

McHale, T. (2005). Portrait of a digital native. Technology & Learning. Retrieved fromDate Modified: 29 Jul 09 7:37 PM MST