Some points of the article that stuck out to me the most are as followed.

 How the article discussed how different the students of today or digital natives that grew up with technology always in their back pocket were from the educators of today or digital immigrants that did not always have technology but learned how to use it some. I found it particularly interesting as said in this quote from the article “different kinds of experiences lead to different brain structures”. The digital natives have changed extremely, and the digital immigrants can’t accept that they are fundamentally wired to think different. The digital natives force their way of thinking onto the digital natives thinking they are just the same as the students before them when they obviously are not.

The article discusses weather the old ways of teaching that the digital immigrants know or the new way of teaching that would adhere more to the digital natives would be a better method. Throughout the article it discusses multiple times how teachers are always thinking about past methods and struggling to teach students who are instilled to always look towards the future. Digital natives want to receive information fast and multi tasks while digital immigrants want to teach slowly with a step by step method. A quote that I found shocking that most teachers say was “My student just don’t fill in the blank like they used to.” This way of teaching leads to students thinking that’s its not worth paying attention to or even coming to school in some rare cases.

The last point I wanted to talk about was how the article talked about different ways the digital immigrant teaches could implement digital native teaching into their classrooms. They can teach legacy and future learning together. Legacy content includes the methods of the past while future content includes the technology and ideals of the future. With these combined teachers can use games that teach their subjects or other interactive computer things.

There are two very different sides of how the digital natives of today should be taught. On the one side the methods of the past worked before so why they wouldn’t work today but on the other side students are rapidly changing generation after generation and becoming more technologically savvy. Their brains are changing. They want to have a more fast and fun way of learning. While teachers want to rationalize how the past methods are working. While teachers also say in the article “this approach is great for facts, but it wouldn’t work for my subject” in accordance to playing games to learn content. School shouldn’t be all fun and games on the one hand, but school should also be stimulating.

To conclude my blog, I leave you with one question to ask yourself:

Will choosing to teach in more of the way digital natives think is good will lead to turmoil or will it become a universally excepted teaching method?

We should be more focused on what they believe will help them like digital components. 

The different sides of this article were reflected through students wanting to advance into the digital age and teachers wanting to teach with traditional strategies. The teachers represented wanted to stick with the ways they were using because they worked in the past so why wouldn’t they work now. The other side of the students wanting a more digitized education was reflected through the many way’s technology would be helpful in the classrooms. They could Receive info quickly from multiple media sources, or they could network simultaneously with others.

The main points of this article included constant exposure to digital media changed the way the digital generation of children process, interact and use information. Also, that educators need to step up. Meaning they need to start using more technology to teach students holistically. They also need to reevaluate how they test students. A third main point was that educators need to shift their teaching approaches to accommodate technology, group work and real-world education. When students collaborate in groups with the additive of technology they will better understand the topic taught. Also, when students use digital tools it helps them see how those tools will work in real world jobs or activities.

This article provokes many questions but the one I believe we should be most focused on is.

What should we be doing to advance our students into the 21^st century of digital learning?

The two sides of this article are reflected in this quote from the article “One of the biggest misconceptions today is that the new emphasis on technology in schools and popular culture will erode the traditional liberal arts education and reorient school so that it favors vocational, practical training (“just-in-case” knowledge) instead.” This is saying that if we switch to a more technology-based learning that it will teach students trends instead of classics. Parents nowadays want their children to have a well-rounded education. They do not want their children learning the newest fads through technology-based learning. In the article it talks about how in thinking that past education taught students better than present technology-based education is wrong. Past education taught through boring books while technology-based education creates more interactive education. A point that favors this from the article is as technology grows more and more sophisticated, we can bring intellectual products of human history to life. By using stimulation games students will get to be more immersed in learning. Another pro would be reading and writing, and research will be enhanced in dazzling ways. By using technology-based tools students will be able to track past work for later. They can pull up something from years ago instead of having to recall vaguely what it said. Surprisingly there’s more pros in this article and another one would be using an adaptive learning engine, students can ramp up quickly to expert work. Meaning as students get information faster they can quickly be more intellectual. Then another one would be Using personalized systems and online communities, students can develop tastes for intellectual products and explore niche interests like never before. Students will have better access to see what they really enjoy than ever before.

So, I leave you with the question   

Will you let your children become more advanced with technology or be stuck in the past?

 

The two sides I noticed that were talked about in the article are as followed. That much improvement has to be done in the quality of special educational technology research and training of teachers to learn how to uses the devices. Then that the system of assistive technology is distracting. The one side discusses that little research is being done in inclusive schools on assistive technology. Also, that few researchers are conducing well designed research. The assistive technology is not being made quick enough to match the rate of technological advances. These devices would be more helpful if there was a successful implementation of knowledgeable, and skillful special education teachers, and other teachers who were trained on said devices. The other side discusses the lack of a common vision and limited teacher training have reduced how much assistive technology really helps students. Also, that with limited evidence-based research teachers tend to make the decision about what assistive technology to use based upon software companies.

 

            Today the question I leave you with is what do you believe to be the best way to implement assistive technology in our school district to help students with learning disabilities?

 

 

 

            The two sides of this article are if social media should be used in school or not. The people who want to not use social media say that it is distracting and they are trying to prevent harmful activities. Also, that it helps control behavior, maintain safety, and improve short term productivity. The article is definitely biased towards using social media. It mentions that schools are trying to teach students to be 21^st century citizens and if you take away social media it defeats that purpose. Schools are neglecting to teach students for a digital world where citizenship is digital. It also mentions that social media can help students grow as digital citizens in a democracy. 

 

            The question this article invokes is will you allow social media to be intertwined in your curriculum to help students become better digital citizens ?