Soon, Both Students and Teachers Will Be (Online Learning) Digital Natives - Henry Kronk, eLearning Inside

Much has been made for nearly the last two decades about digital natives in the context of education. First described by Marc Plensky in a 2001 landmark essay published in On the Horizon, these are the learners that grew up in the digital age. They spent more hours as young people watching TV or playing video games than they did reading. And, as some continue to complain today, they’re taught by digital immigrants. (“As Digital Immigrants learn – like all immigrants, some better than others – to adapt to their environment, they always retain, to some degree, their “accent,” that is, their foot in the past,” Plensky writes.) Today, these terms and lines of thought are dated. A good deal, if not the majority, of teachers today at least grew up with Pacman or early word processors. But as dated as Plensky’s thesis is, it might be grafted onto a new dynamic: digital learners and digital teachers. https://news.elearninginside.com/digital-native-teachers/