"Speed" makes you learn.

I had the opportunity (and so my classmates) to read an article about Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives, written by Mark Prensky. These two categories of people who are interacting, one way or another, with technology, are nowadays interacting between them. The context in which we are interested in is the classroom, and in this article is clearly stated (and I agree with the author, by the way) that we, teachers, being Digital Immigrants, have to change in order to be in the same page our Digital Native students are.

In his article (you can find it here), Mark Prensky claims "Digital Immigrants typically have very little appreciation for these new skills that the Natives have acquired and perfected through years of interaction and practice." I don't think the following Digital immigrant lady has little appreciation for technology (hahaha!). Here is the evidence that the "Speedy lady" finds it utterly fascinating. Now, she is an example to follow and that is why we should try to do our best so that we can work together with our students without feeling the fear of being "consumed" by those Digital Natives.

Watch this video and tell me ... Are you a Digital Native or a Digital Immigrant?

I guess everybody knows her :D