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Alberto Guia ET8008 Week 1 Assignment 1.5 I think we by now all heard of the term “digital natives” (Prensky, 2005) and how the 21st Century Learner is more digitally advance than the teachers who teach them. I can honestly say that this is not the case in my campus. I see over 1,000 students on a bi-weekly basis and the vast majority talk about having computer and laptops at home in which they have their MySpace, Facebook, and Moco Space accounts. When I begin instruction and bark out commonly used terms search and computer terms they are all looking around at each other and have no idea what I’m talking about. When my students are done with their work they are sometimes granted free time on the computer to play educational games and they have no clue on how to get on or where to go on the Internet. Looking back of chapter one from ISTE’s Technology Facilitation and Leadership Standards I can tell that much more time needs to be spent on the computer basics, just like in core classes, on terminology. I think students need to know what the computer words, or lingo, and how to properly distinguish varies computer basic parts, both internal and external, and terms dealing with the Internet and searches. If the student knows the basics then they can develop and synthesize to understand harder and more complex computer concepts. Williamson, J. & Redish, T. (2009). //Technology facilitation and leadership standards: What every K-12 leader should know and be able to do//. Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education. Prensky, Marc (2005). //Listen to the Digital Natives.// Educational Leadership, Dec/Jan. 2006, Vol. 63, Issue 4, pages. 8-13.
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