Reflection Day 1

Day 1.

As a saying  “Better late than never”; by keeping the above said in mind, I have chosen this module wholeheartedly so that I can learn something and give support to the digital native students of the 21^st century.

On the first day our tutor, Mr. Changa Dorji started presenting the work plan and briefed on assessment of the module. I was very excited to know that I am going to learn the thing I have never heard or experiences before. In course of time, I tried to interact with my tutor and friends in order to learn and get clear concept of the topic that I am learning.

We are also taught through video clip on Digital Native VS Digital immigrant. I came to know the different between digital native vs. digital immigrants. Some of the differences I came across are:

Digital Native	Digital Immigrant
Born after 1980	Born before 1980
·         Prefer receiving information quickly from multiple multimedia sources ·         Prefer parallel processing and multitasking. ·         Prefer processing pictures, sounds and video before text. ·         Prefer to learn “just –in-time”	·         Prefer slow and controlled release of information from limited sources. ·         Prefer singular processing and single or limited tasking. ·         Prefer to provide text before pictures, sounds and video. ·         Prefer to teach “just –in-case”(it’s on the exam)

 After watching video clips and hearing from our tutor, I felt we the digital immigrant should learned lots of things to cater to the digital native students. As a teacher for 21^st century students we should redefining our teaching and learning process through graphic (audio and visual). Moreover teachers should teach class without using paper, chalk and chalkboard in order to introduce more technology to our students, so that the children won’t feel boring in our teaching. But lots of teachers still lack the skills to teach current teenagers in the way they are familiar with and can understand. Lots of information is coming to them via the internet and everything they do is through the technology; the learning, the reading, downloading and listening to music, writing, designing and most importantly; communicating with the world. And if everything teenager do is through the technology, why then is there so little taught through the technology. It’s time for change. We know that things are changing at an ever increasing rate and will continue to do so in the lives of our children, so we need to be role model for lifelong learning.

Now we as a 21^st century teacher should accept the embedded performance of our youngsters and adjust accordingly. Then they will be motivated to learn.