<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alida Bonotto</b> <<a href="mailto:abono@mira.net">abono@mira.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I've heard Prensky and MacKenzie speaking live and I found Prensky more
convincing. Prensky is a little too black and white with his
native/immigrants theory - but I see examples of his theory in action
every day at school.....</div></blockquote><div><br><br>I lean the same way as Alida on this one<br>
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MacKenzie is better researched than Prensky but in the presentation I heard from him
he was appealing to the lowest common denominator - what computer
software that is useful could all teachers "get"?<br>
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Answer: Inspiration<br>
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Useful but not very inspiring<br>
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MacKenzies quoting of TS Elliot in describing the lost digital
generation is clever but over the top, exaggerated. He then cites
Sherry Turkle in support. I interpreted Turkles book in the opposite
way - she really was talking about computers and their effect on the
human spirit not warning us how dangerous it all was.<br>
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Who needs TS Elliot - slash your wrists - but better leave that one for the English teachers :-)<br>
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Bill Kerr<br>
<a href="http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/">http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/</a><br>
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><span class="q"><a href="mailto:rie@bigpond.net.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
rie@bigpond.net.au</a> wrote:
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<pre>Hello All<br><br>Just wanted throw this back into the mix, Jamie McKenzie has done a very interesting piece on Digital Natives and the popularist work of Marc Prensky. <a href="http://fno.org/nov07/nativism.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://fno.org/nov07/nativism.html</a>
How much do we really know about how students are using technology in all aspects of their lives and how does this relate to teachers in the classroom?
Ilana Snyder did a piece on reading e-learning research which is very helpful. <a href="http://jbowes.edublogs.org/2005/11/05/illana-snyder-critical-reading-of-e-learning-research/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://jbowes.edublogs.org/2005/11/05/illana-snyder-critical-reading-of-e-learning-research/</a>
Regards
Anne-Marie
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The University of Western Australia
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