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iting which article or study he has in mind. He makes it seem like Perry is supporting his claim that growing up digitally will change the brains of the young.
What did Perry actually say? His work is focused on tr
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29 Nov 14
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With an insulting tone worthy of the original American nativists who hated immigrants (especially Catholic ones), Marc Prensky speaks of pre-iPod humans (digital immigrants) contemptuously. (Prensky's work)
In a rather shallow piece lacking in evidence or data, Prensky offers the terms "digital natives" and "digital immigrants" to set up a generational divide. His proposition is simple-minded. He paints digital experience as wonderful and old ways as worthless. He lumps people together by nothing more than age and exposure, spending little time on differentiating or understanding. He offers learning with video games as a digital Nirvana that should replace forms of learning that he claims are now outmoded.
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31 Oct 14
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Those leading the digital surge are quick to exile older folks to a dust bin of irrelevancy simply because they were born before the iPod.
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02 Sep 14
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Those leading the digital surge are quick to exile older folks to a dust bin of irrelevancy simply because they were born before the iPod
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09 Aug 14
jdcadyArguments against Marc Prensky
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Prensky's Digital Nativism
With an insulting tone worthy of the original American nativists who hated immigrants (especially Catholic ones), Marc Prensky speaks of pre-iPod humans (digital immigrants) contemptuously. (Prensky's work)
In a rather shallow piece lacking in evidence or data, Prensky offers the terms "digital natives" and "digital immigrants" to set up a generational divide. His proposition is simple-minded. He paints digital experience as wonderful and old ways as worthless. He lumps people together by nothing more than age and exposure, spending little time on differentiating or understanding. He offers learning with video games as a digital Nirvana that should replace forms of learning that he claims are now outmoded.
Thinly Supported Claim #1 - A really big discontinuity! "Today’s students have not just changed incrementally from those of the past, nor simply changed their slang, clothes, body adornments, or styles, as has happened between generations previously. A really big discontinuity has taken place."
Throughout his article Prensky makes similar grandiose claims that are entirely unsubstantiated with any evidence. He presents no data or studies to back up a central thesis of his paper.
A really big discontinuity? How big? His casual language signals sloppy research and thinking. Arcade scholarship. Hip. Clever. Glib. Wrong.
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08 Aug 14
jnharris92This provides a very clear comparison of Prensky's article.
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Being born into a culture saturated with things digital
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09 Feb 14
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With an insulting tone worthy of the original American nativists who hated immigrants (especially Catholic ones), Marc Prensky speaks of pre-iPod humans (digital immigrants) contemptuously. (Prensky's work)
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In a rather shallow piece lacking in evidence or data, Prensky offers the terms "digital natives" and "digital immigrants" to set up a generational divide. His proposition is simple-minded. He paints digital experience as wonderful and old ways as worthless. He lumps people together by nothing more than age and exposure, spending little time on differentiating or understanding. He offers learning with video games as a digital Nirvana that should replace forms of learning that he claims are now outmoded.
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07 Feb 14
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In a rather shallow piece lacking in evidence or data, Prensky offers the terms "digital natives" and "digital immigrants" to set up a generational divide. His proposition is simple-minded. He paints digital experience as wonderful and old ways as worthless. He lumps people together by nothing more than age and exposure, spending little time on differentiating or understanding. He offers learning with video games as a digital Nirvana that should replace forms of learning that he claims are now outmoded
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07 Jan 14
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With an insulting tone worthy of the original American nativists who hated immigrants (especially Catholic ones), Marc Prensky speaks of pre-iPod humans (digital immigrants) contemptuously. (Prensky's work)
In a rather shallow piece lacking in evidence or data, Prensky offers the terms "digital natives" and "digital immigrants" to set up a generational divide. His proposition is simple-minded. He paints digital experience as wonderful and old ways as worthless. He lumps people together by nothing more than age and exposure, spending little time on differentiating or understanding. He offers learning with video games as a digital Nirvana that should replace forms of learning that he claims are now outmoded.
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Quick to stereotype generations, Prensky lumps all young ones together as digital natives even though reports like "Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8–18 Year-0lds" issued by the Kaiser Family Foundation paint a far more complex portrait and base their comments on data gathered through surveys. His stereotypes and sweeping comments seem fabricated through personal observations, strong bias and wishful thinking.
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06 Oct 13
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Being born into a culture saturated with things digital
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10 Sep 13
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Being born into a culture saturated with things digital is not a complete blessing despite the eager claims of digital drum majors and pied pipers. Neither is such immersion an automatic state of grace.
Those leading the digital surge are quick to exile older folks to a dust bin of irrelevancy simply because they were born before the iPod. Their point of view is harsh and ill informed. Their stance is unsubstantiated by evidence and is little more than digital delusion. They are guilty of "arcade scholarship" - analysis that is superficial and cartoonish.
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10 Aug 13
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Digital Nativism
By Jamie McKenzie
Digital Delusions
and Digital Deprivation
About authorBeing born into a culture saturated with things digital is not a complete blessing despite the eager claims of digital drum majors and pied pipers. Neither is such immersion an automatic state of grace.
Those leading the digital surge are quick to exile older folks to a dust bin of irrelevancy simply because they were born before the iPod. Their point of view is harsh and ill informed. Their stance is unsubstantiated by evidence and is little more than digital delusion. They are guilty of "arcade scholarship" - analysis that is superficial and cartoonish. -
Thinly Supported Claim #1 - A really big discontinuity! "Today’s students have not just changed incrementally from those of the past, nor simply changed their slang, clothes, body adornments, or styles, as has happened between generations previously. A really big discontinuity has taken place."
Throughout his article Prensky makes similar grandiose claims that are entirely unsubstantiated with any evidence. He presents no data or studies to back up a central thesis of his paper.
A really big discontinuity? How big? His casual language signals sloppy research and thinking. Arcade scholarship. Hip. Clever. Glib. Wrong.
Prensky's Brave New World of Video Game Learning
It is amusing to note Prensky's unbridled enthusiasm for learning via video games. Without addressing any of the serious negatives associated with the violence and negative consequences of such games, he sells them as the new learning medium best suited to his young digital natives.
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14 Jul 13
Megan McGlamery"Prensky's Digital Nativism
With an insulting tone worthy of the original American nativists who hated immigrants (especially Catholic ones), Marc Prensky speaks of pre-iPod humans (digital immigrants) contemptuously. (Prensky's work)
In a rather shallow piece lacking in evidence or data, Prensky offers the terms "digital natives" and "digital immigrants" to set up a generational divide. His proposition is simple-minded. He paints digital experience as wonderful and old ways as worthless. He lumps people together by nothing more than age and exposure, spending little time on differentiating or understanding. He offers learning with video games as a digital Nirvana that should replace forms of learning that he claims are now outmoded."
Note: Let me just add that this is exactly how I had been feeling towards the article we had been assigned to read. If I had been asked to write a paper on it, it would have looked a lot like this. I, too, found the article insulting and I was filled with questions he did not answer in his article. I propose all places of education stop using this article as a teaching tool. -
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Digital Nativism
By Jamie McKenzie
Digital Delusions
and Digital Deprivation
About authorBeing born into a culture saturated with things digital is not a complete blessing despite the eager claims of digital drum majors and pied pipers. Neither is such immersion an automatic state of grace.
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things digital is not a complete blessing despite the eager claims of digital drum majors and pied pipers. Neither is such immersion an automatic state of grace.
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uick to exile older folks to a dust bin of irrelevancy simply because they were born before the iPod
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Prensky offers the terms "digital natives" and "digital immigrants" to set up a generational divide. His proposition is simple-minded.
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digital experience as wonderful and old ways as worthless. He lumps people together by nothing more than age and exposure, spending little time on differentiating or understanding. He offers learning with video games as a digital Nirvana that should replace forms of learning that he claims are now outmoded.
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There is much more variance within this age group that Prensky claims when it comes to immersion in things digital as is reported in Appendix 7.5 and many other places throughout "Generation M."
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Throughout his article, Prensky is fond of simple groupings. He takes complex matters and reduces them into pairs and trios. Having claimed that the young learn entirely differently than the old, he says, "Today’s teachers have to learn to communicate in the language and style of their students."
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endorsement of games to educate his natives is irresponsible given the research pointing to harmful effects. In addition to questions we might raise about an arcade learning strategy, there are many values embedded in these games regarding violence and decency that Prensky ignores.
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Being born into a culture saturated with things digital
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Jamie McKenzie
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n a rather shallow piece lacking in evidence or data, Prensky offers the terms "digital natives" and "digital immigrants" to set up a generational divide. His proposition is simple-minded. He paints digital experience as wonderful and old ways as worthless.
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He presents no data or studies to back up a central thesis of his paper.
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Does Dr. Bruce exist? What has he written?
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Bruce D. Berry appears is in articles citing Prensky's work. There are no publications of his own listed anywhere. Nor are any listed at Amazon.com. Nor is Dr. Bruce listed at the Baylor College of Medicine at http://www.bcm.edu/directory/ His work cannot be found at ERIC. Where does he work? What has he written? We cannot find him, his research or his books.
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Prensky has not spelled the good doctor's name correctly. His name is Dr. Bruce D. Perry.
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Prensky took extreme liberties with the work of Dr. Perry, not even bothering to cite his work or spell his name correctly.
If anything, Perry is arguing against the digital world that Prensky welcomes and celebrates:
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Alison Mannello-MoyerA link from a link that was posted in the directions of the first post. Interesting alternative view to the PDFs we had to read.
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Judy WeggelaarAn argument against some of Prensky's ideas
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J BlackThose leading the digital surge are quick to exile older folks to a dust bin of irrelevancy simply because they were born before the iPod. Their point of view is harsh and ill informed. Their stance is unsubstantiated by evidence and is little more than digital delusion. They are guilty of "arcade scholarship" - analysis that is superficial and cartoonish.
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Those leading the digital surge are quick to exile older folks to a dust bin of irrelevancy simply because they were born before the iPod. Their point of view is harsh and ill informed. Their stance is unsubstantiated by evidence and is little more than digital delusion. They are guilty of "arcade scholarship" - analysis that is superficial and cartoonish.
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Debra HicksJamie's analysis of Marc Prensky's well known research and publications on "digital natives" - Is being born into a culture saturated with things digital a blessing? How well documented is Prensky's notion of digital natives and digital immig
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Piers YoungIn a rather shallow piece lacking in evidence or data, Prensky offers the terms "digital natives" and "digital immigrants" to set up a generational divide. His proposition is simple-minded. He paints digital experience as wonderful and old ways as worthle
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Cheryl Colansend this link to anyone who cites Prensky or uses terms like "Digital Natives" and "Digital Immigrants"
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Lynne JonesDiffering viewpoint to Prenski - critical of Prenski's unsubstantiated claims
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Alan LevineBeing born into a culture saturated with things digital is not a complete blessing despite the eager claims of digital drum majors and pied pipers. Neither is such immersion an automatic state of grace.
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Wesley FryerJamie's analysis of Marc Prensky's well known research and publications on "digital natives" - Is being born into a culture saturated with things digital a blessing? How sensible and well documented is Prensky's notion of digital natives and digital immig
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