digital immigrants
marketers
why not to make the learning into a videogame!
first person shooter
player becomes an intergalactic secret agent who has to save a space station from an attack by the the devil dr.monkey wrench. the only way to defeat him is to use CAD software, whichthe learner must employ to use build tools, fix weapons, and defeat booby traps.
two kinds of content
educators
need to think how to teach legacy and future content in the language of digital natives.
future:
extremely interesting to todays students
includes software,hardware, robotics,nanotechnology and genomics.
digital and technological
content is to a large extent
legacy, this incluedes:
it is from a different era
understanding the writings and ideas of the past
logical thinking
aritmetic
writing
reading
today teachers have to learn to communiate in a language and style of their students
more random acces
more in parallel
less step by step
going faster
