Week 10 Wenger and Prensky

1) How might Wenger's notions on practice communities relate to Prensky's on education?



Wenger's notion of COPs deals with education online and Prensky's ideas relates to the new technologies within education so to an extent they both relate to one another.


Wenger's model relates to education as a shared community online this would beneficial i think to the countries which can either not afford to have schools in every village or are too widespread for students to get to.

It would also mean that digital immigrants may become extinct beacuse if education did take on the idea that digital immigrants have to learn the language of the digital natives with the eductaion system introducing the idea of COPs this would have to be done either way.


To collaborate both of the ideas together would introduce a completely radical way to educating people and one that would have its advantages as well as strong disadvantages. For instance to what extent would these technologies be introduced in the classroom?would it just be in the classroom or would the technologies be available in the home?where does the teachers role come in to this?or would this new technology only make them assessors?