Week 9 Abstract 1 and 2

Abstract 1

This article discusses the nature of Digital Natives and Education leaders (Digital Immigrants)within the eduaction systems in terms of learning and teaching.The author provides the grounding for a debate in terms of how teaching should be adaptable to these digital natives in order to provide education which is applicable to them in terms of new technologies. There is a strong sense that there is an art to student engagement and collaboration rather than resisting the new horizon. And although there is a clear distinction bewteen the students (natives) and the educators (immigrants) it is important for both to remember it is the 21st century and with it comes these new technologies in the classroom but at the same time that the tradition to education should not not be lost but revamped as it were.

Abstract 2

This article has two clear lines of argument the first being that education needs to change in order to accomodate, for Digital Natives which comes to the second part of the argument; digital natives do exist.


Although the line of argument is clear the theoretical evidence is not and therefore appears there is no real strong evidence to support the above claims just an amount of opinion. Because of this the suggestion is to investigate and to conduct more research in to the subject before making any drastic changes.