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![Digital Natives
• ‘Born with Technology’ starting
from the 1990
• [K-College] students today* are
all “native speakers” of the digital
language of computers, video
games and the Internet.
• Marc Prensky, 2001*, Educational
Games developer](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/awakentheforce-160915040849/75/Awaken-the-Force-Library-Services-for-Digital-Natives-3-2048.jpg)
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Awaken the Force: Library Services for Digital Natives
The document discusses the differences between digital natives and digital immigrants, emphasizing that younger generations are comfortable with technology and prefer asynchronous communication through multimedia. It advocates for the assimilation of old skills with new technologies to enhance user experience and promote collaborative learning environments. The goal is to help develop critical thinking skills alongside traditional library services.
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- 1. AWAKEN THE FORCE LibraryServices for Digital Natives
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- 3. Digital Natives • ‘Bornwith Technology’ starting from the 1990 • [K-College] students today* are all “native speakers” of the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet. • Marc Prensky, 2001*, Educational Games developer
- 5. WHERE ARE WENOW? 11 to 24 YEARS OLD
- 6. DIGITAL TYPES DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS •Prefer to talk in-person or on the phone • Don’t text or only sparingly • Synchronous communication • Prefer receiving information slowly: linear, logical, sequential • Prefer reading text (i.e. books) on processing pictures, sounds and video DIGITAL NATIVES • Prefer to talk via chat, text or messaging thru social media • Text more than call • Asynchronous communication • Prefer receiving information quickly & simultaneously from multiple multimedia & other sources • Prefer processing/interacting with pictures, graphics, sounds & video before text Zur & Zur,2011;Rosen,2010; Prensky, 2001
- 7. ASSIMILATE - COLLABORATE- AWAKEN
- 8. ASSIMILATE Adapt and marry“old” skills with technology for a better user experience
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- 16. COLLABORATE 21st Century Learning= Collaborative Learning Build contents thru partnerships and networks
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- 22. AWAKEN More than theprovision of library and multimedia resources, as educators, we should help develop CRITICAL THINKERS
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