As a future educator I have learned how important it is for students to know as much as possible about the safety of the internet because kids nowadays at just age four are already using the internet so they need to know as much as possible about the safety and privacy about a computer and going on the internet. There are many dangers also about someone so young using a computer, many unacceptable websites and also they can’t trust just…
“Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” is a piece written by Marc Prensky showcasing the difference in the generation who grew up with rising technology and the generation who teach the younger generation. Presnky presents his piece and illustrates today’s students struggle in education dealing with an older generation who did not grow up with technology. This article highlights the reason the educational system is not effective in teaching to the style of the “Digitial Natives”.…
According to Julia Mckinnell in the article “Control, Alt, Erase” she talks about how social networking has become a problem for teenagers, and how parents can serve as “a role model” by helping and making sure that their kids personal information is safe. Mckinnell gives important reasons why parents should be aware of the consequences that social networks can have on their children. Posting a message, a tweet, or a photo online can give away the location and time it was posted. This data can be used to identify, or to gather personal information. For example, Tech companies gather personal data onto teenager's social media accounts for profit (Mckinnell). Also, jobs might look to gather data about certain individuals to know who they hire. Therefore, it's important for parents to teach their children risks involving sharing personal information to the public.…
In the article Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Marc Prensky asserts that if digital immigrant educators wish to reach digital naives they will have to adapt. Prensky’s claims are a response to the fact that teachers don’t believe that they should have to adapt in order to teach students. With the rapid change change of students and technology the interests and focuses of students have shifted. In addition to this change in students, the educators are remaining the same causing a communication disconnect. Prensky, states that there is a distinct disconnect between the digital immigrants and natives because of lack of effort, resistance to change, and conflict of communicative interests.…
The article,”Let Kids Run Wild Online,” the author, Danah Boyd discusses the issue with overprotective parents who constantly restrict their child’s freedom, especially now with technology being the new field for kids in today’s century. Parent’s are quite often viewed as overprotective and desperate to be involved in their child's lives, however, this isn’t necessarily bad. Contrary to Boyd’s argument, children should not be allowed to “run wild online,” for their are many consequences and negative outcomes to this matter. Firstly, children, who are main focus of this Body’s prompt, aren’t at the appropriate age to understand the the dangers of online activities, or many don’t take it serious or into consideration. Secondly, parents aren’t…
Harlen Coben, editorial,¨Undercover Parent ¨( March 16,2008 ), claims that parents should monitor their teens and what they do on the internet. The author started off being against this idea, but then he sat down at a dinner with his friends whom convinced him otherwise. The author backs up his reasons after his anecdote. The authors purpose of this article is to make sure that parents are doing their best to protect their teens from the dangers of being online, in order to establish total and complete safety with his or her teen/teens. The intended audience for this article is parents with teenagers or kids who have access to the internet, now assuming the author has teens of his their would be some connection made with the audience their.…
We’re afraid, because our kids know things we don’t.” (Goldwasser, par. 7). Teenagers have the ability to decide what becomes popular through the use of social media and the internet. They are the main reason why Apple products have become so popular and common; they made movies like “High School Musical” popular. Through their use and time on social media they were able to make the movie “Juno” an Oscar winner, made MySpace worth five hundred and eighty million dollars. Goldwasser stated “Besides, we’re tired of having to ask them every time we need to find Season 2 of “Heroes,” calculate a carbon footprint or upload photos to Facebook.” (Goldwasser, par. 8). A major reason parents think that the internet is melting their kid’s brains is because they just don’t seem to know how to do certain things with the internet without having to ask for help from a teenager. Parents also believe that teenagers are consistently blogging about them. As the author said “teenagers today read and write for fun; its part of their social lives. We need to start celebrating this unprecedented surge, incorporating it as an educational tool instead of meeting it with punishing pop quizzes and suspicion.” (Goldwasser, par. 14). Adults need to be able to start trusting their kids that what they do on the internet is not…
In 2001, Marc Prensky, an internationally acclaimed thought leader, speaker, writer, consultant, and game designer in education and learning, penned an article entitled “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” which attempted to identify the root cause of the decline of education in the United States (Prensky, 2001). In this article, Prensky…
Most children and young people use the Internet positively. However, sometimes they behave in ways that may place them at risk. Some risks do not necessarily arise from the technology itself but result from offline behaviors that are extended into the online world, and vice versa.…
Other than responsibility and worrying about their future parents should concern the dangers of the internet. An example for dngers of the internet would be strangers on the internet knowing your personal information. Another way to support this would be the unknown things that the stranger would do or commit.…
Digital Natives are used to receiving information really fast. They like to parallel process and multi-task. They prefer their graphics beforetheir text rather than the opposite. They prefer random access (like hypertext). They function best when networked. They thrive on instant gratification and frequent rewards. They prefer games to "serious" work. (2001a, p. 1 [print], ¶ 11 [online])…
I agree with Coben about having parents spying on their teens’ because we as teens’ don't quite know about the dangerous in the internet. Parents just want their teens to be at any risk because in the article from “ Undercover Parent” says that meeting someone you don’t know or going into unknown websites can harm you because you can't be sure to trust it. Another reason for example, when it almost happened to me, I was almost in danger of certain things that could have happened to me for that reason is why my parents have all of my electronics on supervision. However, at the same time I disagree there are two reasons why I disagree. First ,we as teenagers that…
For those children that do use the technology to its advantage, it isn’t being used the proper way all the time. Nicholas Carr reveals “research…
The Digital Natives are a prominent concept because the digital technologies have had a huge significance on a lot of peoples' lives. The technology has improved extremely. The digital natives can be described as the people who are born after the year of 1980, Prensky (2001a) and they were born into a hyper connected world and they believe everything should be in demand in real time. These people are comfortable with the uses of computers. In contrast,not the all the people who are born after the year of 1980 is a digital native. Firstly For this assignment I will be talking about a digital immigrant and how they have adopted many aspects of the latest digital technologies .I will also be discussing an experience and age factors, economical factors. Finally, I will conduct an assignment by discussing the conclusion in a detailed.…
For young people, technology shapes the way they access information, interact with one another, and define themselves as individuals. Yet, many do not fully understand the short- or long-term consequences of their online actions on themselves or others and do not heed to the maxim "think before you post."…