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Teachers Teaching in the New Mediascape: Digital Immigrants or "Natural Born Cyborgs"?
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Adams, Catherine A.; Pente, Patti – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2011
Schooled in an earlier time, educators are laboring to find meaningful purchase in new media environments, unable to match the fluency and sophistication of their "digital native" students. Yet is Marc Prensky's portrayal of teachers as "digital immigrants" really an accurate rendering of the today's situation? Drawing on phenomenological and…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Handheld Devices, Familiarity, Generational Differences