Technology+-+Teaching+in+a+Foreign+Land?

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=Technology - Teaching in a Foreign Land?=

In 2001(article linked below), Marc Prensky first coined the idea of students as "digital natives" while we, the teachers, the presumptive leaders of the classroom, are "digital immigrants." HIe metaphor does indeed sum up a colossal change in the classroom playing field, one which leaves many teachers feeling disadvantaged by their own lack of facility with technology. To continue Prensky's analogy, it's a little like teaching in a foreign land. How do educators use technology not as bells and whistles to "pretty-up" projects but as true tools to expand and deepen learning.

[|DigitalNatives Digital Immigrants]