Rethinking E-Learning and Digital Natives

2019 ◽  
pp. 114-124
Author(s):  
Işıl Tombul
Keyword(s):  
Technological Development ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Digital Native ◽  
Digital Immigrants ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Digital Immigrant ◽  
E Learning

Prensky calls the generation which was born after the 1980s and into this culture the digital natives, and he calls the generation which was born before the 1980s the digital immigrants. Digital natives are the ones who were born into technological development, grew up with technology, were educated with technology, and use technology very much. However, Prensky's differentiation has been criticized for being strict and his attitude has been criticized for being technology lover. Prensky accepts the intensive interest of the children towards technology and that's why he claims that they learn from technology. With this point of view, a critical perspective will be shown towards Prensky's digital immigrant and digital native terms, and e-learning of the children in this digital culture will be observed in this study. For this purpose, related approaches and studies have been scanned.

scholarly journals Generasi Digital Natives dalam Praktik Konsumsi Berita di Lingkungan Digital

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-98
Author(s):  
Devie Rahmawati ◽  
Giri Lumakto ◽  
Deni Danial Kesa
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
Digital Native ◽  
Digital Immigrants ◽  
Digital Immigrant

Dominasi interaksi warga di dunia digital masih menyisakan ketidaksetaraan antar generasi. Walau data menunjukkan dari 268 juta penduduk Indonesia, terdapat 355 juta pengguna seluler (133%). Dimana 91% mengakses informasi melalui ponsel, mayoritas interaksi digital ini berasal digital native. Digital natives (17-34 tahun) adalah generasi yang lahir berdampingan dengan perkembangan teknologi. Sedang digital immigrants (45-65 tahun) lahir sebelum teknologi digital berkembang pesat. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif. Metode pengumpulan data menggunakan teknik dua kali wawancara dengan FGD dengan 55 orang responden. Ke 55 responden berasal dari digital natives (20) dan digital immigrants (35). Teknik wawancara menggunakan tidak terstruktur. Dengan analisis data bersifat deskriptif. Penelitian ini menemukan adanya misinterpretasi kompetensi digital, terutama dalam konsumsi informasi hoaks. Dibandingkan dengan generasi digital immigrant dalam mengkonsumsi berita, digital natives menunjukkan ketimpangan schemata dalam mengenali informasi digital. Kedua generasi masih mudah terprovokasi dengan kandungan emosional hoaks. Terjadi kendala untuk digital natives merubah kondisi sosial atas persebaran berita hoaks (digital divide). Pola patron-client menjadi salah satu penyebab hoaks menjadi informasi yang dipercaya juga oleh digital natives.

scholarly journals Preferred Learning Styles for Digital Native and Digital Immigrant Visitors in The Malaysian Music Museum

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 234
Author(s):  
Mohd Nasiruddin Abdul Aziz ◽  
Siti Norlizaiha Harun ◽  
Mohd Khairi Baharom ◽  
Norfadilah Kamaruddin
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Digital Native ◽  
Digital Immigrants ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Digital Immigrant ◽  
Different Levels

The majority of museum experts have agreed that museums are informal learning environments, however, most of the previous studies on digital learning have focused on formal education institutions instead of informal environments. Hence, adapting the new fast-changing technology in museum learning has become one of the major challenges for the digital native and digital immigrant populations due to their different learning styles. These two generations have different levels of thinking patterns, experiences, and digital exposure that lead to different levels of technology accessibility in the learning environment. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the preferred learning styles of museum visitors in the Malaysian context based on the learning styles of digital natives and digital immigrants. A total of 265 respondents participated in this study representing the population of N=792 at the Malaysian music museum in the data collection process. These descriptive results on the cross-tabulation analysis from the survey indicated that most of the visitors preferred the digital natives’ learning styles compared to the digital immigrants’, regardless of personal factors (gender, age, nationality, education level, or occupation). Thus, museum institutions should take the necessary steps to enhance or maintain the learning approach for digital natives with elements of entertainment and fun, provide internet connection, less text, out of school environment, digital use, and multi-task activities for skills enhancement. The minority of digital immigrants are suggested to assimilate and become part of the digital native group to stay relevant in this digital era. Keywords: Digital, Education, Learning, Malaysia, Museum

scholarly journals A Survey on Digital Immigrants’ Technology Usage and Practice in Teaching Digital Natives

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Dipima Buragohain
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Collaborative Teaching ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
Digital Native ◽  
Digital Immigrants ◽  
Technology Usage ◽  
Digital Immigrant ◽  
Processing Information ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

The widespread use of digital technologies by digital natives has put a considerable amount of pressure on their educators, who are mostly digital immigrants, to recognize the relevance of digital connectivity, learn new ways of thinking and processing information of the digital natives, and integrate it into their teaching environments. The current study looks into these aspects while discussing the technology usage and practice of digital immigrant educators in higher education. A survey was conducted with a structured questionnaire on the technology usage and teaching strategies implemented by the digital immigrant educators to teach digital natives in higher education. The findings reported that digital immigrant educators must be accustomed to the a) diverse needs of digital native students and b) use and applications of digital technologies in order to create and practice interactive and collaborative teaching environments.

scholarly journals Intelligent Tutoring Systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 717-727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimír Bradáč ◽  
Kateřina Kostolányová
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Tutoring Systems ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Intelligent Tutoring ◽  
Intelligent Tutoring System ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Tertiary Sector ◽  
Tutoring Systems ◽  
Number Of Ends ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Education Of Students

AbstractThe importance of intelligent tutoring systems has rapidly increased in past decades. There has been an exponential growth in the number of ends users that can be addressed as well as in technological development of the environments, which makes it more sophisticated and easily implementable. In the introduction, the paper offers a brief overview of intelligent tutoring systems. It then focuses on two types that have been designed for education of students in the tertiary sector. The systems use elements of adaptivity in order to accommodate as many users as possible. They serve both as a support of presence lessons and, primarily, as the main educational environment for students in the distance form of studies – e-learning. The systems are described from the point of view of their functionalities and typical features that show their differences. The authors conclude with an attempt to choose the best features of each system, which would lead to creation of an even more sophisticated intelligent tutoring system for e-learning.

scholarly journals Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives: Learning Business Informatics at Higher Educational Level

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia Suša
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
Native Students ◽  
Digital Native ◽  
Digital Immigrants ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Business Informatics ◽  
High Level

AbstractBackground: The term digital natives refer to those born since the 1980s and have been growing up surrounded by technology. On the other hand, digital immigrants are born before 1980s and learned how to use technology later in life. Objectives: Goal of the paper is to explore attitudes of digital native students on the course of Business Informatics at higher educational institutions (HEIs), and to compare them with attitudes of digital immigrants. Methods/Approach: The survey was conducted in 2014 using the sample of first-year Business Informatics students from the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb, Croatia. Results were compared with a research conducted in 1998. Results: In comparison to an earlier research, digital natives perceive their level of competency in the subject of Business Informatics before teaching practices much higher compared to digital immigrants. However, there is still an increase in digital native students’ level of competency in the subject before and after teaching practices. Conclusions: The research confirms a shift from digital immigrants to digital natives who show high level of interest for Business Informatics course topics and find its utility very high. However, constant improvement of delivering knowledge is needed in order to keep these high levels.

scholarly journals REMODELED SOCIO-CULTURAL AND ACADEMIC E-LEARNING

2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Khadija Qamar ◽  
Faiza Kiran
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Digital Native ◽  
Digital Immigrants ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The World ◽  
Giant Leap ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Face To Face Instruction ◽  
Medical Colleges

Panacea erupted by COVID-19 outbreak has transformed our personal and political perspectives, on priorities and mode of lives, around the world. On March 11, 2020, WHO declaring it as a pandemic followed by nation wide smart lockdown and implementation of social distancing, has remodeled our sociocultural and academic norms.To our interest, it has encouraged medical colleges of our country to take a giant leap from a traditional face-to-face instruction to online learning. Though sudden, massive, and unplanned transition it might be, this not only changed mode of curricular delivery, but uncovered opportunity of grooming ourselves to Millennial expectations. Initially, our digital recluse faculty had to learn basics of computer to become digital refugees. Later, they successfully adapted themselves as digital immigrants to teach a digital native generation!

scholarly journals COMMUNICATION PRACTICES OF 12-14 YEARS-OLD DIGITAL USERS

2020 ◽  
Vol LXVIII (2) ◽  
pp. 71-85
Author(s):  
Silvia Făt ◽  
Inna Pielescu
Keyword(s):  
Technology Use ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Digital Native ◽  
Bulletin Boards ◽  
Digital Stories ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
High Degree

This study aims to explore the online communication habits and practices of 12-14-year-old 50 students from an urban school. Measuring their answers on the Digital Native Scale of Timothy Teo (DNAS), this study refers to the suggested four-factor by the author, creating a framework for the analysis of their digital native profile: grown up with technology, comfortable with multi-tasking, reliant on graphics for communication, and thrive on instant rewards (Teo, 2013). The results of the study enhance the understanding of digital natives. As we expected, this research shows a high degree of comfort in online communication in their differentiated profile. It is relevant the issue of age when exemplifying digital natives’ skills. Also, it is estimated that there are similar behaviours, related with the debut age of technology use (4-5 years old). The most common actions in virtual space are surfing on the Internet, photographing, communicating, downloading, disseminating, adding to comments on colleagues’ posts. According to this study, the online communication practices of these 12-14-year-old students include in terms of content various symbols, instant bonuses, and feedback elements. From an educational point of view, these can be included in a structured manner of learning. The article proposes, in this view, several ways to integrate usual students’ communication practices in learning activities with the support of digital resources (virtual bulletin boards, online presentations, digital stories so on). The results indicate that students showed the digital native characteristics, that can be successfully used in school.

scholarly journals Digital Immigrant Lectures’ Acceptance of e-Learning Portal: An Application of UTAUT Model

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jefri Marzal ◽  
Reni Aryani ◽  
Rina Kusuma Dewi ◽  
Saharudin
Keyword(s):  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Digital Immigrants ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Digital Immigrant ◽  
Utaut Model ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Theory Acceptance

One of the challenges in implementing e-learning in tertiary institutions is the large number of lecturers who are categorized as digital immigrants. This group has the tendency of having difficulties with Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and showing some resistance to ICT. This study aims to determine the factors that influence digital immigrants in accepting e-learning at the University of Jambi using the Unified Theory Acceptance of User Technology (UTAUT) model. Factors to be tested include innovation, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, attitudes towards e-learning, risk perception, and acceptance of digital immigrant lecturers. The sample in this study was 55 digital immigrant lecturers. The results of this study indicate that there are as many as 6 out of 9 hypotheses accepted significantly. The finding reveals that the acceptance of e-learning is only influenced by the perceived usefulness.

scholarly journals THE INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOUR MODEL OF IPB UNIVERSITY STUDENTS BASED ON STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41
Author(s):  
Dr. Ir. Janti G. Sujana, MA
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Environmental Variables ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Digital Immigrants ◽  
Digital Immigrant ◽  
Information Seeking Behaviour

The abundant of information on the internet has become a competitor for libraries as information service providers. Therefore to survive and thrive, the  libraries  must change and adopt to a rapidly evolving external environment. Understanding user information seeking behaviour is very useful for redesigning various services that suit to user needs. The objectives of this study were: 1). To analyze the characteristics of digital natives and digital immigrants of IPB University students related to their information seeking behaviour; 2). To develop a model of information seeking behaviour of both digital natives and digital immigrants of IPB University students based on structural equation modeling. The study was mainly quantitative and questionnaire was designed to study students’ information-seeking behaviour. The findings showed that the dominant behaviours and preferences of digital natives in their information seeking behaviour were influenced by environmental variables, especially the availability of information. For the information seeking behaviour variables of students, the dominant indicator were asking for printed and digital information to the lecturer. While for immigrant digital students their information seeking behaviour were dominantly influenced by environmental variables, especially the availability of information. The indicators for information seeking behaviour of digital immigrant student were dominated by asking printed information to friends, and requesting digital information to the lecturer. The success of getting information is dominant in the speed-of-getting-information indicator, both for digital natives and digital immigrant students.

scholarly journals Are Adult Educators and Learners ‘Digital Immigrants’? Examining the Evidence and Impacts for Continuing Education

2013 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Smith
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Net Generation ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Digital Native ◽  
Digital Immigrants ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Impact

Over the past decade, Prensky’s distinctions between “digital immigrants” and “digital natives” have been oft-referenced. Much has been written about digital native students as a part of the Net generation or as Millennials. However, little work fully considers the impact of digital immigrant discourse within the fields of adult learning and continuing education. It is promising that rather than being digitally challenged immigrants for whom new learning technologies are completely foreign, adults of different ages can bring valuable knowledge and skills to e-learning environments that enable them to achieve academic success. These are important findings, since e-learning is increasingly recognized as an important part of learning across the life-course. With the growing body of research evidence countering common digital native and immigrant distinctions and critiquing an underlying technological determinism informing such arguments, how might practitioners respond to these discourses in their own educational contexts? With a focus on digital immigrants, the purpose of this article is to provide critical consideration of current research evidence on digital native/immigrant distinctions that impact educators and learners within the field of continuing education.

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