1. What was the term "Digital Native" meant to be used as?
"The distinction was intended to be a metaphor for describing the differences that many people observed, around the turn of the twenty-first century, between the attitudes of younger and older people regarding digital technology (Prensky, 2006)."
2. According to author what are the characteristics associated with Digital Natives?
"children were born into the age when these technologies were around from their birth, whereas their parents were not."
3. Do you consider yourself a Digital Native?
I do not. I may understand certain aspects of technology, but that does not mean I support the further expansion of it.
4. What is Digital Wisdom?
"Digital wisdom is a twofold concept, referring both to wisdom arising from the use of digital technology to access cognitive power beyond our innate capacity and to wisdom in the prudent use of technology to enhance our capabilities."
5. How does the author define "wisdom"?
"How and how much they make use of these resources, how they filter through them to find what they need, and how technology aids them will certainly play an important role in determining the wisdom of their decisions and judgments."
6. How can technology enhance our Wisdom? Give three examples from the chapter.
"Digital technology enhances memory...Digital data-gathering and decision-making tools enhance judgment...Digital cognitive enhancement is a reality in every profession, even in nontechnical fields such as law and the humanities."
- Allows us to gather more data than we could on our own
- Helps us perform more complex analyses than we could unaided
- Increases our power to ask “what if?” and pursue all the implications of that question
7. What concerns did Socrates have about the technology of writing?
It undermines the memory.
8. How can teachers practice Digital Wisdom?
"...letting students learn by using new technologies, putting themselves in the role of guides, context providers, and quality controllers."
9.
The author states that he is "...opposed to those who claim the
unenhanced mind and unaided thinking are somehow superior to the
enhanced mind." Are you? Why or why not?
This question doesn't settle well with me. I feel that sometimes with the aid of technology, the mind doesn't work to its full capacity. However, with other things, when enhanced with technology, it is better. So, I don't have an answer
Quote:
"But the worst, in my view, were those who thought I was making the absurd claim (or who themselves made the patently absurd assumption) that if someone was born after a certain date, and was therefore included as a Digital Native, that person automatically knew everything there was to know about digital technology."
Response:
This is assumptions that so many people make and I think is silly. There are many, many people out there that are classified as a "digital native" because of birth, but that does not mean they know how to do all of the "native" things. I know that I know more than a lot of my peers about some technology and how to do things on the computer, but that is because I had the opportunity of growing up in a household of having a 3-D animator as a father along with taking a bunch of computer classes in high school. As for most of my friends, they didn't have that so they always come to me when they have questions about computer-related things. However, 80% of the time, I still don't even know the answer. So this assumption is definitely inaccurate and causes what seems to be a lot of controversy.
Sources:
Filloux, F. (2010). Digital native. [0].
Thomas, Michael (2011-04-29). Deconstructing Digital Natives: Young People, Technology and the New Literacies (p. 16-27). Taylor & Francis. Kindle Edition.
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