Digital Natives

Digital Native Students Prefer:

• Information gathering quickly from multiple multimediasources
• Multitasking
• Pictures, sound and video
• Random access to hyperlinked multimedia information
• Working interactively and networking with many others simultaneously
• Learning what is relevant,instantly useful and fun
•Like parallel processing
•Like to network with others
•Like to learn “just in time”

Digital Immigrant Faculty Prefer
• Slow and controlled release of information from limited resources
• Complete one task before moving on to the next task
• Like singular processing and single or limited tasking
• Text
• Providing information linearly, logically and sequentially
• Working independently
• Teaching to the curriculum and examinations
• Like to work independently
• Like to learn “just in case”

Source: http://www.labschool.ucla.edu/outreach/PTAConf2006.pdf