Comments on: Of Digital Immigrants, Power Browsing and Bouncing Out http://www.openeducation.net/2008/07/14/of-digital-immigrants-power-browsing-and-bouncing-out/ Free Education for All Fri, 13 May 2011 00:38:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Stephanie Martin http://www.openeducation.net/2008/07/14/of-digital-immigrants-power-browsing-and-bouncing-out/#comment-8894 Stephanie Martin Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:54:33 +0000 http://www.openeducation.net/?p=267#comment-8894 I too have been in this situation, wonder what my son could possibly be getting out of his studies when he has his headphones on, computer open to a chat room and one page open to an ebook. I work at a local university and can not imagine wanting to have my textbook online because I believe that the time I sit in front of the computer for work is too much and would not want to do this for homework as well. But that is what makes me an immigrant and not a native, well that and my other technology short comings. Students prefer to have everything accessible to them online so that they do not have to carry anything with them but their PDA or Laptop. They also relate better to these items then a textbook. I think that the new technology that students are raised on has caused instructors to raise the bar on their teaching style and is causing them to take it one step further and make it more digitally interactive because making it paper and pencil interactive is just not cutting it anymore. I too have been in this situation, wonder what my son could possibly be getting out of his studies when he has his headphones on, computer open to a chat room and one page open to an ebook.
I work at a local university and can not imagine wanting to have my textbook online because I believe that the time I sit in front of the computer for work is too much and would not want to do this for homework as well. But that is what makes me an immigrant and not a native, well that and my other technology short comings.
Students prefer to have everything accessible to them online so that they do not have to carry anything with them but their PDA or Laptop. They also relate better to these items then a textbook.
I think that the new technology that students are raised on has caused instructors to raise the bar on their teaching style and is causing them to take it one step further and make it more digitally interactive because making it paper and pencil interactive is just not cutting it anymore.

]]> By: Liz Jett http://www.openeducation.net/2008/07/14/of-digital-immigrants-power-browsing-and-bouncing-out/#comment-7935 Liz Jett Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:22:12 +0000 http://www.openeducation.net/?p=267#comment-7935 The notion of power browsing is intriguing. As someone who nearly straddles the digital native and digital immigrant generations, I wonder if this is truly a new behavior. Obviously, the technology (the Internet) is newer. However, in my school years I clearly remember "browsing" through textbooks and other text materials for essential words or phrases, and mentally discarding the rest. I rarely bothered to read entire chapters or books. For the digital natives, search engines merely make this task a little easier and quicker, and more observable. I also question where student "hyperactivity" fits into all this. Do technology devices make students more hyper? Are they no longer engaged by lectures and textbooks? Or is hyperactivity simply an observation of a digital native made by a digital immigrant? The notion of power browsing is intriguing. As someone who nearly straddles the digital native and digital immigrant generations, I wonder if this is truly a new behavior. Obviously, the technology (the Internet) is newer. However, in my school years I clearly remember “browsing” through textbooks and other text materials for essential words or phrases, and mentally discarding the rest. I rarely bothered to read entire chapters or books. For the digital natives, search engines merely make this task a little easier and quicker, and more observable.

I also question where student “hyperactivity” fits into all this. Do technology devices make students more hyper? Are they no longer engaged by lectures and textbooks? Or is hyperactivity simply an observation of a digital native made by a digital immigrant?

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