grant writing for educator workshop

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Grant Writing workshop

Digital Native, Ditital Immigrant

Digital natives, digital immigrants

In this article the author talked about today’s students think and process information different from their teachers. They grew up from playing and using digital tools and toys, like TV, computers, Videogames, cell phone, Internet….and so on. The author calls them “Digital Native” and for those old folk, like me, would use the above tools and toys, but is learned for work need or personal interests, and is still read from “paper” instead of computer screen, have to adjust myself to use the new technology for a while, or struggle a little bit – “Digital Immigrant.”

The main idea is about the difference between “Digital Native” and “Digital Immigrant”, and as the Digital Immigrant how do we change or should we change the way we think, process information to design our instructional plan in our teaching career.

I don’t know if you like this idea about “Digital Native” vs “Digital Immigrant”, one thing for sure is that, when we design our instructional plan, we always have to plan-well and think a lot about our “learners” no matter how old they are.

Sophia

Week 6 Reading

About this week’s reading, I like this article, “Research on multimedia.” According to this article, learning achievements from multimedia classroom and traditional classroom were no significant from this study. Actually, many of study in working on the comparison of traditional classroom with technology implementing classroom, did show no significant on the students’ achievements. This reminds us that we have to seek other factors which might affect or influence the learning performance except the way of delivery our instruction. Like this article mentioned that “motivation” which is one of very important factors. However, I think, we also have to pay attention on context, interaction between learners and teachers, and the way of using technology.

Sophia

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