Teachers Teaching in the New Mediascape: Digital Immigrants or ‘Natural Born Cyborgs’?

Schooled in an earlier time, educators are laboring to find meaningful purchase in new media environments, unable to match the fluency and sophistication of their ‘digital native’ students. Yet is Marc Prensky's portrayal of teachers as ‘digital immigrants’ really an accurate rendering of the t...

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Published in:E-learning and digital media 2011-09, Vol.8 (3), p.247-257
Main Authors: Adams, Catherine A., Pente, Patti
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adjustment (to Environment)
Computer Software
Educational Technology
Familiarity
Generational Differences
Handheld Devices
Influence of Technology
Information Technology
Man Machine Systems
Media Literacy
Phenomenology
Reflective Teaching
Self Concept
Social Change
Synthesis
Teacher Attitudes
Teacher Characteristics
Technology Uses in Education
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Summary:Schooled in an earlier time, educators are laboring to find meaningful purchase in new media environments, unable to match the fluency and sophistication of their ‘digital native’ students. Yet is Marc Prensky's portrayal of teachers as ‘digital immigrants’ really an accurate rendering of the today's situation? Drawing on phenomenological and posthuman literature, the authors reconsider teachers' everyday involvements with technologies, and explore new ways of conceptualizing teachers and students in today's mediatic situation. They suggest that teachers and students alike are more aptly – and less divisively – visualized as digital migrants or nomadic cyborgs navigating and acclimatizing to a restless twenty-first-century educational scene.
ISSN:2042-7530
2042-7530
DOI:10.2304/elea.2011.8.3.247