Week 8- Article 3

Article 3- The third article I have chosen to look at draws upon integrating digital natives needs into education. The article was written in 2008 which is fairly recent and shows how much the issue of digital natives/immigrants is still very much an issue in terms of learning. The article discusses Twenty-first century tools in the classroom and incorporating the Internet via google into education, it also looks at the various google tools such as Google docs, available to students who do not have Microsoft word. The main disagreements I have with this article is basically the incorporation of google tools into education. I think that this article is "selling" google and all its products as a form of educational use in learning., it talks about how introducing this into classrooms could help "to close the digital divide", which I completely disagree with. I think that the digital divide will never be completely closed because there are two types of generation we are talking about. Surely just because the "google generation" have grown up with technology, does not mean that other generations must have to change in order to meet their needs. It should be a compromise, I do not believe that in order for this new digital generation to learn, the digital immigrants must change their teaching methods because these still prove to be effective!