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                                                                                     Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part 1
                                                                                     Marc Prensky,
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                                                                                                                                                                                                             Volume 9, Number 5

                                                                                     Digital Natives, Digital
                                                                                     Immigrants Part 1
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                                                                                     Marc Prensky
                                                                                     games2train.com and Corporate Gameware LLC
                                                                                     marc@games2train.com

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                                                                                         t is amazing to me how, in all the hoo-ha      instant messaging are integral parts of their
                                                                                         and debate these days about the decline of
                                                                                         education in the USA, we ignore the most
                                                                                                                                        lives.
                                                                                                                                           It is now clear that, as a result of this
                                                                                                                                                                                            IN THIS ISSUE:
                                                                                                                                                                                            Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
                                                                                         fundamental of its causes. Our students        ubiquitous environment and the sheer volume         Park 1
                                                                                     have changed radically. Today’s students are       of their interaction with it, today’s students      Marc Prensky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                                                                                     no longer the people our educational system        think and process information fundamentally
                                                                                     was designed to teach.                             differently from their predecessors. These          From the Editor
                                                                                                                                                                                            On the Horizon Broadens its Horizons
                                                                                        Today’s students have not just changed          differences go far further and deeper than
                                                                                                                                                                                            – To Publish May Be To Perish?
                                                                                     incrementally from those of the past, nor          most educators suspect or realize. “Different
                                                                                                                                                                                            Tom P. Abeles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
                                                                                     simply changed their slang, clothes, body          kinds of experiences lead to different brain
                                                                                     adornments, or styles, as has happened             structures, “ says Dr Bruce D. Berry of Baylor      Legacy-based Thinking II: Resisting New
                                                                                     between generations previously. A really big       College of Medicine. As we shall see in the next    Tools and Competencies
                                                                                     discontinuity has taken place. One might even      installment, it is very likely that our students’   Arthur Harkins and George Kubik . . . . 6
                                                                                     call it a “singularity” – an event which changes   brains have physically changed – and are            A Voice from Pari
                                                                                     things so fundamentally that there is absolutely   different from ours – as a result of how they       Elena Liotta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
                                                                                     no going back. This so-called “singularity” is     grew up. But whether or not this is literally
                                                                                     the arrival and rapid dissemination of digital     true, we can say with certainty that their          Scanning the Environment
                                                                                                                                                                                            NextEd Offers Multiple Services for
                                                                                     technology in the last decades of the twentieth    thinking patterns have changed. I will get to
                                                                                                                                                                                            Hitting Asian Marketplace
                                                                                     century.                                           how they have changed in a minute.                  George Lorenzo . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
                                                                                        Today’s students – K-12 through college –          What should we call these “new” students
                                                                                     represent the first generations to grow up         of today? Some refer to them as the N-(for          Book Reviews
                                                                                     with this new technology. They have spent          Net)-gen or D-(for digital)-gen. But the most       Is it or isn’t it?
                                                                                     their entire lives surrounded by and using         useful designation I have found for them is         Tom Abeles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
                                                                                     computers, videogames, digital music players,      Digital Natives. Our students today are all
                                                                                     video cams, cell phones, and all the other toys    “native speakers” of the digital language of
                                                                                     and tools of the digital age. Today’s average      computers, video games and the Internet.
                                                                                     college grads have spent fewer than 5,000             So what does that make the rest of us?
                                                                                     hours of their lives reading, but over 10,000      Those of us who were not born into the
                                                                                     hours playing video games (not to mention          digital world but have, at some later point in
                                                                                     20,000 hou rs watching TV ). Computer              our lives, become fascinated by and adopted
                                                                                     games, e-mail, the Internet, cell phones and       many or most aspects of the new technology
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are actively seeking alternatives to distribution of          Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
                                                                                     traditional journal articles through a limited number of
                                                                                     publishing houses that control rights and are considered      Part 1
                                                                                     to be making exceedingly large profits through their          continued from page 1
                                                                                     control of the distribution of what is seen, traditionally,
                                                                                     as public knowledge. In addition to the academics,            are, and always will be, compared with them, Digital
                                                                                     scholarly libraries have become concerned, as the             Immigrants.
                                                                                     proliferation of journals and the rapidly rising costs          The importance of the distinction is this: As Digital
                                                                                     severely pressure increasingly limited budgets.               Immigrants learn – like all immigrants, some better
                                                                                        Not only is the academic community faced with              than others – to adapt to their environment, they
                                                                                     confronting the issues of preprints, online journals and      always retain, to some degree, their “accent”, that is
                                                                                     increasing numbers of traditional publications, but           their foot in the past. The “digital immigrant accent”
                                                                                     also the electronic medium adds what has traditionally        can be seen in such things as turning to the Internet for
                                                                                     been fugitive literature or knowledge on the fringe.          information second rather than first, or in reading the
                                                                                     This includes, in particular, materials from conferences,     manual for a program rather than assuming that the
                                                                                     workshops and seminars th at in the past have                 program itself will teach us to use it. Today’s older folk
                                                                                     la nguished in the archives of small, specialized             were “socialized” differently from their kids, and are
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                                                                                     associations and scholarly societies. Often relegated to      now in the process of learning a new language. And a
                                                                                     obscure collections or recast for traditional venues,         language learned later in life, scientists tell us, goes into
                                                                                     they now are becoming available through the Internet          a different part of the brain.
                                                                                     in a variety of formats.
                                                                                        The rise of semantic search engines makes these              A language learned later in life,
                                                                                     visible to the larger community of researchers and
                                                                                     students, yet one cannot ascertain whether these are            scientists tell us, goes into a different
                                                                                     critical or serve only to increase the information              part of the brain
                                                                                     overload. We are facing a world where the cost per bit
                                                                                     of information is getting cheaper, while the cost of a
                                                                                     useful bit may be exceedingly costly. In such a world,        There are hundreds of examples of the digital immigrant
                                                                                     where fiscal resources are limited, how does The              accent. They include printing out your e-mail (or having
                                                                                     Academy cope?                                                 your secretary print it out for you – an even “thicker”
                                                                                        Addit ionally, campu ses, ma ny of which have              accent); needing to print out a document written on the
                                                                                     embraced the delivery of knowledge through a variety          computer in order to edit it (rather than just editing on
                                                                                     of IT products and processes, including the Internet,         the screen); and bringing people physically into your
                                                                                     are faced with shifting library u sage, including             office to see an interesting Web site (rather than just
                                                                                     decreased use of both the physical space and print            sending them the URL). I’m sure that you can think of
                                                                                     resources. There is increasing concern that end users         one or two examples of your own without much effort.
                                                                                     will seek no further than electronic sources and that         My own favorite example is the “Did you get my e-mail?”
                                                                                     the traditional social functions of a campus library          phone call. Those of us who are Digital Immigrants can,
                                                                                     may yield to lessons learned from the larger booksellers      and should, laugh at ourselves and our “accent.”
                                                                                     with their coffee-houses.                                        But this is not just a joke. It’s very serious, because
                                                                                        Thus, OTH itself becomes a probe into the venerable        the single biggest problem facing education today is
                                                                                     publishing institution and a sensor as to what might lie      that our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an
                                                                                     ahead in the arena of academic publishing. What,              outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are
                                                                                     indeed, are the implications for The Academy? What is         struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely
                                                                                     the function of print in The Academy? What do                 new language.
                                                                                     traditional publishing and the growing number of                 This is obvious to the Digital Natives – school often
                                                                                     scholarly electronic jou rnals imply? With the                feels pretty much as if we’ve brought in a population of
                                                                                     exponential growth of various forms of e-learning             heavily accented, unintelligible foreigners to lecture
                                                                                     accessible to both on- and off-campus students, for           them. They often can’t understand what the Immigrants
                                                                                     what should the “building fund” be used – clicks or           are saying. What does “dial” a number mean, anyway?
                                                                                     bricks? Do we see the future through the eyes of a               Lest this perspective appear radical, rather than just
                                                                                     cyber immigrant or a cyber native?                            descriptive, let me highlight some of the issues. Digital
                                                                                        On the Horizon will be looking in depth at these hard      Natives are used to receiving information really fast.
                                                                                     questions and others, as our scanning radar is amplified      They like to parallel process and multi-task. They
                                                                                     with the resources of Emerald and our expanded                prefer their graphics before their text rather than the
                                                                                     format allows a more critical interpretation. l               opposite. They prefer random access (like hypertext).

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They function best when networked. They thrive on             read from their textbooks. I quit.” In the giddy Internet
                                                                                                       instant gratification and frequent rewards. They prefer       bubble of a only a few months ago – when jobs were
                                                                                                       games to “serious” work. (Does any of this sound              plentiful, especially in the areas where school offered
                                                                                                       familiar?)                                                    little help – this was a real possibility. But the dot-com
                                                                                                                                                                     drop-outs are now returning to school. They will have
                                                                                                                                                                     to confront once again the Immigrant/Native divide,
                                                                                                         Digital N atives are used to receiving                      and have even more trou ble, g iven their recent
                                                                                                                                                                     experiences. And that will make it even harder to teach
                                                                                                         inform ation really fast.T hey like to
                                                                                                                                                                     them – and all the Digital Natives already in the system
                                                                                                         parallel process and m ulti-task                            – in the traditional fashion.
                                                                                                                                                                        So what should happen? Should the Digital Native
                                                                                                       But Digital Immigrants t ypically have very little            students learn the old ways, or should their Digital
                                                                                                       appreciation for these new skills that the Natives have       Immigrant educators learn the new? Unfortunately, no
                                                                                                       acquired and perfected though years of interaction and        matter how much the Immigrants may wish it, it is
                                                                                                       practice. These skills are almost totally foreign to the      highly unlikely tha t the Digital Na tives will go
                                                                                                       Immigrants, who themselves learned – and so choose            backwards. In the first place, it may be impossible –
                                                                                                       to teach – slowly, step-by-step, one thing at a time,         their brains may already be different. It also flies in the
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                                                                                                       individually, and above all seriously. “My students just      face of everything we know about cultural migration.
                                                                                                       don’t _____ like they used to,” Digital Immigrant             Kids born into any new culture learn the new language
                                                                                                       educators grouse. I can’t get them to ____ or to ____.        easily, and forcefully resist using the old. Smart adult
                                                                                                       They have no appreciation for _____ or _____ . (Fill in       immigrants accept that they don’t know about their
                                                                                                       the blanks – there are a wide variety of choices.)            new world and take advantage of their kids to help
                                                                                                          Digital Immigrants don’t believe that their students       them learn and integrate. Not-so-smart (or not-so-
                                                                                                       can learn successfully while watching TV or listening to      flexible) immigrants spend most of their time grousing
                                                                                                       music, because they (the Immigrants) can’t. Of course         about how good things were in the “old country.”
                                                                                                       not – they didn’t practice this skill constantly for all of      So, unless we want to just forget about educating
                                                                                                       their formative years. Digital Immigrants think that          Digital Natives until they grow up and do it themselves,
                                                                                                       learning can’t (or shouldn’t) be fun. Why should they?        we had better confront this issue. And in so doing we
                                                                                                       They didn’t spend their formative years learning with         need to reconsider both our methodology and our
                                                                                                       Sesame Street.                                                content.
                                                                                                          Unfortunately for our Digital Immigrant teachers,             First, our methodology. Today’s teachers have to
                                                                                                       the people sitting in their classes grew up on the            learn to communicate in the language and style of their
                                                                                                       “twitch speed” of video games and MTV. They are used          students. This doesn’t mean changing the meaning of
                                                                                                       to the instantaneity of hypertext, downloaded music,          what is important, or of good thinking skills. But it
                                                                                                       phones in their pockets, a library on their laptops,          does mean going faster, less step-by step, more in parallel,
                                                                                                       beamed messages and instant messaging. They’ve been           with more random access, a mong other things.
                                                                                                       networked most or all of their lives. They have little        Educators might ask, “But how do we teach logic in
                                                                                                       patience for lectures, step-by-step logic, and “tell-test”    this fashion?” While it’s not immediately clear, we do
                                                                                                       instruction.                                                  need to figure it out.
                                                                                                          Digital Immigrant teachers assume that learners are
                                                                                                       the same as they have always been, and that the same
                                                                                                       methods that worked for the teachers when they were             N ot-so-sm art im m igrants spend m ost
                                                                                                       students will work for their students now. But that             of their tim e grousing about how good
                                                                                                       assumption is no longer valid. Today’s learners are
                                                                                                       different. “Www.hungry.com,” said a kindergarten                things w ere in the “old country”
                                                                                                       student recently at lunch-time. “Every time I go to
                                                                                                       school I have to power down,” complains a high-school
                                                                                                       student. Is it that Digital Natives can’t pay attention, or   Second, our content. It seems to me that after the digital
                                                                                                       that they choose not to? Often from the Natives’ point        “singularity” there are now two kinds of content:
                                                                                                       of view their Digital Immigrant instructors make their        “Legacy” content (to borrow the computer term for old
                                                                                                       education not worth paying attention to compared              systems) and “Future” content.
                                                                                                       with everything else they experience – and then they             “Legacy” content includes reading, writing, arithmetic,
                                                                                                       blame them for not paying attention!                          logical thinking, understanding the writings and ideas
                                                                                                          And, more and more, they won’t take it. “I went to a       of the past, etc. – all of our “traditional” curriculum. It
                                                                                                       highly ranked college where all the professors came           is of course still important, but it is from a different era.
                                                                                                       from MIT,” says a former student. “But all they did was       Some of it (such as logical thinking) will continue to be

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                                                                                         On the Horizon • September/October 2001
important, but some (perhaps like Euclidean geometry)         him is to use the CAD software, which the learner must
                                                                                     will become less so, as did Latin and Greek.                  employ to build tools, fix weapons, and defeat booby-
                                                                                        “Future” content is to a large extent, not surprisingly,   traps. There is one hour of game time, plus 30 “tasks,”
                                                                                     digital and technological. But, while it includes software,   which can take from 15 minutes to several hours,
                                                                                     hardware, robotics, nanotechnology, genomics, etc., it        depending on one’s experience level.
                                                                                     also includes the ethics, politics, sociology, languages         Monkey Wrench has been phenomenally successful in
                                                                                     and other things that go with them. This “Future”             getting young people interested in learning the software.
                                                                                     content is extremely interesting to today’s students. But     It is widely used by engineering students around the
                                                                                     how many Digital Immigrants are prepared to teach it?         world, with over 1 million copies of the game in print
                                                                                     Someone once suggested to me that kids should only            in several languages. But, while the game was easy for
                                                                                     be allowed to use computers in school that they have          my Digital Native staff to invent, creating the content
                                                                                     built themselves. It’s a brilliant idea that is very doable   turned out to be more difficult for the professors, who
                                                                                     from the point of view of the students’ capabilities. But     were used to teaching courses that started with “Lesson
                                                                                     who could teach it?                                           1 – the Interface.” We asked them instead to create a
                                                                                                                                                   series of graded tasks, into which the skills to be
                                                                                       “Legacy” content includes reading,                          learned were embedded. The professors had made five-
                                                                                       writing, arithm etic , logical thinking,                    to-ten-minute movies to illustrate key concepts; we
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                                                                                                                                                   asked them to cut them to under 30 seconds. The
                                                                                       understanding the w ritings and ideas                       professors insisted that the learners do all the tasks in
                                                                                       of the past                                                 order; we asked them to allow random access. They
                                                                                                                                                   wanted a slow, academic pace; we wanted speed and
                                                                                     As educators, we need to be thinking about how to             urgency (we hired a Hollywood scriptwriter to provide
                                                                                     teach both Legacy and Future content in the language          this.) They wanted written instructions; we wanted
                                                                                     of the Digital Natives. The first involves a major            computer movies. They wanted the tradit ional
                                                                                     translation and change of methodology; the second             pedagogical language of “learning objectives,” “mastery”,
                                                                                     involves all that plus new content and thinking. It’s not     etc. (e.g. “in this exercise you will learn …”); our goal
                                                                                     actually clear to me which is harder – “learning new          was to completely eliminate any language that even
                                                                                     stuff ” or “learning new ways to do old stuff.” I suspect     smacked of education.
                                                                                     that it’s the latter.
                                                                                        So we have to invent, but not necessarily from               Their creation was so m uch better
                                                                                     scratch. Adapting materials to the language of Digital
                                                                                                                                                     than w hat people were currently
                                                                                     Natives has already been done successfully. My own
                                                                                     preference for teaching Digital Natives is to invent            using that they had assum ed that the
                                                                                     computer games to do the job, even for the most
                                                                                                                                                     entire engineering w orld w ould quickly
                                                                                     serious content. After all, it’s an idiom with which most
                                                                                     of them are totally familiar.                                   adopt it
                                                                                        Not long ago a group of professors showed up at my
                                                                                     company with new computer-aided design (CAD)                  In the end the professors and their staff came through
                                                                                     software they had developed for mechanical engineers.         brilliantly but because of the large mind-shift required
                                                                                     Their creation was so much better than what people            it took them twice as long as we had expected. As they
                                                                                     were currently using that they had assumed that the           saw the approach working, though, the new “Digital
                                                                                     entire engineering world would quickly adopt it. But          Native” methodology became their model for more
                                                                                     instead they encountered a lot of resistance, due in          and more teaching – both in and out of games – and
                                                                                     large part to the product’s extremely steep learning          their development speed increased dramatically.
                                                                                     curve – the software contained hundreds of new                   Similar rethinking needs to be applied to all subjects
                                                                                     buttons, options and approaches to master.                    at all levels. Although most attempts at “edutainment”
                                                                                        Their marketers, however, had a brilliant idea.            to date have essentially failed from both the education
                                                                                     Observing that the users of CAD software were almost          and the entertainment perspective, we can – and will, I
                                                                                     exclusively male engineers between 20 and 30, they            predict – do much better.
                                                                                     said, “Why not make the learning into a video game!”             In math, for example, the debate must no longer be
                                                                                     So we invented and created for them a computer game           about whether to use calculators and computers – they
                                                                                     in the “first person shooter” style of the consumer           are a part of the Digital Natives’ world – but rather
                                                                                     games Doom and Quake, called The Monkey Wrench                how to use them to instill the things that are useful to
                                                                                     Conspiracy. Its player becomes an inter-galactic secret       have internalized, from key skills and concepts to the
                                                                                     agent who has to save a space station from an attack by       multiplication tables. We should be focusing on “future
                                                                                     the evil Dr Monkey Wrench. The only way to defeat             math” – approximation, statistics, binary thinking.

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                                                                                                                                                                                 On the Horizon • September/October 2001
In geography – which is all but ignored these days –
                                                                                                       there is no reason why a generation that can memorize          Legacy-based
                                                                                                       over 100 Pokémon characters with all t heir
                                                                                                       characteristics, history and evolution can’t learn the
                                                                                                       names, populations, capitals and relationships of all the
                                                                                                                                                                      Thinking II: Resisting
                                                                                                       101 nations in the world. It just depends on how it is
                                                                                                       presented.
                                                                                                                                                                      New Tools and
                                                                                                          We need to invent Digital Native methodologies for
                                                                                                       all subjects, at all levels, using our students to guide us.
                                                                                                                                                                      Competencies
                                                                                                       The pro cess has already begun – I know college                Arthur Harkins
                                                                                                       professors inventing games for teaching subjects               University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
                                                                                                       ranging from math to engineering to the Spanish                harki001@um n.edu
                                                                                                       Inquisition. We need to find ways of publicizing and
                                                                                                       spreading their successes.                                     George Kubik
                                                                                                          A frequent objection I hear from Digital Immigrant          University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
                                                                                                       educators is “this approach is great for facts, but it         kubi0021@um n.edu
                                                                                                       wouldn’t work for ‘my subject.’” Nonsense. This is just
                                                                                                                                                                      Introduction
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                                                                                                       rationalization and lack of imagination. In my talks I
                                                                                                       now include “thought experiments”, where I invite              This is the sixth article in our series projecting a shift
                                                                                                       professors and teachers to suggest a subject or topic,         from learning to perform to performing to learn. This
                                                                                                       and I attempt – on the spot – to invent a game or other        article summarizes and comments upon the last of
                                                                                                       Digital Native metho d for learning it. Classical              three story-writing exercises undertaken by 166
                                                                                                       philosophy? Create a game in which the philosophers            Minnesota public school administrators in late January
                                                                                                       debate and the learners have to pick out what each             2001.
                                                                                                       would say. The Holocaust? Create a simulation where

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                                                                                                       students role-play the meeting at Wannsee, or one
                                                                                                                                                                         n all of our a rticles we have argued t hat
                                                                                                       where they can experience the true horror of the
                                                                                                                                                                         performance-based learning (PBL) can effectively
                                                                                                       camps, as opposed to the films like Schindler’s List. It’s
                                                                                                                                                                         create learning in the context of tasks supported by
                                                                                                       just dumb (and lazy) of educators – not to mention
                                                                                                                                                                         distributed competence (DC) software. We have
                                                                                                       ineffective – to presume that (despite their traditions)
                                                                                                                                                                      submitted that PBL is a process that encourages
                                                                                                       the Digital Immigrant way is the only way to teach, and
                                                                                                                                                                      learning based on authentic performances supported
                                                                                                       that the Digital Natives’ “language” is not as capable as
                                                                                                                                                                      by DC software, and that such learning should lead to
                                                                                                       their own of encompassing any and every idea.
                                                                                                                                                                      performance u pgrades and innovations in task
                                                                                                          So if Digital Immigrant educators really want to
                                                                                                                                                                      conception and accomplishment. Such upgrades and
                                                                                                       reach Digital Natives – i.e. all their students – they will
                                                                                                                                                                      innovations are not guaranteed; they are potentials in
                                                                                                       have to change. It’s high time for them to stop their
                                                                                                                                                                      the futures of human performers and their networked
                                                                                                       grousing and, as the Nike motto of the Digital Native
                                                                                                                                                                      DC software.
                                                                                                       generation says, “Just do it!” They will succeed in the
                                                                                                                                                                         How did the public school administrators in our
                                                                                                       long run – and their successes will come that much
                                                                                                                                                                      workshop sample respond to the prospects of PBL in
                                                                                                       sooner if their administrators support them.
                                                                                                                                                                      both the school and the work venues? Were they
                                                                                                                                                                      hopeful that PBL-driven schools might produce better
                                                                                                       Next issue
                                                                                                                                                                      prospects for the workforce? Could these prospects be
                                                                                                       The scientific evidence behind the Digital Natives’
                                                                                                                                                                      produced earlier, and demonstrate superior ability to
                                                                                                       thinking changes, and the evidence that Digital Native-
                                                                                                                                                                      perform tasks and compete successfully against new
                                                                                                       style learning works!
                                                                                                                                                                      and incumbent workers?
                                                                                                       NOTE
                                                                                                                                                                        PBL can effectively create learning in
                                                                                                       Marc Prensky is the author of Digital Game-Based
                                                                                                       Learning (McGraw-Hill, 2001) and Founder and CEO                 the context of tasks supported by D C
                                                                                                       of Games2Train.com The Monkey Wrench Conspiracy
                                                                                                                                                                        software
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