Traditional teaching methods are failing today’s students, according to the man who coined the term “digital native“.
Marc Prensky, the US author of Teaching Digital Natives, who is giving a lecture on the subject at Bournemouth University next week, called for pedagogy to become a partnership between students and educators.
“In order to teach effectively, we need to use a different pedagogy than in the past,” he told Times Higher Education.
“Students should do the things that they do best, like finding things and using technology and creating, and teachers should do what they do best – asking questions, ensuring rigour and context,” he said.
His comments came as Martin Hall, the vice-chancellor of the University of Salford, criticised those who used the term “digital native” – a common label for the generation that has grown up with technology – “as if everyone born after 1980 deploys new technologies in characteristic ways”.
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Mbinu za jadi za kufundisha zinashindwa wanafunzi wa leo, kulingana na mtu ambaye alianzisha neno <unk>digital native<unk>. Marc Prensky, mwandishi wa kitabu Teaching Digital Natives, ambaye ametoa hotuba kuhusu suala hilo katika Chuo Kikuu cha Bournemouth wiki ijayo, ametoa wito kwa elimu kuwa ushirikiano kati ya wanafunzi na walimu. "Ili kufundisha kwa ufanisi, tunahitaji kutumia pedagogy tofauti kuliko zamani", aliambia Times Higher Education. "Wanafunzi wanapaswa kufanya mambo wanayofanya vizuri, kama vile kupata vitu na kutumia teknolojia na kuunda, na walimu wanapaswa kufanya kile wanachofanya vizuri - kuuliza maswali, kuhakikisha ukali na muktadha, ""alisema." "Martin Hall, makamu wa kansela wa Chuo Kikuu cha Salford, alisema kuwa ""watoto wa teknolojia"" ni jina la kizazi ambacho kimezaliwa baada ya 1980 na wanajua jinsi ya kutumia teknolojia mpya." Soma hadithi nzima.