Computer-Assisted Language Learning

CALL (IDE 310)

Lecturer : Dr. Fidel ÇAKMAK

prepared by: Hasan KESKİN(11-285-044)

DIGITAL NATIVES - DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS

DIGITAL NATIVES :

-The old educational systems are not suitable for new generation students.

-Today's students have different styles, clothes, body adomments, slang, a different perspective for life.

-They are so fast, they want to reach knowledge quickly.

-They are so smart, they know many ways to reach a knowledge that they want.

-Today's students grow up with a new technology (computers, video games, digital music players, video cams, cell phones, etc. )

-As a result of how they grew up , their brains are working different from us.

-Educators should realize the diffrences of today's  students.

-Today's students are native speaker of the language of the technology.

DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS :

-They are the rest who were not born into the digital world.

-They are not natives of the digital world.

-They learn to adopt a digital world aspect to the their  enviroment.

-Some examples for digital immigrants accents;
   
     * To ask did you get my e-mail ?
     * To ask your secretary to print  your e-mail out for you.

-The problem is how do digital immigrants teach language to digital natives ?