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Today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.

Today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.

Marc Prensky
Educational, People, Today
Marc Prensky (2012). “From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom: Hopeful Essays for 21st Century Learning”, p.68, Corwin Press

We live in a screen age, and to say to a kid, ‘I’d love for you to look at a book but I hate it when you look at the screen’ is just bizarre. It reflects our own prejudices and comfort zone. It’s nothing but fear of change, of being left out.

Marc Prensky
Hate, Book, Kids

Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language

Marc Prensky
Struggle, Age, Digital
Marc Prensky (2012). “From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom: Hopeful Essays for 21st Century Learning”, p.69, Corwin Press

Let's admit the real reason that we ban cell phones is that, given the opportunity to use them, students would vote with their attention, just as adults would 'vote with their feet' by leaving the room when a presentation is not compelling.

Marc Prensky
Education, Real, Opportunity

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