Prensky Response 2.3

This response addresses Chapter 10 and the Conclusion (p. 175-190) in Marc Prensky’s book Teaching Digital Natives. “Go forth and partner” is Prensky’s final statement. In your current career position, what steps can you take now to partner with students, parents, other educators, and globally? My current career position is not in a school or…

Prensky Response 2.2

“It is almost impossible to get anything that is both complex and highly people dependent right the first time. So it is important that partnering teachers and their students start somewhere and iterate, removing things that don’t work, trying new things, taking the inevitable ups and downs that come with any complex task in stride, always reviewing whatever happens, and working to continuously improve.”

Prensky Response 2.1

Technology is just a tool — a set of “nouns” — for accomplishing the “verbs” of school — problem-solving, communication, analysis, investigation. In the partnering relationship, where the teacher sets the guiding questions and students determine how they will answer them, technology offers students a garage full of vehicles which they can take toward those answers.