Jack is starting his first day at University today. He's still tired from his flight over from Spain where he lives. He turned up 7 hours early for a delayed flight because he didnt check the delay times through the computer/TV.
Jack doesnt really know where he is meant to be going today, as he isnt that good at English yet. He has a translator all sorted to help him with this! However, it means he wont know where he is going till he turns up because the letters he has recieved are in English and he refuses to input them into computer.
When Jack's translator turns up and directs him to his first seminar, they are all sat around computers and are activating their University accounts. Jack's never touched a computer before and automatically becomes panicked and emmbarassed when he doesnt know how to switch it on. Great he thinks, these people are never going to befriend me now!
Once everyone's got over their initial shock that Jack doesnt do technology, people start to swap mobile numbers etc so they can all arrange a night out through the week. Jack doesnt have a mobile number, or any other way to find out about the night out other than meeting up with someone so they can tell him direct the plans, no-one offers to do this and he doesnt want to be rude and ask.
Feeling left out he goes home and then makes a 20 minute trek to the nearest phone box to ring his parents to make himself feel better, mid-conversation the phone goes dead and he hasnt got anymore money on him to put in the slot.
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I think you picked on some of the great frustrations that come hand in hand with new media technologies Megan. I think that embarrassment is key to the nativity debate when you don't possess the understandings that are expected of you; a failure to acknowledge that everyone learns differently, at different paces.
I agree! I guess that could work both ways in relation to Prensky's theory. By making students learn on computers, they wont ever face the emmbarassment in future life that they cant work computers etc, but they may be emmbarassed if they cant get the hang of how to use computers...... but I suppose children might already get emmbarassed if they dont pick up writing etc as quickly as others so it would be the same... but they'd have so much more to learn and other abilities may suffer, i.e writing skills!
I agrre with both of you here! But i also think its not just not knowing how to use a computer that may be embarrassing for people. I think that people may also be embarressed if they don't own the up to dtae technology because their parents can't afford it. For me personally when i am using my old phone i am slightly embarressed because it is not as new and as stylish as my new one.
This is aslo why i think that class will come into the debate of Preskys work because if they make it so schools only use technology as the main way to learn students who are not as fortuenate and don't have the technology at home and don't know how to use it may get bullied.
Yeah, You're right Kathryn. I considered a little while ago about the whole class thing when we first started reading about Prensky's theory but forgot about that side of it.
I think Prensky's theory would have a lot to answer too if schools went all technological mad!
Yeah, You're right Kathryn. I considered a little while ago about the whole class thing when we first started reading about Prensky's theory but forgot about that side of it.
I think Prensky's theory would have a lot to answer too if schools went all technological mad!
Good thread!
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