Review of Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Article

In this article, the author is describing how the world is different from the world of previous generations. Mr. Prensky goes on to describe how the people of the pre-millennial and the millennial generations think and how they perform tasks differently. He states that even the way the millennial generations talk is different from the previous generations. Today’s students generally are able to multi task and have little patience for slow paced lectures.
I felt that the he author of “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” had a rather harsh view of the pre-millennial generations. It seemed as though the author was belittling the skills of earlier generations. The earlier generation’s skills could be viewed as just as important as the computer and technology skills of the millennialists. I also disagreed with the author in that he believed that the millennialists are able to multi-task better than prior generations. While it would appear that they are able to multi-task better, it is my belief that humans can only attend to one task at a time. Yes, we can multi-task, but not well. Texting and talking on the cell phone while driving a car has become a major problem. As a result there have been many car accidents. New laws are being written to prevent the use of cell phones while driving.Reference:Prensky, M. (2001). Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants. On the Horizon (Vol. 9 No. 5).NCB University Press.