In this piece, I was to provide a 100 word critique on two of my fellow classmates blog posts. Below is a copy of their name, student number, blog link, original blog post with the driving question and my critique underneath.
Happy reading!
Danika Rait
S00216031
Is There More To Online Games Than Fun?
"Online technology has advanced so much that children are able to use it in classrooms as well as at home. Online games have developed to be more than just fun. The generation of ‘digital native’ children have grown up with technology being so natural to them. When incorporating learning based objectives and motor skills, it can possibly have a significant impact on individual’s development. An article by Marc Prensky: Digital Game-Based Learning(2003), speaks about how the children of the 21st century, are not drawn to the violence of online games but are to the learning that the games can provide. Children that are going into grade 1 have been seen to recognize and quickly pick up new games and due to the basic understanding that they have.
Besides fun there are many positives that come with online gaming for children. Looking deeper than the colours and characters, children can develop their motor skills. This is through understanding complex puzzles, overcoming obstacles and learning to collaborate with others. These skills can assist the generation through school and even though to their future careers.
Online games can vary in so many ways. With new developments coming out all the time, we can now personalise these games. If a child needs to focus on a certain area, games can fill those needs. In a classroom environment, this can be extremely helpful. When playing multiplayer games, it assist with filling the fire and achieving better than other classmates. A great website to use in the classroom is http://www.coolmath-games.com/. The range of educational games can be extremely fun and enjoyable for teachers and students.
Figure 1, Cool Maths Games, (Constructive Media, 2017) ©
With my experience creating an online game, I have found that there are so many ways that you can integrate motor skills such as hand eye coordination and better the learning performances of children. Using bright colours and fun characters, I could make the object of the games simple but have the obstacles changes size and speed to increase skill level. "
Prensky, M. (2003) Games2train: Digital Game-Based Learning, 1(1). Retrieved from, https://goo.gl/FC4jZJ
My Response:
Danika, you have provided an essential understanding of the key concepts of the driving question. You gave your direct opinion and justified it adequately, I genuinely liked that you provided a website based example that children use constantly in schools. This prime example demonstrates your knowledge substantially.
However, I noticed you used only 1 reference; although having excess amounts of references can also be unfavourable, when only using 1 reference this can demonstrate a lack of research and authenticity on your behalf. If you decide to rewrite this driving question response, I would recommend venturing out to find more reliable sources on top of the one you already have.
You should definitely check out http://www.teachthought.com/learning/why-people-play-video-games/ it’s a great website to understand why people play video games that you could add to your piece
Overall great piece and great work!
Michael Ringin
S00218909
S00218909
"Our society, being in the middle of the largest and swiftest technological revolution of human history, has seen a great division. Two categories of people have been reborn into the 21st century. Firstly, the one who knows how to operate the new post-modern technologies. This is one who has the fingers of speed. They know where every letter is on a keyboard instinctively. They discover and collect information not through hours of library searching, but with their personal, electronic, pocket-sized encyclopaedia. This is the native, specifically the “digital native”. Marc Prensky identifies them as “the first generations to grow up with this new technology” (Prensky, 2001). As the agricultural native knows how to grow food from the ground, the digital native instinctively knows how to operate smartphones, tablets, and computers.
The second “new” person has...well…struggled with these new technologies. They are quite easily identifiable, holding their phone with one hand and use the other to type, rather slowly when compared to the digital native who holds their phone with their fingers and type with their thumbs. It’s not that they will never figure out this new technology, they just need a lot more time than their stereotypically younger humans. This is the “digital immigrant”. Much like all immigrants, with time and experience they will adapt to their new environment and integrate into the community. “Older boomers did not grow up in a digital world, and yet are increasingly becoming online students” (Ransdell et al, 2010). The digital immigrant will fade out and become native, just like everything in human history. What remains to be seen is when the next native and immigrant conflict will begin, and what it will entail. Maybe space flight, maybe time travel. Who knows? The only thing that is known is that during great technological advancements and inventions, there is always an immigrant, and always a native."
Reference List
Prensky, M. (2001) Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part 1. On the Horizon Vol. 9 Issue 5. Retrieved 3 September 2017 from http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/10748120110424816
Ransdell, S. Kent, B. Gaillard-Kenney, S. & Long, J. (2010) Digital immigrants fare better than digital natives due to social reliance. Retrieved 3 September 2017 fromhttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy2.acu.edu.au/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2010.01137.x/full
Sfarnas Animation. (2009) A Boy and his Blog. Retrieved 4 September 2017 fromhttps://brookesaltmarsh.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/digitalnativesandimigrants1-1n5cbfq.jpg
My Response:
Michael, you gave an exceptional understanding of the difference between a Digital Native and a Digital Immigrant, you answered the driving question with a great understanding of the topic and it showed throughout your answer. I liked that you recognised that “digital immigrants will soon fade out” and the wide range, although not excess amounts, of references you used.
If you decide to rewrite this driving question response, I would recommend discussing that digital natives don’t necessarily need to be tech genius’ but rather have the ability to navigate themselves around technology for to improve their own way of life or for their own needs.
You should definitely check out https://www.nature.com/news/the-digital-native-is-a-myth-1.22363 which states that “Digital Natives are a myth”, this can be something you could contend in your final piece.
Overall a great piece, keep it up!
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