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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

How Digital Natives Process Information in the Classroom. Prensky wrote that digital natives are used to receiving information quickly, and they are used to multitasking. The good news is this doesn’t mean teachers need to be intimately familiar with every new form of tech or social media platform. Reissman, H. “7

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Technology and Digital Media in the Classroom: A Guide for Educators

Waterford

Instead, view it as a tool that can inform and supplement lessons, and even then, only if teachers and administrators are well trained in its use. 16] Use the technology you do have to supplement your lessons and provide students with information you may not otherwise be able to access. They may just teach you something new![8].