Tech Tuesday

I am a digital immigrant-that is a fairly fluent user of computer applications, and too often player of silly Facebook games-but I will never be a digital native like today's young people.  This divide between adults/children and teachers/students intrigues me because it mirrors the chasm between second language learners and native speakers.   We may use the same devices, but our cultural understanding is quite different.

Watching this video challenged some of my assumptions about computers as neutral, or even negative, tools in building relationships among learners in the same classroom.  Take a look and let me know what you think.---Toni

http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html