How Students May Think Different Today

 Prensky's argument sums up the idea that students today are "digital natives", and that today's students have completely different thinking patterns than students in the past. In the past, students resorted to physical textbooks and physical homework in order to learn subject, study them, and apply their knowledge. Today's students prefer online learning tutorials on different platforms, and digital forms of homework. 

However, Kirschner argues that Prensky's argument is not entirely truthful. Prensky claims that multitasking is an effective way to learn material. Kirschner provides the idea that multitasking actually lowers the efficiency of students who use multitasking for learning. Another myth that Kirschner has discussed is the idea that "digital natives" prefer to use digital learning for everything. This is not the case, as a lot of students prefer to hand-write homework and write notes as they are learning. "What actually happens is that one rapidly switches between tasks, which causes information processing and task performance to suffer (e.g., Kirschner & Karpinski, 2010)" (Kirshner et al.)

References

Kirschner, P. A., & De Bruyckere, P. (2017). The myths of the digital native and the multitasker. Teaching and Teacher Education, 67, 135–142

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