Hi people!

Welcome to my updated blog! Here I will write about Material Design and reflect upon the use of new technologies in the English classroom.
Here I share a video that shows us how 21st century education is or should be...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O35n_tvOK74

This video called "21st Century Education" tells us all we need to know about teaching and learning nowadays. And it made me think about Marc Prensky article, which I read a long time ago, and I read again yesterday, about how education and students have changed.
Prensky says that "today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach" and that a radical change should be made in the way we teach to them. He speaks about two opposing concepts related to people and technology. He uses the concept of "Digital Natives" to describe the "new" students of today, saying they are "native speakers" of the digital and technological language of Internet, computers, video games and mobile phones. They are used to receive information really fast, they like socialising through networks, they prefer games to "serious" work, they like working with many things at the same time, etc.
On the other hand, he speaks of "Digital Immigrant" teachers who assume that learners are the same as they have always been, and think that the same methods that worked for them as students will be effective now with their students. These Digital Immigrants don't think that learners can learn in a successful way while watching TV or listening to music because they themselves can't. That is why Prensky states that we as teachers should confront this issue, especially the ones who feels as Digital Immigrants, and reconsider both our methodology and our content. Just as the video suggests us to do in this technological era.
I have to say I feel as a Digital Immigrant, since I'm one of those people who don't like spending too much time in front of the computer, not for working neither for chatting, playing games or reading any texts. I just prefer books or copies. Or I prefer a hundred of time spending time watching TV instead of being surfing the Internet. So, I need to say that this question of having a blog is a BIG challenge for me and I hope to learn lot of things.