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In het online journal Innovate deze keer een artikel van Marc Prensky. Het artikel heeft als titel: H. sapiens digital: From digital immigrants and digital natives to digital wisdom.

In het artikel geeft Marc Prensky een vervolg aan zijn artikelen over digital immigrants en digital natives:

In 2001, I published "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants," a two-part article that explained these terms as a way of understanding the deep differences between the young people of today and many of their elders (Prensky 2001a, 2001b). Although many have found the terms useful, as we move further into the 21st century, into an age in which most people will be digital natives, the distinction between digital natives and digital immigrants is becoming less relevant. Clearly, as we work to create and improve the future, we need to imagine a new set of distinctions. I suggest we think in terms of digital wisdom. 

Volgens hem gaan we op weg naar digital wisdom:

Digital technology, I believe, can be used to make us not just smarter but truly wiser. Digital wisdom is a twofold concept, referring both to wisdom arising from the use of digital technology to access cognitive power beyond our innate capacity and to wisdom in the prudent use of technology to enhance our capabilities.

 Zijn voornaamste punt is dat digital immigrants ook digital wisdom kunnen hebben. Zij kunnen dit aanleren. Hij noemt deze Homo Sapiens Digital:

Homo sapiens digital, then, differs from today's human in two key aspects: He or she accepts digital enhancement as an integral fact of human existence, and he or she is digitally wise, both in the considered way he or she accesses the power of digital enhancements to complement innate abilities and in the way in which he or she uses enhancements to facilitate wiser decision making. Digital wisdom transcends the generational divide defined by the immigrant/native distinction. Many digital immigrants exhibit digital wisdom.

Als voorbeelden van digital immigrants die digital wisdom hebben noemt hij Obama en Rupert Murdoch.

Al met al een interesant artikel van Marc Prensky.

Reference:

Prensky, M. 2009. H. sapiens digital: From digital immigrants and digital natives to digital wisdom. Innovate 5 (3). http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=705 (accessed February 1, 2009).