Chapter 5 Blog Post

Chapter Five of Tapscott's book shows how we are learners because we are constantly exposed to different types of technological literature. "Instead of lecturing, teachers should interact with students and help them discover for themselves." I think that this is important because student's should learn to be independent and discover their own paths. Now that we have all these options to learn in a different way, the teachers should be using new methods involving technology to keep up with our way of learning. Since our world is every changing, our subjects need to adjust and change according to the skills we need to learn. This could be because many of our teachers are an older generation and think that the old methods are better, but in our generation we use technology more to learn. "Schools should be places to learn, not to teach." is also a important quote because it shows that we should be learning new things not teaching old things to people who don't know how to do them. A students job is to learn, and because of technology, we know more then ever and still need teachers to keep on teaching new things that cannot be learned behind a computer screen. I think Tapscott made some very good points in chapter five.

Net Gen Analysis: Chapter 1

" People become defensive when threatened by something new and which they don’t

understand". That is the sole reason that our generation is criticized. We are the Net Gen and our critics do not see the bright future that we have. Our values have changed and the older generation does not want to accept it. I believe that Tapscott is correct to try and learn to use technology everyday like most of us teenagers and children do. " To them, technology is like the air." We do not think of technology as a luxury, we think of it as part of our life. Our ever changing technology is like the change in music over the years. We went from the swinger Frank Sinatra, to the peaceful Beatles, to the uncensored rap music that we listen to today. That comparison can represent a small way in how our world adapts. However, technology does not make us lazy and stupid, but instead connects us to people we would had never imagined talking to twenty years ago! We are actually smart and we have access to things older generations never had access too. Overall, I thought that Tapscott summed up our world pretty well.