Technology, Modern or Medieval?

Reading and viewing the material for this week has made me aware that especially the reading was 

written by a digital immigrant. Their tenancies are those of a person looking in on the digital 

immigrant world and not of someone who grew up in the technological world their entire life. We all have to accept that technology is changing the way we live for better or worse, and Prensky is correct in saying that the education system has to reflect this. Many successful school systems are attempting to provide this new education environment to their students, but impoverished school systems are struggling. The problem is the equipment to create a digital native friendly environment costs more than what the school systems can afford. Many companies and corporations have accepted the technological age. Applicants have to diligent on what their digital imprint is, and weather their Facebook and other social media outlets portray a person companies would want to hire. With more access comes more responsibility, and review required of the information portrayed. The article written by Prensky has a very interesting approach to linking the Digital Immigrants to the Digital Natives. He proposes that a student should b able to access computers and technology once they are able to build a computer themselves. This would be a very informative and effective way of teaching students a new skill, but only to the extent of attempting to have a student think in a "immigrant" step by step manner while applying it to technology. This will create a space where the teacher will be able to apply their method of teaching and learning to the modern age, instead of encouraging students to think and develop strategies of learning of their own.