...Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Marc Prensky displays in "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants," the dilemma with our education system at present day is that, the students have gone through a sweeping change and our educational system wasn’t designed to handle or teach this digitalized generation. Prensky advocates that the digitalization that happened in the last decade of the 20th century could be considered as the remarkable leap in the generation gap. The author also distinguishes the two different generations as “digital natives” and “digital immigrants”. Current generation of students who uses more technology and hence they are native speakers of digital language, and those born before the digital era are termed as digital immigrants. He also goes on to say that due to changes in the way the new generation thinks, their brain might also function differently Digital natives are also used to multi tasking, receiving fast information and parallel processing, they are also more interested in graphic than text, these things are new to digital immigrants thus creating a serious issue when it comes to education according to Prensky. Thus the traditional education method doesn’t tend to meet the needs and wants of the digital natives. Pernsky further goes on to distinguish two types of contents “legacy” which was consider till now as important such as math, reading, writing and logic and “future” content which is more digital and technology oriented. Combining the two content...
Words: 282 - Pages: 2
...Report on the Native American The history of the Native American goes as far back as 1492 when Christopher Columbus first came in contact with Native Americans in Bahamas. “The name “indian” was given to them from Christopher Columbus who mistakenly thought he had landed in the “Indies”. (History.com Staff, 2009) How the attitude and image of the Native American people would change with the induction of the early settlers in Virginia in 1607. With the increase in immigration of settlers and the greed of the “white man” to lay claim to Indian lands, violence erupted in their conquest. After the American Revolution, Britain released all of its North American holdings to the United States. The claims of Native Americans were completely eradicated by this action. For a short time, United States regulated under the presumption that the Indians were overthrown, and therefore, had no rights or claims to the land. On May 28, 1830 Congress passes the Indian Removal Act, allowing the president to pursue ownership of all Indian lands east of the Mississippi River. Under this act, the Indians would be paid back with new lands drawn from the public land west of the Mississippi River. President Andrew Jackson was relentless during the 1830s, despite Supreme Court rulings in favor of the Indian Nation, to remove all eastern Indians to land west of the Mississippi River. During Andrew Jackson’s presidency he scheduled to remove over 90,000 Native Americans...
Words: 743 - Pages: 3
...the years the Native American mascot debate is one that has gotten major press. Native Americans are very angry and want to be heard. The tribal names that these natives go by are something that mean very much to them. School boards, and sports teams around the country have used these mascots, and names to define who the team, and or school is. Today, many people see using Native American names for mascots to be racist. These mascots and cultural figures are part of the Native American culture. To go and generalize these people into a sports team that have nothing to do with who they are, is being very prejudice, misleading, and in many ways wrong. Native Americans deserve the right to be heard and understood that their names, tribal figures, and beliefs are theirs. Mascots used to define them bring nothing but racism, shame, stereotyping, and generalization. Many sports teams, schools, and universities in the US have adopted some incarnation of the Native American warrior as their mascot. However, many people, of Native American heritage as well as non-Indians, believe that the portrayals of Native Americans in this manner is a harmful, racist aspect of our culture, and one that we should take strong measures to prevent. It is not wrong for one to say that racism all around the world needs to be put to an end. We as Americans hold ourselves to high standards of being accepting to all ethnicities. It is hard to understand how we are unable to relate to Native Americans and understand...
Words: 2659 - Pages: 11
...Imagine being raised in a Native tribe off the East Coast of America. The year is 1398, surrounding you is a rich abundant land full of wild plants and animals. A close knit family where everyone shares, and greed is almost non existent. Day to day survival is what keeps the mind going, but it is never threatened. As you grow up you learn only of your people, and how the world was made for you and you must return the favor with respect. No one tells you your right or wrong, and there is no doubt in your beliefs being false. On a morning just like any other, you take to your hunting trail. It is very common land and you can walk this with your eyes closed without running into vegetation. The birds whistle a common tune, and you can feel and understand what kind of mood they are in. It is quite, but you can still hear and comprehend so many things as the world talks to you. Movement catches your eye and suddenly a great whitetail bucks jumps across the ravine in a non challant manor chasing does. This buck is known in the tribe, and a kill would bring great spiritual power to the people. The buck pauses as he encounters a new scent, thus creating a opportunity to srike. The crisp red oak bow bends to a rate of optimal power, the arrow which took a day to create is perfection as it sits on the stand. The release is smooth and the feathers cut through the air speeding to the target. It is a clean kill, a sacrificed to be made that does not go un appreciative. The 180lb animal...
Words: 2970 - Pages: 12
...Native Americans The people who first lived in North America can be called American Indians or you can use the term Native Americans. You should not use the terms such as Red Indian or Redskin, because this name originally referred to a specific tribe, the Beothuks, who painted their bodies and faces with red ochre. All of the Native American tribes had some things in common. They lived on the land and they were gathering food in the earliest times and then planting crops later in history. Once they began planting crops, they were able to begin creating villages that were permanent. They all hunted animals. Most of the tribes used as much of the animal as they could. Meat was used for food and Furs and skins were used for clothing and shelters. The stomach of the animal was used to carry and hold water. Bones were used for needles and weapons. All Native American people were very spiritual and they had many religious customs and rituals. They also believed in many gods. They believed in a special relationship with nature. The sun was their most important god. They worshiped the sun because they needed it to grow their crops but they also needed rain, so with that beeing said many had a rain god. Other elements in nature were also worshipped. Most tribes believed in the power of their dreams They were considered to be revelations made by the gods. Most had an important religious leader which some called Shaman wich means medicine man. When Columbus arrived...
Words: 379 - Pages: 2
...The Native America Just the other day in a routine walk to work I overheard a person use the term “A typical American like me”. This stayed with me and had my head spinning the whole day. It kept me wondering, what really can classify a person as a “typical American”, can it be the color of their skin, or the fact that they were born here. In a sense all of us originate from immigrants, the only people that come to mind that were here originally are the Native of Americans. This is a very diverse and multicultural country that has no official religion, culture, or ancestry. It all a melting pot that has a little bit of everything and from and to everybody. What we must take in great consideration that is the origins of America it begins with settlers, arriving to this land and encountering Natives. It is believed that during an Ice Age they traveled a land-bridge across the Bering Sound, from Siberia to what is now known as Alaska today. It is due to Christopher Columbus that they are known as “Indians” this is due to the fact the he believed he had arrived in the Indies. The interaction and trades with the settlers paved the way of nations to born in this continent and with help of Native of Americans the development of these nations. There is a great contribution to the birth of this country be the Native of Americans. However not just to birth but to the development and endurance of time. In the beginning it was Sacajawea who helped Lewis and Clark reached the west...
Words: 1052 - Pages: 5
...The people know today as the American Indian or Native American were in fact the first Americans. They are believed to have originated in Siberian and tracked their way to North America. At this time there were millions of Native Americans all having different languages, cultures, and even religions. They were fisherman and hunters that lived off and respected the land while living in vibrant communities. Although there were battles between tribes these people lived relatively peacefully. The arrival of the Europeans brought extreme change that has lasted for decades. To this day the effects still plague the American Indian. Upon the arrival of the Europeans the American Indians were intrigued by the “white man”. They helped them get accustomed to the climate, taught them how to tend to the land, and shared some of their culture with them. The desire was obviously an attempt to befriend the Europeans but they had no idea how greed would change their lives. Obviously the land became a major priority to the Europeans. They saw profit and this greed inevitably lead what is considered the genocide of the American Indian. As more and more Europeans arrived the treat of the live of the American Indian grew. The Europeans would bring disease, steal their land, and made attempts to try to change everything about the way of life for the American Indians. They brought missionaries to Christianize the American Indian. With more Europeans now living in North America, food was...
Words: 280 - Pages: 2
...Native American Indian 1 Native American Candace Schneider Axia College of the University of Phoenix Native American Indian 2 My ethnic group that I belong is Native American, but to be more specific I am part of the Chippewa Band of Indians which is part of the tribe Ojibwa. My tribal reservation is the Turtle Mountain Reservation. The history of my people date back a long time ago on this continent of North America. Native Americans of all tribes have been on this continent before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock and before Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. Native Americans lived, hunted, endure hardships of war, encountered foreign visitors and many other situations as they lived on this land. According to the book Through Indians Eyes (1995) the first people to migrate to North America arrived long before 4000 B.C. by crossing Beringia which is a land bridge that connected Siberia to Alaska (page 12-13). These people spread out all over the land. The people survived by hunting mammoths, mastodons and other large animals during that period of time. People stopped migrating here after the Ice Age ended and the bridge of the Beringia became flooded over by the rising sea. As time went by, these people started to become more advanced by having trade centers, development of weapons, and series of routes to trail on that connected to each other. This is how Native Americans came to be on this land. On this continent the people that migrated...
Words: 877 - Pages: 4
...Native American Indians Tina Green-Burress HIS/145 November 10, 2014 Danny Scott Native American Indians There is no doubt that our history books have left out a great deal of information about American people and their lives, many black authors have tried to tell the true story of African Americans. But we must not forget American is a melting pot and Native American Indians played an important part in American history. The 1960s brought on changes for Native Indians in America and where they have come from and where they are now cannot be overlooked in American history. From the Beginning "Somewhere, these young men started the American Indian Movement. And they came to our reservation and they turned that light on inside. And it's getting bigger, now we can see things" an Oglala (ElderRedhawk (2002). The elder spoke of three men from the Minneapolis-St. Paul in 1968. The men were Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, and George Miller, and they were responsible for founding AIM (American Indian Movement). The men were an activist American Indian group concerned with the civil rights of American Indians. These three Ojibwa ex-cons were tired of the poverty and despair their fellow brothers and sisters were going through. Though Indians have always been thought of as a peaceful people, you can only get pushed so much until something is done. In the 1960s and 1970s American Indians became more aggressive with the civil rights movement taking place...
Words: 867 - Pages: 4
...Native American R1A Name: KAIDI AN Understanding of Native Americans from a personal view Originated from a particular land, local to an area, and naturally belonging to this place…that is what “indigenous” stands for and comes into my mind immediately. This word takes the Native Americans hundreds of years to protect and struggle for, because these people, who from historical perspective are the most legit and original owners of America, have an extraordinary strong bond with this broad land. However, with the migration of Europeans to the America since the end of 15th century, this formerly harmonious society has been broken into pieces and forced to gradually adjust to the control of new rules and disciplines conducted by the exotic invaders. Whenever the word “Indians” which is a self-identification of the Native Americans, is brought up, the most common phrase I can ever think of is about slavery and discrimination. Indians have been enslaved for a long time during the history of mankind. From the textbook, we learned a lot about European colonialism and its victimization of Africans and Indians followed as the dominant paradigm. Indians are commonly depicted as succumbing in large numbers to survivors with the survivors facing with the dispossession of their lands and their assets. Indians, treated as the commodities by bargaining, or even the livestock, were flogged and whipped by the colonists and slaveholders. They didn’t own the human rights or dignities...
Words: 857 - Pages: 4
...Commission- The Indian Peace Commission proposed creating two large reservations on the Plains, one for the Sioux and another for southern Plains Indians. 7. George Armstrong Custer- commander of the Seventh Cavalry and was defeated and killed at battle of Little Bighorn 8. Ghost Dance- a ritual that celebrated a hope for day of reckoning when settlers would disappear, the buffalo would return, and Native Americans would reunite with their deceased ancestors. 9. Dawes Act- this act allowed to each head of household 160 acres of reservation land for farming; single adults received 80 acres, and 40 were allotted for children. 10. How did Native Americans respond to land lost due to white settlement of the Great Plains? They attacked them. 11. How did Chief Joseph resist the government's attempts to move the Nez Perce to reservations? They fled their homes and embarked on a flight of more than 1,300 miles. In October 1877, Chief Joseph surrendered, and his followers’ were exiled to Oklahoma 12. Why do you think the government's policy of assimilation of Native Americans was a failure? 13. List the reasons that the government's plans to move the Plains Indians onto reservations failed. 14. Assume the role of a Plains Indian affected by the assimilation policy of the Dawes Act. Write a Journal entry describing how you feel about the policy and how it has affected your life. 15. In what ways were different groups of Plains Indians similar? 16...
Words: 396 - Pages: 2
...Neel Patel Professor Naomi Taub Rhetoric 105 F6 14 September 2015 Hawaiian Empowerment: A Native’s Point of View In “From a Native Daughter,” writer, activist, and Native Hawaiian academic, Haunani-Kay Trask recounts her personal feelings along with her people’s feelings with how the ‘haole’ (white) people overwhelmed and distorted the historical context of the native Hawaiian inhabitants. Trask’s purpose is to convey the message that the native Hawaiians’ ancient culture is described as oppressive and tyrannical by white historians, rather that it was a society that functioned efficiently before the Europeans seized the land. She adopts an affectionate yet blunt tone throughout the course of the selection in order to contend the principles about the Hawaiian people to the Western world. Trask launches her exposition by highlighting how she gains much of her knowledge of her ancestry and people from her family and by expressing early on that she learned about how the whites took over her people. She appeals to her ethos and credibility by telling her audience, “I learned about the life of the old ones –and they had flourished” (Trask 113) and that her “mother said Hawaiians had sailed over thousands of miles to make their home in these sacred islands (Trask 113).” She makes these claims regarding her mother and people in order to express that she is experienced on this topic from her first-hand encounters and her Ph.D. knowledge. Soon after establishing her dominance...
Words: 1952 - Pages: 8
...Native American Culture, Text and Curriculum ! 1 Native American Culture, Text and Curriculum Scott T. Timmerman Wisconsin Lutheran College Native American Culture, Text and Curriculum ! 2 Abstract In Wisconsin there is nothing so familiar yet so invisible as the presence of the Indian culture. We find ourselves surrounded by the history of the Native Americans no matter where we go. There are 11 Indian reservations, numerous cities and counties named after Indians and historical images and museums throughout the state. Nonetheless, the vast majority of people from Wisconsin know little about the past or the current culture of the original Americans. There are currently hundreds of different cultures today for Native Americans, yet the still existing Native cultures are lumped under one mistaken title, Indian. Most non-Natives have either never knowingly met a Native person or are unaware of the presence of modern Native communities. They do not know Native American history and they assume Native Americans are only to be found in history. Most children today do not realize that Native Americans are still part of our state today. We need to take a close and honest look at the ways in which Native stories, Native life, and Native people are presented to our children in the classrooms. We need to examine and understand how important children’s literature can be. It can reinforce the worst in us and in our children or it can encourage true intellectual growth. Most...
Words: 2005 - Pages: 9
...nations in terms of the tolerance and harmony between the resident cultures. All this can been attested to the fact that America is an Immigration Country. The country constitutes people from different parts of the world. The process of people moving into the new world that is the Americas where the United State lies began centuries ago and has been an ongoing process to the current day. This paper examines the origins of their Native Americans. This paper also explores their journey into the Americas as the first Immigrants. Their settlement patterns and ways of life will also be examined. The paper also explores how the Native Americans in the Americas fared during the European conquest of the region that is currently identified as the America. Euro-Indian relations, conflicts and their aftermath is also a focus point of the paper, which culminates into the current state of affairs of the Native American community in the Americas. Origins of the Native Americans There are diverse sources of information on the origins and history of the Native Americans. They include oral history passed down through generations. This oral history is as diverse as the Indian Nations. Different tribes have different folklore to explain their origins. For instance, the Haida who reside in British Columbia say that man was shaken out of a clam shell by a raven. The Navajo of Arizona say they sprung out of the ground after which there was a time of great wandering and searching for a home. Almost...
Words: 2083 - Pages: 9
...Natives and Explorers In this day, we often wonder why study Native American literature? Could it be because we instinctively feel it is because they were the first settlers of America? I will be explaining why Native American literature is America through history of the Native Americans and through literature written by the Native Americans. It is to be believed that the history of North America initiated when the ancestors of Native Americans made their way across a bridge that was once from the Bering Sea and connected Asia to North America. Native Americans believe that their ancestors originated in America and oral accounts of their foundation have been passed down from generation to generation. The Native Americans were very useful with using natural resources and adjusted well to the climate changes of where they lived. They for example, used wood that was collecting in the forest to build houses, boats, and tools. They utilized all of their natural resources including animal hide, bone as well as many other resources to sustain their way of life. Their diet depended on primarily on hunting and was supplemented with farming. When the European explorers began to reach their destination of the land the Native Americans have settled on, they were faced with new challenges. These challenges had some Native Americans coexisting with Europeans and trading and adapting to the new technologies the Europeans had to offer. This was a difficult concept...
Words: 910 - Pages: 4
