The Change in the Digital Age..From My Perspective

The paradigm between Millennial and Gen X are indeed pragmatic. As someone who is respectively aligned with the Millennial age group, I can in many ways relate to what some theorists like Prensky are describing about the change in the digital age.

With the endless sales of technology at your fingertips.., be it cell phones, gaming systems, computers or other high-tech devices alike, students are learning at a difference pace than their predecessors. However, students are taking what they’ve learned from such new-aged technology and becoming more advanced than the Gen X group respectively.

Certainly, as Prensky states students today “process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors.” Whilst there is no denying that this change is shifting the pattern of the old-aged phenomenon of obtaining information directly through textbooks. Technology today is increasingly sharpening the minds of youth today and helping them within their perspective career fields.

I mean let’s be clear, how many of us has been asked by a recruiter or shall I say “online job application” if we are technology advanced??? I’m more than 99.9% sure that many of us would answer yes to this question. Why is this example important you might ask? Because having technology at your fingertips is used in many career fields today.  In hospitals, law firms, schools etc. Technology is helping to shape our nation.

Prensky makes a valid point when he talks about the legacy of our predecessors. We have not forgotten about the past ways of obtaining information, (i.e. reading textbooks, writing, arithmetic etc) it is very much still important. Today however, we are learning about many things differently in the 21^st century.

Hello All, My name is Damon Flemings; I am a recent graduate from Wayne State University. As I am a very recent graduate, I am looking to broaden my studies more effectively. I am now enrolled into the Communication & New Media graduate program here at WSU. During my tenure at WSU, I received such a remarkable learning experience regarding the inner-workings of communication, media and law, public relations, business and more. I am a past board member of the Public Relations Student Society of America, (PRSSA) Wayne State Chapter. I am also a past member of the Journalism Institute for Media Diversity (JIM) here at Wayne State. As the IT industry is such a booming field, I am excited to learn more about what it entails. If at which point I decide to go into any administrative roles within my profession, I will be able to completely understand the verbiage of the industry and will be able to teach others on my own.