Week 3 Discussion on The Digital Natives Digital technology is a big idea. In his articles entitled “The Digital Generation”, author Peter V. Paul definably characterizes digital natives, digital immigrants, and digital teachers based on their level of usability and interactivity with new technology. He describes the frameworks of conventional multiple literacies that have produced new words and phrases (i.e., e-book, e-mail, Facebook, Google, apps, blog, vlog and others); and the proliferation of devices including iPhone, iPad, iPod. Realistically, our society and educational systems are undergoing a profound transformation through the emergence of digital technology. Consequentially, therefore, the student of today has mostly grown up surrounded by digital technologies. (Paul, 2013) As demonstrated in a study by Vincze, Aniko: “--there is no evidence that the student of today would be in any aspects different to their ancestors due to their exposure to information and communications technologies.” (Vincze, Aniko: (2015)) Notwithstanding, there are widening digital gaps in today’s learning environment that have sporadically spurred the obvious inequality in the educational systems. Despite the digital gaps, the benefit of technology can be explored for the aggregate benefits of “information and communication technologies (ICT)” (i.e., …show more content…
Disaster impacts on a community can be exacerbated by poor leadership, redundant or failed infrastructure system, and lack of communications and outreach. Emergency managers can adapt new technology and devices to communicate with stakeholders, disaster victims, as well as the public. In this way, before disaster strikes, an emergency manager can leverage and sustain community and stakeholder efforts to build surge capacities, prepositioning of capabilities, and /or pre-requisite needs to successfully execute response incident readiness