Week 10: Question 1...

"How might Wengers notions on practice communities relate to Prensky's on education?"

Prensky's theory suggests that in education, Teachers are Digital Immigrants and the students are Digital Natives. Wenger's theory suggests that all people concerned with a subject are part of a community of practice. The core members would be the people who are active and the peripheral members are interested to varying degrees but not nessesarily involved. For example in a band - the band members are the core members and the people who come along to band practice are the peripheral members.

Prensky proposes a seperation in education between Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives. Immigrants are wanting to learn as much as the Natives. Therefore becoming part of a community of practice even if say an immigrant, they arn't up to the same standards as a native. It is the being part of a community of practice which makes the two aspects of Wengers and Prensky's theories intertwine.