While it has often proved inadequate when pushed too far, Marc Prensky’s 2001 positing of Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives has given the world the terms needed to start many a technology in education debate. Now almost a decade later, Prensky has written a new article on where citizenship of a digital society now places us.

I’ll be honest, his talk of implants and controlling games with our minds does seem a little sci-fi – not even the characters in Battlestar Galactica can do that! As he states however, these technologies are not way off in the future, but are currently being trialled and deployed. So what will this mean for life as homo sapiens? What effect will all the automation available to us even now on a day to day basis have on our cognition? And where will those without access to such enhancements be left?

This is a significant article from one of Educational technology’s leading thinkers. Read the article at Innovate HERE (requires a simple registration).