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The following was originally published October 26, 2010 at http://tkirkissuesined.blogspot.com/2010/10/digital-divide.html In //Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants//, Marc Prensky claims that "today's students are no longer the people our education system was designed to teach." Today's students only know a digitized world, but our educational system is ill-equipped to educate them on their level. Is a fully digitized and visually rich curriculum the answer to motivate and engage this new generation or are the pillars of traditional education - historical texts, arithmetic, lecture and note-taking - still valid?