Second, the authors argue, “Our video shows that the integration of computers and digital technology in the classroom creates a barrier between professors and students, and that this barrier can be overcome by recognizing the ways in which professors create an unnecessary gap between themselves and their students.” This gap is created when teachers are not willing to collaborate with their students to learn and use unfamiliar technologies.
Finally, combining these ideas, they assert that “since students today are used to constant and simultaneous input from different sources, we can easily become bored with traditional, linear texts. For instance, we highlight in our video moments where speakers at the Watson conference lost our attention, bored us, or, literally, put us to sleep. We acknowledge that the conference is mainly for other teachers, not undergraduates, but through this video, we playfully question whether that assumption continues to be worthwhile in a world where digital immigrants (teachers) and digital natives (us) need to learn from each other in order to succeed.”