How might Wenger's notion of practice communities to relate to Prensky's on education?

Prensky and Wenger both suggest in their theories that it is not only the management and techers of a business or school that can help the employees or students in the work area. Wenger states that members in a community of practice 'engage in a collective process of learning' and so together they learn without being taught and told what to do by people higher up in the hierachy. This is similar to the fact that Prensky's theory that students know more about new technology than their teachers and so teach themselves instead of having to rely on lecturers to teach them.

Both theorists believe in group learning. While Wenger believes that communities of practice is all about learning together with and helping each other out to get he best results. Prensky also believes in group work as he believes in the idea of online study groups where students can learn together online and work together to help students understand work set.

Prensky focusses more on the internet and how people use technology in education whereas Wenger believes that the learning process is not just based in education but in hobbies, the work place or in activities.