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

Prensky's theories on education and Wenger's on Communities of Practice are certianly linked. "Communities of practice are formed by people who engage in a process of collective learning in a shared domain of human endeavour..." (Wenger 2007). http://www.ewenger.com/theory/
"Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach". (Prensky 2001). http://www.twitchspeed.com/site/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.htm

Both theorists are discussing the concept of learning through a digitally orientated environment. Wenger talks about a hierachy of group members, with those who have more control, and those who simply participate. Similarly, Prensky talks of those who are 'natives', who are digitally advanced and aware, who are the opposite to those known as the digital immigrants.

Both Prensky and Wenger can be linked through their other ideas. Wenger thinks that learning is central to human identity. Prensky argues that children learn more at home, after school, and this is where they build their own identities.

These two theories are related as Wenger argues that by being part of a CoP, you are able to gain a real sense of identity and belonging, as you are able to communicate with the same people that have the same interests as you. As well as having these interests, Prensky would argue that you needed the same level of capablilities to communicate digitally. Digital natives are deemed to operate out of school and CoP's tend be used and participated in out of school.