Marc Prensky (born March 15, 1946, New York City, United States) is an American writer and speaker on education.

He worked for six years (1981-1987) as a corporate strategist and product development director with the Boston Consulting Group, and six years (1993-1999) for Bankers Trust on Wall St., where he created game-based training for financial traders, and started an internal division, Corporate Gameware, later spun out as games2train.

[4] Bax (2011) has written that Prensky's views are simplistic, that his terminology is open to challenge and that his claim that educators should simply alter their approach to suit young people who are 'digital natives' ignores essential elements of the nature of learning and good pedagogy.

"[7] Prensky further argues that "the fields of education and pedagogy have today become needlessly and painfully over-complicated, ignoring our students' (and our world’s) real needs.

It is time to reassess what good and effective teaching means in a digital age and how to combine what is important from the past with the tools of the future."