Digital Natives

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• Computer Programming as Digital Literacy

  
  Learning Games — Authority: 103
  If the so-called ‘Digital Natives’ don’t know how to program a computer, are they really digitally literate? In his blog, Tony Forster presents an “argument for the authoring of interactive or programmable multimedia as an important meta-literacy skill.”  It’s a good start to this particular discussion, I ...
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• Multi-tasking vs focusing: which is best?

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 502
  And the answer is: it all depends! As usual with human behaviour, it depends on the context. Ophir, E., Nass, C., and Wagner, A. (2009) Cognitive control in media multitaskers Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , Vol. 106, No. 37 I don’t want to oversimplify the ...
  5 days ago

• Understanding The Under 25 Digital Native (MindShare)

  
  Insights Qualitativos 2.0 — Authority: 137
  Understanding the 25 years old digital native: They view the world through a digital lens. If I can do it online – I expect to do it EVERYWHERE!Understanding The Under 25 Digital NativeView more presentations from Mindshare.
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• Digital Natives Have Nothing on Gen X

  
  EduGeek Journal — Authority: 109
  Digital Natives are better at multitasking than older generations? Please.  My generation (Gen X) practically perfected multi-tasking.  Let’s take a look back to the 80s for a second: Our multitasking was in the form of listening to a Walkman while sitting in front of the TV and doing homework – none of ...
  1 week ago

• [berkman] Sahara Byrne on Kids v. Parents

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 521
  Sahara Byrne , from the Dept. of Communication at Cornell U., is giving a Tuesday Berkman lunch, titled “Parent versus Child: Reports of Internet Behaviors and Support for Strategies to Prevent Negative Effects of Online Exposure.” NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key ...
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• Digital Britain, Analogue Church

  
  Big Circumstance — Authority: 418
  The Evangelical Alliance recently published some statistics about what it calls Digital Britain . They make fascinating reading. Here are some highlights. You won’t find all of it surprising, but what is clear is just how much our culture is shifting in a digital direction. * There is a trend away from social ...
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• More from Project Information Literacy: “the librarian approach is based on thoroughness, while the student approach is based on efficiency”

  
  Lisa Gold: Research Maven — Authority: 407
  Back in April, I wrote a long post titled “I’m shocked to discover there’s gambling in this casino…” about Project Information Literacy’s February 2009 report, “Finding Context: What Today’s College Students Say About Conducting Research in the Digital Age.” In my post I was somewhat snarky ...
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• 37 Signals : Digital Natives Leadership in action

  
  Tech IT Easy — Authority: 116
  The question I’m always asked when I run out of my friends/colleagues/dog patience with the issue of Digital Natives integration within the enterprise is : how to convince the proponents of this culture to adhere to a common professional project, to an organization with rules and commitments ? The answer is ...
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• New Report Says Adults Need to Get Involved in Teens’ Online Activities

  
  Generation YES Blog — Authority: 122
  New Report Says Adults Need to Get Involved in Teens’ Online Activities Yeah, this one is kind of from the “DUH” files, but it’s something worth repeating. We know that teens need adult guidance to navigate new worlds, digital or not. Just because teens feel more comfortable in digital worlds than many ...
  2 weeks ago

• Masked Hoodies on the Internet

  
  twopointouch — Authority: 122
  I am always suspicious of Internet ‘experts’ who pay homage to the digital natives idea. The idea that young people are not only generationally different from me, but also are psychologically different. Perhaps it’s my age. Being over-40, I react badly to anything that suggests that I’m not long from the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Not just digital natives & immigrants!

  
  NetFamilyNews — Authority: 495
  It makes sense that news media reports about how youth use technology are both produced and consumed through adult lenses. Many news reporters grew up in a very different (mass media) environment, as did a lot of parents, educators, and other news consumers. So were seeing and participating in a distorted picture of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Baby Boomers are catching the Gen Ys online

  
  Things do not change, we change. — Authority: 112
  Accenture Consumer Electronics Products And Services Usage 09 View more documents from mickstravellin . Just saw this research piece from Accenture on how the Baby Boomers growth online as well as other products like gaming is at a much faster rate as we start to see the Gen Y audience plateau out. The audience ...
  3 weeks ago

• Digital Natives Vs Corporate BS

  
  Tech IT Easy — Authority: 116
  (Hey, believe it or not, it’s Cecil again. Another translation from an original french post on Heavy Mental ). One often refers to usages when talking about the advent of the collaborative web. In my opinion, this is an understatement which nurtures misunderstanding. The relationship developed by people ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Millennial Muddle

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 502
  Hoover, E. (2009) The Millennial Muddle Chronicle of Higher Education , October 11 This very LONG article looks ostensibly at the business that discussing millennials has led to for consultants (quoi, moi? Absolutement, non!), although in reality it is a wonderful unconscious description of the culture of the United ...
  4 weeks ago

• Born Digital

  
  the art teacher's guide to the internet — Authority: 111
  Born Digital from Oakes Media on Vimeo.Here’s an effective reminder of what distinguishes kids today from previous generations. They are the first generation born digital. They are using digital tools to create a world that no one has ever imagined. Hopefully with the guidance of an art teacher.
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• Blogging About Generational Differences

  
  Virtual High School Meanderings — Authority: 137
  And the final one in our series of “Blogging About…” This time generational differences.SnowflakesProductive day in Einhoven from Erik Duval’s Weblog Gen YToday’s VidShizzle. A Discussion of Helicopter Parents By an Actual “Gen Y Consultant.” from Rate Your Students Today’s StudentToday’s VidShizzle ...
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• The learners’ experience of e-learning

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 502
  From ‘Key messages’ in the JISC Responding to Learners Pack JISC (2009) Responding to Learners Pack Bristol, UK: Joint Information Systems Committee. From the JISC site: JISC is an independent advisory body [in the United Kingdom] that works with further and higher education by providing strategic guidance, ...
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• We Are Digital Immigrants Teaching Digital Natives

  
  Ask-Dr-Kirk — Authority: 115
  Heres a fascinating article by Marc Prensky who discusses the challenges faced by college faculty who are "digital immigrants," having learned technology slowly and sometimes painfully...versus our students who are "digital natives" that grew up with email, cell phones, Internet access, computer games, etc. As he ...
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