digital natives
Conflicts & Debates: The 'digital natives' debate...(Bennett, S., et al.)
In “The ‘digital natives’ debate: A critical review of the evidence[1]”, Bennett, Meton & Kervin are right on about the debate regarding rash overhauls of how we educate based on the generation labeled ‘digital natives’. ‘Digital natives’[2] (Prensky, 2001) or the ‘Net generation’[3] (Tapscott, 1998) – that group of people born approximately between 1980 and 1994 and raised with digClick here to read more »
Submitted by Howard Bezzant on Sun, 10/18/2009 - 9:10pm
The Digital Melting Pot: Bridging the Digital Native-Immigrant Divide
Over the past decade or two a term has been generated and passed around the educational field. Teachers are noting their students can run computers, and all computer "things" at a very young age and seem to live, eat, and breathe technology. The teachers themselves may feel at a loss, or even stupid, by comparison. Thus, a belief has been growing and it is that the children entering and passing through our schools now are technological superiors and the educators inferior. Also, many educators assume that education must be reformed to suit the current generation's penchant for all things digital.
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