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Examining Digital Natives

This exploration delves into the concept of digital natives, analyzing how they think (and differ from older generations) and their integration of ICT. Examining various viewpoints, from Prensky's definition to critiques by Bennet et al., and discussing themes like identity, privacy, and information quality, this study is an insightful look at the digital landscape.

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Examining Digital Natives

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  1. Examining Digital Natives Jeff Ginger 12.2008

  2. Definition • Marc Prensky, 2001 • Students who “have changed radically” and are “no longer the people our education system was designed to teach” • Suggests that students today think and process information differently compared to older generations • Natives, Immigrants, Settlers

  3. Response • Bennet et al (2008) systematically criticize on grounds of lack of research, and conclude that it’s an example of a “moral panic or fear amongst educators, parents, and others who lack understanding and fear the unknown.” • John Palfrey and Urs Gasser published Born Digital (2008) • Examines ‘natives’ as a population and not generation

  4. Born Digital at a Glance • Natives - A population with ICT’s deeply integrated into their experience • Immigrants – Unfamiliar and uncomfortable with the internet • Settlers – Those who adopt new technologies but rely on old ones too as well as associated social norms • Topics (measures) present in the book: • Identity • Digital dossiers • Privacy, safety, and aggressors • Creation, remixing and piracy • Quality of information absorbed/produced • Information overload • Innovators • Learners and activists

  5. Analysis • The language (root analogy is flawed) • Settlers vs. immigrants and power • Dangers of remapping meaning and language (Eglash 2007) • Measurement • Areas of interest are not metrics • Possible method – factors that contribute to the participation gap, access, skills and community that enable effective/empoweredlearners and creators in the information society (Jenkins 2006) • Other possibilities Political participation, distributed knowledge, etc…

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