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Examining Digital Natives. Jeff Ginger 12.2008. Definition. Marc Prensky , 2001 Students who “have changed radically” and are “no longer the people our education system was designed to teach”
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Examining Digital Natives Jeff Ginger 12.2008
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
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
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
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…