Digital Natives Revisited
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Digital Literacy, Society
As a results of the “introduction to digital environments for learning” (IDEL) module and the research that I have been doing around the topic of digital literacy; I have crossed Marc Prensky’s path many times over; he should also add agent provocateur to his list of roles. It started with my IDEL essay called “Bridging [...]
Tags: digital immigrants, digital literacy, digital natives, games, IDGBL2009, net generation, prensky
Digital Imperialism: The Tyranny of Technology
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Digital Literacy, Society
The notion of “Millennials” (Howe & Strauss, 2000), “digital natives” (Prensky, 2001), “net gen” (Oblinger, 2005), “technological generation” (Monereo, 2004) and Frand’s (2000) ten attributes of the “information-age mindset” is of great interest to me. Why? Well, my institution was awarded, this year, with some HEA Pathfinder funding to equip some of our lecturers with [...]
Tags: culture, cyberdiversity, digital immigrants, digital natives, IDELautumn07, imperialism, language, net generation, prensky
