"Alison Kaye explores whether new generations, born into a world where the internet is ubiquitous, really have an innate talent for digital technology ..."
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"The real obstacle is student motivation, and no gadget can create that ..." 
Joel Anfuso's curator insight,
May 21, 2015 7:05 AM
Good article, although I feel its conclusions are oversimplified. |
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"It is conventional wisdom in many quarters -- indeed, for some people it approaches the level of 'incontrovertible fact' -- that young people are 'digital natives', possessed of some sort of innate ability to understand and utilize digital devices and applications merely because of their youth, because they have 'grown up surrounded by technology', in ways that older folks can't -- and perhaps never will ...."
Oskar Almazan's curator insight,
November 29, 2016 11:02 PM
Even where you buy into the digital native hypothesis, it still might be true that today's digital natives will in many important ways be tomorrow's digital immigrants. The rate of technological change could well mean that the approaches to the use of technology that the 'digital natives' of today develop in their formative years -- again, if you believe that such people exist -- may well be different, in ways both trivial and profound, from the approaches and perspectives that subsequent generations may adopt.
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"It's time to give up the notion that "digital natives" are more tech savvy than their teachers. According to a recent study of middle school science students and teachers, the teachers tended to have greater technology use ..."
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