Posts Tagged ‘digital natives’
Digital youth portraits
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 15, 2009
I have started watching the Digital Youth Portrait series offered by Edutopia. The videos there provide a peek into the lives of various children and how technology impacts their lives.
So far I have watched four of the ten videos available at Edutopia and there are lots of takeaways. For example, one thing that struck me [...]
Facebook generation
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 16, 2009
First there was Generation X. Then there was Gen Y. Now there is Gen F for Facebook, of course. But is someone just making this stuff up? I don’t think so.
Gary Hamel of the Wall Street Journal suggested 12 traits of Gen F, who will “expect the social environment of work to reflect the social [...]
Cyberstudents?
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 12, 2009
I will soon require my trainee teachers to read more about their students-to-be, the digital natives.
Rather than point them immediately to Prensky’s writings, I might start them off with the Guardian’s “Dawn of the cyberstudent“. And the videos below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M_336pDWoM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8
Technology integration is important
Posted by: ashleytan on: January 10, 2009
One of the blogs I read regularly via RSS is Kapp Notes. Karl Kapp recently blogged about being at the ICT Educator Conference where Jon Burgess, a speaker from Apple, gave a keynote speech.
According to Kapp, Burgess was critical of the typical classroom:
He spoke a great deal about the disconnect between student technology expectations and [...]
Shift happens!
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 30, 2008
For some reason or other, my primary RSS aggregator, Bloglines, does not read Edublog feeds very well. I know because I maintain a personal blog at EduBlogs, but don’t get regular feeds even though I write entries in that blog every week day.
Worse still, I may have missed some thoughts that my preservice teachers have [...]
Digital who?
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 12, 2008
Digital natives. N-gen. Gamer generation. These terms have been used to describe the learners in school today.
What do teachers, typically the digital immigrants, understand about digital natives? Read Marc Prensky’s description of digital natives (PDF).
