The Generation Game: Exploding the myth behind the Google and Net Generations
Theme 4: Engaging our Students
Brief outline:
Prensky's paper "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants" has
influenced a number of Higher Education Institutions to tackle
the growing concern that not only are students learning
differently, they are also using a range of personalised digital
tools to work, learn and play.
Popular and academic literature has been keen to extol the
characteristics pertaining to the 'digital native' psyche, that
include: speed of access to information; multi-tasking
abilities; online socialisation; instant gratification and being
more visually literate/aware.
If these characteristics are true, then the repercussions on how
schools, colleges and Universities are going to teach this new
generation of learner could well be profound, if not
problematical.
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