http://www.webbmedia.net/2007/08/28/the-myth-of-the-digital-native/ Thoughts on digital media, communication, education, and technology Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:44:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.webbmedia.net/2007/08/28/the-myth-of-the-digital-native/#comment-53196 Cultivating Minds » Why are you getting a degree anyway? Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:21:29 +0000 http://www.cultivating.us/?p=262#comment-53196 [...] I have heard the allegations that today’s kids are digital natives, which I recently remarked was not what my new experience is. I might be being a little bit harsh. While they did not immediately seem to register understanding when they created accounts on the class blog, no one claimed to not know what a computer is or what the internets are. Actually, the whole process of getting people oriented to what they needed to post and where went fairly smoothly. [...] [...] I have heard the allegations that today’s kids are digital natives, which I recently remarked was not what my new experience is. I might be being a little bit harsh. While they did not immediately seem to register understanding when they created accounts on the class blog, no one claimed to not know what a computer is or what the internets are. Actually, the whole process of getting people oriented to what they needed to post and where went fairly smoothly. [...]

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