This ties in nicely with a comment from a student (and I mean this, to quote a colleague, “with love and respect”) who noted with surprise that some materials I required for a class by an esteemed older scholar were really interesting and very relevant. This student had been surprised because based on appearance, this would not have been his/her assumption about what the content would contain. We ALL have made such assumptions from time to time, but it’s time to fracture the assumption that “kids today” are “digital natives” and that more seasoned contributors can’t possibly know what they’re doing with digital technology.  I loved Henry Jenkins’ post last December fracturing Prensky’s terms and I applaud Nate’s tribute to the same debunking of digital native myth:

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