Digital Nativism
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Saved by 38 people (-2 private), first by anonymouse user on 2007-10-25
- Anitsirk on 2009-11-08 - Tags digitalnatives , net-generation , controversy , criticism
- Jlearn20 on 2009-02-27 - Tags demographics
- Emilyvickery on 2008-12-31 - Tags digitalnatives , prensky , jamiemckenzie
- Silberguy on 2008-11-14 - Tags jimdunne
- Djubaka on 2008-10-04 - Tags digital_learning
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Their point of view is harsh and ill informed. Their stance is unsubstantiated by evidence and is little more than digital delusion. They are guilty of "arcade scholarship" -
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He paints digital experience as wonderful and old ways as worthless.
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Quick to stereotype generations, Prensky lumps all young ones together as digital natives even though reports like "Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8–18 Year-0lds" issued by the Kaiser Family Foundation paint a far more complex portrait and base their comments on data gathered through surveys. His stereotypes and sweeping comments seem fabricated through personal observations, strong bias and wishful thinking.
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The authors of "Generation M" were surprised to learn that computer time accounted for only about 5% of young people's use of media.
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Those who substitute FaceBook for face-to-face communities suffer many of the consequences explored by MIT Professor Sherry Turkle in her now classic study Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, first published (ironically) in 1984
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