If this article in Innovate (registration required) didn’t keep hammering the “N-Gen” meme and all the requisite star-struck statistics and high-fallutin description so hard it would have been a lot more fun to read. But the bottom line thesis is still important for all educators to consider:
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Blogging & Connective Reading 11 Aug 2008 12:40 pm
“Why Johnny’s Professor Can’t Read”
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And, as has been observed many times here and elsewhere, one of the biggest shifts is the move away from individual knowledge to distributed knowledge built on collaborative and, I would argue, network literacies that are unfamiliar to most of us. (Not to say these kids are born with them, btw.)
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on 2008-08-11 by carlaarena
so true! individual knowledge to distributed. Network literacies as part of N-Gen literacies.
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