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Category Archives: digital natives


Reading in the internet age

29 July, 2008 – 8:35 am

A thoughtful piece in The New York Times about reading in the internet age and the implications for literacy, cognition and learning.

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Snack attack learning?

7 April, 2008 – 10:00 am

The trend towards short dramas for delivery via mobile phone is a great opportunity for educators. If people, particularly the young, are looking to commercial ISPs for 4 minute doses of drama, what’s to say that they won’t be interested in a 4 minute refresher on their biology prac, their French verbs, or the lyrics […]

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Prensky wrong? ‘Digital natives’ not as native as we thought

12 February, 2008 – 10:57 am

Since the term ‘digital natives’ was coined by Mark Prensky in 2001 I’ve put down my mobile phone fumbling and blankness when faced by ‘twittering‘ and ‘twining‘ to the fact that I’m on the cusp of Gen X and boomer generations and have had to learn my technology skills rather than having grown up with them. But […]

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