Digital Natives?

Digital Natives?

by Brian Foley -
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child with touchscreenIn 2001 Mark Prensky introduced the idea that the younger generation were "digital natives" because they have grown up (and learned to think) in a world filled with the web and handheld devices where us older types had to adapt to these tools later in life.  

This has been a popular meme in ed tech discussion, but now some people are questioning how different kids really are.  A new study claims to "Explode the Myth of Digital Natives"