Abstract
Prensky's paper "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants" has influenced a number of Higher Education Institutions to tackle the growing concern that not only are students learning differently, they are also using a range of personalised digital tools to work, learn and play.
Popular and academic literature has been keen to extol the characteristics pertaining to the 'digital native' psyche, that include: speed of access to information; multi-tasking abilities; online socialisation; instant gratification and being more visually literate/aware.
If these characteristics are true, then the repercussions on how schools, colleges and Universities are going to teach this new generation of learner could well be profound, if not problematical.
Popular and academic literature has been keen to extol the characteristics pertaining to the 'digital native' psyche, that include: speed of access to information; multi-tasking abilities; online socialisation; instant gratification and being more visually literate/aware.
If these characteristics are true, then the repercussions on how schools, colleges and Universities are going to teach this new generation of learner could well be profound, if not problematical.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
| Event | Student First Conference 2009 - Duration: 1 Jan 2009 → … |
Conference
| Conference | Student First Conference 2009 |
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| Period | 1/01/09 → … |
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