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Digital Natives
Digital Natives Digital native – Born 1985
Personal computers are10 years old
Digital Natives Digital native – Kindergarten 1990
Tim Berners-Lee writes World Wide Web program
Digital Natives Digital native – Middle School 1996
Palm Pilot goes onthe market
Digital Natives Digital Native – High School 1999
Sean Fanning createsNapster
Digital Natives Digital Native – Graduates High School 2003
iPod - 2002
Digital Natives Digital native – Late Teens - Early 20s
Blogs - 1997
Digital Natives Digital native – Late Teens - Early 20s
Wikipedia - 2001
Digital Natives Digital native – Late Teens - Early 20s
Skype - 2003
Digital Natives Digital native – Late Teens - Early 20s
Podcasts – 2004
Digital Natives Digital native – Late Teens - Early 20s
YouTube – 2005
Digital Natives Reality 1
Media and gadgets are ubiquitous parts of
everyday life
Digital Natives
Kaiser Family Foundation, Generation M, March 2005
Digital Natives Reality 2
New gadgets allow them to enjoy media and carry on communication anywhere
Digital Natives Reality 3
The internet is at the center of the revolution
Digital Natives Reality 4
Multi-tasking is a way of life – and people live in a
state of “continuous partial attention”
--- Linda Stone
Digital Natives Reality 5
Ordinary citizens have a chance to be publishers,
movie makers, artists, song creators, and story
tellers
Digital Natives Reality 6
Everything will change even more in coming
years
Digital Natives Impact and implications
• Teens expect to be able to gather and share information in multiple devices.
• They shrewdly sort out what communication and what information “belongs” on what device and under what circumstances.– Stephen Stills meets Go-Go Mr. Gadget: If
they can’t be with the device they love, they love the device they’re with
– “Email is for old people.”
Digital Natives Impact and implications
• Conversations, research, and learning never end• Being “present” with another person has a new
meaning• Expectations about another’s “availability”
change and spontaneous communications increase
• Teens hope they can get help from peers and teachers and librarians whenever they need it
Digital Natives Impact and implications
• Those who have grown up with interactive media want to manipulate, remix, and share content.
• Ideas about intellectual property change– Ideas about fair use and sharing change
• They also expect to be able to be in conversation with other creators.
Teachers of Digital Natives should...
Incorporate digital media Learn to gather and share information using
multiple devices Adapt to the changing digital environment Communicate ideas about the fair use of
information
Digital Natives: How today's youth are different from their "digital immigrant" elders and what that means for libraries
http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2006/Digital-Natives-How-todays-youth-are-different-from-their-digital-immigrant-elders-and--w.aspx
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