After being resistant to any idea of digital native/google generation/net generation throughout the H800 course I am now startting to think there is a new generation, but it is not necerceraly the same as the ones proposed by Prensky and others.
Maybe there is a Net Generation, and they have a tail.
September 17, 2009 · 2 Comments
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Alan Clarke // September 20, 2009 at 5:06 pm |
Hi
I have met many older learners who belong to the Net generation and many young learners who are equally not part of it so one issue for me is that it is not only defined by age
Cheers
Alan
kevhickeyuk // September 20, 2009 at 5:20 pm |
I agree that age has nothing to do with it, but I would include all the learners, no matter how old and how competant as part of this generation.
The word generation reffers to a number of individuals, not just one generic one. I the blog post I have linked to, I try to explain that the difference between current learners and those who have come before, is that current learners expect to be able to choose how they learn no matter how niche. This includes face to face in a classroom, avater to avatar in second life and text to text on mobile devices