Who are the digital children of 2009? e-Learning specialist Marc Prensky coined the term Digital Natives and used it in two major articles he published in 2001 (Part I , Part II, PDF.) Digital Natives, he says, “are used to receiving information really fast. They like to parallel process and multi-task. They prefer their graphics [...]
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The Rise of the Digital Natives
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Learning from others, Narratives, TheoriesTags: 000 Hour Rule, 10, born digital, culture of sharing, digital children, digital immigrant accent, Digital Immigrants, Digital Landscape, Digital Natives, e-Learning, Eric Hoofer, Gird Hotchkiss, Ian Jukes, information processing habits, Jeremiah Owing, Jinx Mile, John Palfrey, Malcolm Glad well, Marc Prensky, multi-tasking, multiple identities, online activism, Outliers, parallel processing, peer collaboration, pruning, random access, speaking digital as second language, Times Online, upwards pressure, Urs Gasser
We’re Here to Bury Comments, Not to Praise Them
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in NarrativesTags: born digital, Chris Saad, collective intelligence, commenting engine, content and gestures, CrunchUp 2009, Digital Natives, digital technologies, Electric and synaptic technologies, Eric Blantz, Implicit information, information flows, internet evolution, James W. Carey, JS-Kit, Khris Loux, localised dialogue synatpticweb.org, Marshall McLuhan, moodle, nervous system, parallel channels, ReadWriteWeb, social constructionism, social graph, split and parallel dialogues, TechCrunch, the electrical network, The Synaptic Web, unified field of experience
In the beginning was Marshall McLuhan, who would have celebrated his 98th birthday these days, but more about him later. When I launched this blog almost two years ago, I decided not to accept comments: I observed how other blogs got inundated with horrific verbiage, often unrelated to the piece the comment was supposed to [...]