Posts Tagged ‘Digital Natives’

27th July
2009
written by Rudy Nadler-Nir

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 reflect on. Most relevant to me, however, was the fact that the majority of comments recycle the piece instead of adding something new to the concepts, ideas and thoughts used in the original. Why waste bandwidth with comment like “I agree fully” or “this is nonsense”?  We’re here to bury comments, not to praise them. (more…)

10th June
2009
written by Rudy Nadler-Nir

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 before their text rather than the opposite. They prefer random access (like hypertext). They function best when networked. They thrive on instant gratification and frequent rewards. They prefer games to “serious” work.” ” (more…)