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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


Wikipedia - 2001


Skype - 2003


Podcasts – 2004


YouTube – 2005

Digital Natives Reality 1

Media and gadgets are ubiquitous parts of

everyday life

Digital Natives

Kaiser Family Foundation, Generation M, March 2005


New gadgets allow them to enjoy media and carry on communication anywhere


The internet is at the center of the revolution


Multi-tasking is a way of life – and people live in a

state of “continuous partial attention”

--- Linda Stone


Ordinary citizens have a chance to be publishers,

movie makers, artists, song creators, and story

tellers


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.”


• 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


• 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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