The myth of the digital native
September 28, 2006 — Daniel LivingstoneJust came across this…
From 2004. Martin Owen, the director of the UK’s FutureLab has a short piece on the myth of the digital native. It’s something I’m going to write more about later, so I’m glad that someone agrees with me - and even more glad that he hasn’t used up all my arguments yet!
He does however make one point that my wife also picked up on: If people assume that what Prensky states about digital natives to be true - and it turns out to be false - then they might end up delivering teaching that is less well suited to their students than they believe to be the case.
And for anyone wondering why my wife might be so interested in this topic… she’s an award winning web producer for BBC Scotland, working on schools and education projects. It’s her job too.
