Found this via the learningevolves Wiki.
Rob Wall got a bit frustrated listening to a keynote speaker talk about Digital Natives, and decided to blog his opinion here. He argues many of the same points that I do – but perhaps articulates them better!
He writes:
A colleague of mine observed that students don’t really understand the technology any better than most adults, they are just less afraid of making mistakes. They may figure things out on a computer faster, but they are just as likely to be mistaken as an adult.
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If we project certain qualities and attributes onto our students, instead of learning what they really can do and what they really need to learn, we do them a great disservice by not providing the education (that is, formalized school learning) that they need.
You may or may not agree with his comments in his last paragraph – about how modern Web 2.0 methods of communication are simply speedier and more widely distributed variations of how students have always communicated – but they are worth consideration.
