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'Digital students' are defined as young adult students who have grown up with active participation in technology as an everyday feature of their lives. This is an attempt to identify the relation between the use of a certain technology and the respective digital students characteristics. The introduction of these characteristics had an influence on the requisite the students require from learning and communication.
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DIGITAL STUDENTS – IS THERE A GAP?
Dr.ing. Diana Andone
EDEN Fellow 2012
“Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania
EDEN 2012 Porto
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Digital natives Digital immigrants
distinction is based on age neuroplasticity of the brain
Mark Prensky, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2010
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The RO students’ use of technology
1. Mobile phone 2. SMS – text messaging 3. E-mail 4. Search engines (like Gogle) 5. Online messenger (Yahoo, MSN, others) 6. Skype, Google Talk, etc (VoIP) 7. Youtube (or other online video) 8. Flickr, Picassa (or other online photo album) 9. Online games 10. Blog 11. Wikipedia 12. FaceBook, MySpace, Hi5 or other online social networking 13. Second Life 14. Google Documents 15. Twitter
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the technology is very much embedded in young generation life their “use and skills are not uniform. There is no evidence of widespread and universal disaffection, or of a distinctly different learning style the like of which has never been seen before.” (Bennett, Maton and Kervin 2008).
there is a ”relation to the links between social disadvantage and digital disengagement”, “technological and social disadvantages are inextricably linked” (Helsper 2008).
how the young generation mix technology in learning
Accesses to technology, education level, society implications, media exposure
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Digital students & Learning Selwyn’s (2006) indicate also that
students, which had an extensive use of technology, were also frustrated that their freedom of use was diminished in the educational environment and “were well aware of a digital disconnect but displayed a pragmatic acceptance rather than the outright alienation from the school that some commentators would suggest
Digital students & Learning Oblinger, 2005,2009, Raines 2010, Livingstone 2008, 2010 : Ability to multitask Preference to learn from pictures, sounds and video
rather than text Interactive and networked activities are their first choice
young people lack key skills in evaluating adequately online content and they are inclined to use it as their own without knowing or understanding the skill of paraphrasing (Livingstone, Bober and Helsper 2005)
Digital students & Learning Homo Zappiens communicates using tools such as MSN,
chat rooms and cell phones (Vern) Bob Woods they “rely on the ‘Net to help them with
completing their schoolwork virtual guidance counsellor virtual study groups (Jones and Madden)
They are not “the many”….
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Technology Characteristics Learning Communication
Computers Confident
Tech-savvy
Constant use of technology Write electronically
(type)
Games Strategic thinking
Evaluation and ‘reputation
systems’
Learn from images, audio,
videos
Doing rather then knowing
Motivated for achieving
(winning)
Goal focused
Internet &
Web
Search and browsing for
information
Networking
Non-linear
Rely on the online data
Danger of plagiarism
Permanently online
Immediate response
Mobiles Use of multiple tools and
media
‘Texting thumb’
Meet and connect instantly
Share and exchange
‘Push’ information and
knowledge
Instant
communication
enjoy enhanced interactivity and connections perceive their learning environment as boundless no single approach leave the power of choice of the ‘right one’ to the
student
Master the technology!
Think differently!!
Is it a Gap? debate about digital natives represents an academic form
of moral panic” (Bennett, Maton and Kervin 2008) connection between the use of technology and age
several others indicates that “learning and technology has nothing to do with generational divides.” (Ponterfact, 2010).
Vaidhyanathan states “there is no such thing as a digital generation”, as he mentions that in every generation there is a similar bell curve for accepting technology (Vaidhyanathan 2008).
Is it a Gap? April 2012, 53% of American adults age 65 and older use
the internet or email
69% of adults ages 65 and older report that they have a mobile phone, up from 57% in May 2010
February 2012, one third (34%) of internet users age 65 and older use social networking sites such as Facebook, and 18% do so on a typical day
August 2011, 86% of internet users age 65 and older use email
Pew Intrenet – 6 June 2012 Older adults and internet use
Don’t be afraid!
@diando70
Diana Andone Director
eLearning Center “Politehnica” University of Timisoara
Romania [email protected]
EDEN 2012 Porto
