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This article proposes a continuum of ‘Visitors’ and ‘Residents’ as a replacement for Prensky’s much‐criticised Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants. Challenging the basic premises upon which Prensky constructed his typology, Visitors and Residents fulfil a similar purpose in mapping individuals’ engagement with the Web.
Critical Issue: Using Technology to Enhance Literacy Instruction
This Critical Issue was coauthored by Ann Holum, Ph.D., and Jan Gahala, M.A. Holum's doctoral work on the use of interactive media to improve children's story-understanding skills sparked her ongoing interest in integrating technologies in K-12 literacy settings; she currently is an independent educational consultant. Gahala is a technical specialist in NCREL's Communications department.
Whether we like it or not, we live in a very unequal and stratified world. We live in societies in which inequality is ignored in education, science, and in the social media.
Digital divide and social media: Connectivity doesn’t end the digital divide, skills do. | Guest Blog
information fluency model
Common Core State Standards Mapped to Information Fluency Digital Information Fluency (DIF) is the ability to find, evaluate and use digital information effectively, efficiently and ethically.
It's all about the conversation: Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Facebook f8 Developer Conference at the San Francisco Design Center. Photograph: Kimihiro Hoshino/AFP/Getty Images The digital domain is a space for conversations based on shared values
Universities must rethink their approach to student digital literacy | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional
Our digital natives are immigrating | Best Practices News | eSchoolNews.com
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Open University research explodes myth of 'digital native'
Gerald Haigh visits his alma mater to learn that a good attitude to technology correlates with good learning habits
Digital Literacy: Are the new technologies changing the way we read and write? Albin Wallace