Filosofitis: Nativos/inmigrantes digitales. Un programa de investigacion. Not ‘Natives’ & ‘Immigrants’ but ‘Visitors’ & ‘Residents’ As part of the JISC funded Isthmus project we have been taking a close look not at whattechnologies our students use but at how our they use them. We found that our students could not be usefully categorised as Digital Natives or Digital Immigrants.
I.e. This distinction does not help guide the implementation of technologies it simply provides the excuse that “some people ‘just don’t get it’ which is why your new approach has failed so badly…” Anyway, our students appropriation of online services did not seem to follow a simple pattern based on skill level. It seemed to depend on if they saw the web as a ‘place to live’ or as a collection of useful tools.
This underlying motivation led us to outline two main categories of distance learning student. The ‘Resident’ The resident is an individual who lives a percentage of their life online. The ‘Visitor’ The Visitor is an individual who uses the web as a tool in an organised manner whenever the need arises. Myths of age and digital capability. This is my section on the dual myths of ‘digital natives’ and ‘silver surfers’. It’s a pretty solid first draft, I think, although it’s a little long and will need cutting for length.
I’m also short of references as I got some of the info from other people’s presentations and need to dig out the original references for those. Although frankly, I haven’t had to academically reference anything since I was at university, and the whole endeavour fills me with cold fear! Any help on that front, whether comments on this piece or advice in general, would be so gratefully received! I’ve got to use the Harvard format, which I’ve info on, but which I’ve not yet applied to this piece of work. Anyway, as usual, please do feel free to critique and comment. Myths of age and digital capability There are two common assumptions about the relationship between age and technical competency that rear their heads whenever the internet is discussed.
A conclusion with which Bennett et al. agree: Like this: El mito de la brecha digital según edades — Educar en tiempos de diversidad Archive. A propósito de la imagen simbólica del maletín de libros repartido esta semana y sus desafíos formativos para familias y educadores, he estado pensando en mi experiencia de ser un continuo lector de libros. Aunque la internet consume muchas horas de lectura, constantemente estoy leyendo libros. Han sido buenos compañeros de camino, cuando viajo, antes de dormir, en el baño, repartidos por el living y la cocina, ahí aparecen, en mi velador se acumulan, mi casa está plagada, los colecciono.
Para las vacaciones me llevé muchos a pasear, y por supuesto, cuando trabajo, leo muchos libros. Mis manos los reconocen, dar vuelta sus páginas toda una discreta rutina. Son aprendizaje, entretención y goce. He mantenido con ellos un trato de libertad, sin imposiciones ni controles. Aunque en una época tuve que esconder algunos en el entretecho. Consumir libros, comprar libros. Fin de una pincelada en mi experiencia de lector. How the Google generation thinks differently - Times Online. Beyond the digital native / immigrant dichotomy » Moving at the Speed of Creativity. <div class="greet_block wpgb_cornered"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><a href=" rel="nofollow"><img src=" alt="WP Greet Box icon"/></a></div>Hello there!
If you are new here, you might want to <a href=" rel="nofollow"><strong>subscribe to the RSS feed</strong></a> for updates on this topic. <div style="clear:both"></div></div></div> Great comments and links from Quentin D’Souza and Christopher Harris on my post “Digital refugees and digital bridges” yesterday. Quentin’s diffusion model of technology use IS helpful (categorizing users as innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards) but I think his framework still suffers from the oversimplification problems of a simple dichotomy between “digital natives” and “digital immigrants” view.
On this day.. Reinventing Myself for What? | AlisaCooper.com. Jan 24th, 2008 | By coop | Category: Blogging, Rants, Teaching, Technology I’ve been extremely busy lately reinventing myself. What exactly does that mean? Well, maybe reinventing isn’t the correct term. Maybe I’m recreating myself. People in education are always saying that the today’s students are the millennials, digital natives, born on technology and live on technology. Here’s an example that really befuddles me – my own step son. Ah Yes, recreating me because my students just don’t get.
Here’s what happened yesterday. Sometimes I feel like I’m spoiling students by being too accommodating. Blog de Carolina Gruffat » Nativos digitales. Blog. Digital Writing, Digital Teaching » Blog Archive » A (Somewhat Surprising) Survey of Digital Natives. Inside Higher Ed shares some results from a recent survey of college students about their uses of technology.
Among the more interest findings: Instead, students appear to segment different modes of communication for different purposes. E-mail, Web sites, message boards and Blackboard? Viable ways of connecting with professors and peers. Same for chat, instant messaging, Facebook and text messages? This trend reflects what I have been seeing in my classes this fall — many students are used to doing online research, will email me, and participate in Blackboard to the extent that I require it. What I find more compelling though is that many colleges and professors are not responding to the “sea change” (noted later in the article). At any rate, the final note in the article from the report was this: Indeed, this skills gap needs to be addressed in all classes, not just a Computers 101. Powered by ScribeFire. Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants. Pew Internet & American Life Project.
BlogWalker » Blog Archive » It’s Elementary - Podcasting to Bridge the Divide. I logged on to last night’s It’s Elementary just in time to hear guest Wes Fryer talk about some of the research base behind podcasting (for those needing a justification):, i.e., children learn from retelling. From there, it was a continual stream of great discussion and great links. But the last gem came, I think, from Alice, who shared that she converts her class podcasts in Audacity to WAV files and then has her school secretary use their Robo Dial system to send them out to parents via their phones. Amazing! It’s this kind of innovative thinking and dedication to reaching out to all students that will help bridge the digital divide.
ISTE recently posted their findings from the 2007 Summit on Digital Equity: A National Consideration of Digital Equity. Kudos to Alice for seeking solutions to #3. The report also states that “Learning is not about intellectual capability at all, it is about intellectual processeing. Nativos e inmigrantes digitales y el peligro del pensamiento único. Me gustaría ampliar mi post anterior sobre los conceptos “nativos digitales” e “inmigrantes digitales”. Allí sostuve mi creencia de que estas categorías, como muchas otras que se van poniendo de moda cuando se trata de analizar el fenómeno Internet, en realidad son superficiales y no contribuyen a generar estructuras de análisis sólidas. Aclaro aún más: creo que hay una serie de conceptos surgidos de la mezcla de la informática con el marketing, que han poblado el análisis del fenómeno Internet y que pueden parecer correctos a primera vista, pero que luego, al empezar a difundirse, generan marcos de pensamiento que no ayudan a entender y trabajar sobre la realidad.
Se observan estas conductas como si fueran diferentes de lo que hacen los adultos, porque en realidad estamos cediendo a una fascinación que es mezcla de la fascinación por la herramienta y un desconocimiento notable de lo que hacen los jóvenes y de lo que hacemos los adultos. En las aulas, esto es profundamente pernicioso. Educación y TIC: "Dejemos ser a los nativos digitales"