Deconstructing Digital Natives

Young People, Technology, and the New Literacies
Herausgeber: Thomas, Michael

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

There have been many attempts to define the generation of students who emerged with the Web and new digital technologies in the early 1990s. The term "digital native" refers to the generation born after 1980, which has grown up in a world where digital technologies and the internet are a normal part of everyday life. Young people belonging to this generation are therefore supposed to be "native" to the digital lifestyle, always connected to the internet and comfortable with a range of cutting-edge technologies. Deconstructing Digital Natives offers the most balanced, research-based view of this group to date. Existing studies of digital natives lack application to specific disciplines or conditions, ignoring the differences of educational fields and gender. How, and how much, are learners changing in the digital age? How can a more pluralistic understanding of these learners be developed? Contributors to this volume produce an international overview of developments in digital literacy among today's young learners, offering innovative ways to steer a productive path between traditional narratives that offer only complete acceptance or total dismissal of digital natives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9780415889933
• ISBN-10: 0415889936
• Artikelnr.: 31798872

Autorenporträt

Dr. Michael Thomas is Senior Lecturer in language learning technologies and digital business communication in the School of Languages and International Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
David Buckingham
University of London
UK 1. Technology
Education and the Discourse of the Digital Native: Between Evangelists and Dissenters
Michael Thomas
University of Central Lancashire
UK I. Reflecting on the Myth 2. Digital Wisdom and Homo Sapiens Digital: From Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives to the Digitally Wise
Marc Prensky
Educational Consultant
USA 3. Students
the Net Generation and Digital Natives: Accounting for Educational Change
Chris Jones
The Open University
UK II. Perspectives 4. Disempowering by Assumption: Digital Natives and EU Civic Web Project
Shakuntala Banaji
London School of Economics
UK 5. Japanese Youth and Mobile Media
Toshie Takahashi
Harvard University
USA
Rikkyo University
Japan 6. Analysing Students' Multimodal Texts: The Product and the Process
Mike Levy
The University of Queensland
Australia & Rowan Michael
Griffith University
Australia 7. Citizens Navigating in Literate Worlds: The Case of Digital Literacy
Ola Erstad
University of Oslo
Norway 8. Beyond Google and the "Satisficing" Searching of Digital Natives
Gregor E. Kennedy & Terry S. Judd
University of Melbourne
Australia 9. Actual and Perceived Online Participation among Young people in Sweden
Sheila Zimic & Rolf Dalin
Mid Sweden University
Sweden 10. Young Children
Digital Technology and Interaction with Text
Rachael Levy
University of Sheffield
UK III. Beyond Digital Natives 11. Intellectual Field or Faith-based Religion: Moving on From the Idea of "Digital Natives
" Sue Bennett
University of Wollongong
Australia & Karl Maton
University of Sydney
Australia 12. Reclaiming an Awkward Term: What We Might Learn from "Digital Natives
" John Palfrey & Urs Gasser
Harvard University
USA