Corwin Press eBooks· 2012· Book chapter
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
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Short summary
Today's students represent a fundamental discontinuity from previous generations due to the rapid dissemination of digital technology in the late 20th century.
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Key points
- Students have fundamentally changed, not just incrementally.
- The arrival of digital technology in the late 20th century is the cause.
- This change is described as a "singularity" with no possibility of return.
- Current educational systems are misaligned with today's students.
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Abstract
It is amazing to me how in all the hoopla and debate these days about the decline of education in the US we ignore the most fundamental of its causes. Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach. Today’s students have not just changed incrementally from those of the past, nor simply changed their slang, clothes, body adornments, or styles, as has happened between generations previously. A really big discontinuity has taken place. One might even call it a “singularity” – an event which changes things so fundamentally that there is absolutely no going back. This so-called “singularity” is the arrival and rapid dissemination of digital technology in the last decades of the 20 th century.
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