
“OK, the idea that kids these days are “digital natives” is a nice, self-serving fairy tale. It makes tech-lovers feel good, because they feel like they are at the front of a curve. It makes educators feel good, because then they don’t have to teach a complicated and multi-level sets…
(Source: metafilter.com)
The notion of “digital natives” is comforting, but in the end, it’s a myth.
No Digital Natives afterall? What’s the world coming to?
Hopefully we can stop referring to kids these days as ‘digital natives.’ I wrote about this in The Atlantic last year...