Net Gen Skeptic

In Grown Up Digital , Don Tapscott makes some substantial claims about the Net Generation and its impact on business, education and society ...

In an earlier post , I took a somewhat skeptical view of Don Tapscott's latest book, Grown Up Digital . I said I was put off by the tech...

Christopher Scanlon writes in The Australian : "The question is, why is there such a divergence between claims about digital natives an...

Here is the presentation of the results of the research that looked at how students at the BC Institute of Technology are using information ...

Further to the previous post on the BCIT research, we also examined our students' communication preferences. We wanted to find out how ...

Results of research being conducted that the BC Institute of Technolog y cast serious doubt on many of the Net Generation claims. We survey...

T his comprehensive study of how young learners are searching for and researching content was commissioned by the British Library. While it...

I've never liked the digital native/digital immigrant terminology because it is simplistic and inaccurate. It divides people into two ca...

Here's another review of the literature that raises serious questions about the conventional wisdom around generational differences. Acc...

One point I don't make frequently enough is that I am not anti-technology. My critique of the net gen, digital native discourse is not m...