Net Gen Skeptic

Two items that appeared in my news reader this week that make me wonder about the educational profession. First there was this one: "...

 While futurists and pundits continue to crank out the books portraying the "digital native" as some kind of newly-discovered trib...

It appears the tide is finally turning and the uncritical acceptance of the digital natives discourse is giving way to a more nuanced perspe...

One of the highlights of the EDMEDIA 2011 conference in Lisbon has been the number of presentations on research into the use of digital tech...

From a survey of 812 students at the University of South Australia: "The findings from this survey indicate that there is greater...

Sherry Turkle is one of the most thoughtful commentators on the impact of digital technology on society. Here is a presentation she gave at ...

Here's another report on trends in educational technology. The New 3E's of Education: Enabled, Engaged and Empowered is from the U...

We finished writing this article back in December 2009. Fifteen months later it has finally been published in the Canadian Journal of Learni...

According to Stephen Downes , Jim Shimabukuro ,  does a "systemic shredding" of my research and other research that is reaching t...

I missed this article when it was first published late last year but like the one I reported on yesterday, it also comes from the Netherl...