Net Gen Skeptic

"New research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), has revealed that some university students are confused by ...

I guess it was bound to happen. As new technologies develop and spread, new myths are created.  We have had 10 years of unfounded hype abo...

Here's another study that suggests student use of digital technology in higher education is more complex and nuanced that the net gen di...

It's interesting that some of the most outspoken criticism of Ontario's plans to use more online learning in higher education is co...

David White and his colleagues at Oxford University are doing some interesting research that parallels what we have been doing in our Digita...

One of the major problems with the digital native discourse is that it frames digital literacy in generational terms and portrays all people...

It is refreshing to read a report on the use of digital technologies in education that doesn't frame the issue in generational terms. Em...

After four years of digging into the digital native/net generation/millennial learner rhetoric, I have come to a distressing conclusio...

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...