Net Gen Skeptic

The digital native/net generation hype has quieted down in recent months and thankfully has given way to an increasing amount of solid resea...

In the UK, JISC has just released a large study of the research behaviour of doctoral students born between 1982 and 1994. This is the supp...

"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...