Yesterday I took the opportunity to chat to four digital natives of differing ages at my home. They were Anna (school), Patrick final year university), Yvette (university student) and Carl (last year at school). Anna (17) multi-tasks regularly: listening to music, texting or mailing, doing homework etc and finds it normal and unproblematic. Carl (18) [...]

Returning to the theme of digital natives and digital immigrants, I notice that Owen writing in futurelab casts doubts in four areas – citing reputable sources as he does so:
- 20-35 year olds are more into game playing than any other group
- adults phone but teenagers use SMS’ because they are cheaper
- ICT is most [...]

Today I made several discoveries one after the other. Very good for one morning! I set out to find information about digital natives and after using my favourite Copernic metasearch engine I found Apple Learning Interchange. Within that I found Ian Juke’s podcast called Learning Environments for Digital Kids in their distinguished educators’ podcasts series. [...]