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=Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation=

By Don Tapscott
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Shaina: =The Demographic Revolution Meets the Digital Revolution:=
 * There's finally a new generation in town to challenge the demographic muscle that once belonged to the baby boomer generation. We are the NET GENERATION (aka N-Generation).
 * Who are these N-Geners? 88 million children in U.S. & Canada using their demographic power and mastery of the Internet to become a force for social change.
 * It’s disseminating into other countries, and this wave coincides with the digital revolution that’s transforming our entire society.

=Their Media Usage:= There has been a huge shift in how today's children interact with the media. Interactive media has overpowered broadcast media, and there's a decline in broadcast technology (e.g. TV).
 * Broadcast media is hierarchical, it’s a top-down distribution system & we choose what to watch, but have no real power over it.
 * Internet: a shared system which is at the core of the interaction culture.

=From Broadcast Learning to Interactive Learning:= Power of interactive learning can be a great promoter of learning in schools, but schools are not taking full advantage of this. . . too much drill and kill instruction when technology, like computers, are actually used. ..

Nancy: =The Technology of Interactive Learning:=
 * Tapscott's interest in technology emerged during a college class using CAI (computer aided instruction) in the 1970s. Such technology did not take root then, but now we have a wide range of tools & the net itself, which creates a new learning paradigm.
 * Continuum in learning technologies from broadcast to interactive
 * Ron Owston created a CAI course for novice teachers that includes: 1.) 2 dozen modules w/ suggested readings w/ links to original source. 2.) Electronic seminars with the peer acting as a peer vs. teacher. 3.) Assignments submitted online. 4.) Students learn from peers v. just the progress regurgitating info.
 * Cal. State Northridge: comparative study of students taught in traditional class v. web based online class
 * Findings: although same text, lectures, & exams used the students in the online class scored 20% higher on tests on average vs. students in the traditional class.

MUD = multi-user domain
 * 1) A place on the net for users to make their dramatic adventures in real time.
 * 2) Virtual reality simulations are the next step in digital learning environments.
 * 3) Such simulations allow doctors to navigate through the cardiovascular system; & students can explore the Sistine Chapel.

=Eight Shifts of Interactive Learning:=

1. From Linear to Hypermedia Learning:

 * Linear describes traditional classrooms with books and progressing linearly through concepts & tools one at a time vs. hypermedia learning.
 * In hypermedia students can surf the web and look at multiple resources at one time, obtain a lot of information from different places, it won’t be from one source and might jump from one topic to the next.

2. From Instruction to Construction & Discovery:

 * Schools become places to learn vs. teach & kids want to learn by discovery.
 * Learning should be designed along with learners (constructivist). Cityspace – a fun program children can use to collaborate w/ each other & construct virtual cities, and they’re really do math w/o realizing it.

Katie:

3. From Teacher-Centered to Learner-Centered Education:

 * New media-learning is student centered and improves motivation, while the teacher plays the role of facilitator and must know students’ skills.
 * Teachers start by evaluating the abilities, social context, & other factors affecting learning.
 * Absorbing material becomes learning how to navigate & how to learn.

4. From Absorbing Material to Learning How to Navigate & How to Learn:

 * N-Geners learn to assess & analyze facts as well as synthesize.
 * They engage w/ info. sources & other people online, & then build or construct higher-level structures & mental images.
 * Previous generations good at analysis but N-geners good at synthesizing.

5. From School Learning to Lifelong Learning:

 * Baby boomers went to school and learned a trade/profession and the challenge was to keep up with developments in one’s field, but not learning is a continuous, lifelong process, which our education system can’t anticipate

6. From One-Size Fits All to Customized Learning:

 * Industrial economy no longer producing education, we’re shifting towards a digital economy & mass media.. So now learning is tailored to individual students.

Amanda:

7. From Learning As Torture to Learning As FUN!

 * Educators say "learning and entertainment should be clearly separate"
 * Author suggests "learning should be FUN!"
 * Entertain = "to keep, hold, or maintain in the mind"; "to receive & take into consideration."
 * Best teachers are ENTERTAINERS! Using new media, the students become the entertainers that build enjoyment, motivation, and responsibility for learning!

8. From Teacher As Transmitter to Teacher As Facilitator:

 * Learning is now a social activity
 * Learners are now constructing their own knowledge, working collaboratively with peers and online resources; teachers assist as technical consultants
 * This new generation of teachers must learn new tools, approaches, & skills; Challenging due to resistance to change, cutbacks, low teacher morale, lack of time w/ greater workloads, & reduced retraining budgets

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=References:= Papert, S. (1996). The connected family: bridging the digital generation gap. Marietta, GA: Longstreet Press. Papert, S. (1997). The Christian Science Monitor, 21 April 1997. Postman, N. (1995). Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. NY: Penguin Books.