Archive for September, 2008

Australian Chlidren using technology devices
Monday, September 29th, 2008

I just finished reading the research finding that Australian Communication and Media Authority conducted about Australian families with children using media in 2007 and the findings proof that there is a new generation of children who are growing up with a lot of access to the media and their parents value the internet and they [...]

Child Power: Key to the New Learning of the Digital Century
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Another interested article about the digital generation was Child Power: Key to the New Learning of the Digital Century by Seymour Papert. What I agree with this article is about our society is changing incredibly fast and there is not much happening in our schools and there is a big gap which is easy to [...]

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

I have just read the article Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants by Marc Prensky and I completely identified myself as a digital immigrant. I finished the school when just introduced IT and I missed the opportunity to be part of the new generation.  I feel completely foreign to this new generation and its language. It is [...]