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The digital native is a myth
Date: 2017-07-31 04:30 pm (UTC)Paul Kirschner is a pretty reliable sort of person, and does indeed relish debunking myths about how people learn. As with a lot of debunkers, I generally agree with his position, although he tends to believe the evidence is clearer and stronger than I do, and makes his point far more forcefully than I would. He's very entertaining on learning styles. I would say that 'learning styles' is an appealing idea that is contradicted in many important respects by the evidence we have, but he tends to be more forceful in articles. We're similar in down-the-pub mode: I will say they're pretty much bobbins, but he'll say something ruder.
On the digital native nonsense, the culprit was Marc Prensky, who is good in many ways but really frustrating on this one. The real hero is Dave White, who sets out a much more appealing and accurate way of thinking about it: rather than digital natives and digital immigrants, he talks about digital residents and digital visitors. He and I both had the same idea at about the same sort of time, but he turned the idea in to a concrete one and got funding and did proper research to support it and all that, and I just wrote a throwaway blog post and left it there. My version was 'digital tourists', rather than visitors, and I think his version is better.
Re: The digital native is a myth
Date: 2017-07-31 04:40 pm (UTC)Having taught seriously disabled kids for many years, I also have views on learning styles and my hero in this respect was the late Reuven Feuerstein who believed one is capable of teaching anyone and that everyone is capable of learning however disabled.
'Digital native' is like so many buzz terms- it assumes one is at least somewhat privileged and it assumes one is able bodied.
For me, these are not good assumes!