Why Professor Johnny Can't Read: Understanding the Net Generation's Texts
From Mark Mabrito and Tebecca Medley, in innovate: journal of online education, comes this more academic and thoughtful version of the cyclic news item about how differently some of the youngsters are communicating:
One way of better understanding Net-Generation learners is to examine the texts they create on online social networking, blogging, and image sites as well as in virtual worlds. Mark Mabrito and Rebecca Medley explore the nature of Net-Generation texts as a reflection of the cognitive differences between this generation's students and their older instructors, discuss the unique challenges this group of learners may present for instructors who do not share their technological immersion, and suggest the means by which such challenges may be overcome. To accommodate the needs of the Net Generation, Mabrito and Medley suggest that faculty must reconsider traditional pedagogy and integrate more innovative ways of instruction for this significantly different population of students.
Labels: assessing student learning, Millennials, Net Generation, pedagogy
posted by Terry Calhoun at
1:50 PM
1 Comments:
This is a poorly researched article. It seems that the authors have misunderstood some of their sources. Either that or they are intentionally misleading readers. Either way, it's a terrible article. The adaptive plasticity of the brain is not, for example, what they seem to think it is. It does not mean that if children are exposed to digital stimuli, their brains will change so that their cognition functions differently from their parents' generation.
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