Nativism vs. Literacy

I have read a number of pieces recently attacking the notion of the Digital Native – Prensky’s notion that there is a new generation of students who are in some way soaked in technology to the extent that it has changed their behaviour. Stephen Marshall suggests that the concept of the Digital Native is reaching its […]

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The New Web Literacy

I’ve just given a seminar to my research group (The Learning Societies Lab) on the notion of the New Web Literacy, how e-learning systems should change to support it, and what we should be doing as e-learning researchers to enact and understand that change. I have wanted to present something on this topic ever since […]

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ICALT 2007 – Two steps behind

So the ICALT conference is over for another year. It’s an interesting event that tries to bring together researchers from both east and west, and for the most part it succeeds – the mixture of presenters is about half and half and there is a lot of opportunity to meet people from countries that in […]

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