Deconstructing Digital Natives

Dr. Michael Thomas is Senior Lecturer in language learning technologies and digital business communication in the School of Languages and International Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.

Foreword, David Buckingham, University of London, UK

1. Technology, Education and the Discourse of the Digital Native: Between Evangelists and Dissenters, Michael Thomas, University of Central Lancashire, UK

I. Reflecting on the Myth

2. Digital Wisdom and Homo Sapiens Digital: From Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives to the Digitally Wise, Marc Prensky, Educational Consultant, USA

3. Students, the Net Generation and Digital Natives: Accounting for Educational Change, Chris Jones, The Open University, UK

II. Perspectives

4. Disempowering by Assumption: Digital Natives and EU Civic Web Project, Shakuntala Banaji, London School of Economics, UK

5. Japanese Youth and Mobile Media, Toshie Takahashi, Harvard University, USA, Rikkyo University, Japan

6. Analysing Students’ Multimodal Texts: The Product and the Process, Mike Levy, The University of Queensland, Australia & Rowan Michael, Griffith University, Australia

7. Citizens Navigating in Literate Worlds: The Case of Digital Literacy, Ola Erstad, University of Oslo, Norway

8. Beyond Google and the "Satisficing" Searching of Digital Natives, Gregor E. Kennedy & Terry S. Judd, University of Melbourne, Australia

9. Actual and Perceived Online Participation among Young people in Sweden, Sheila Zimic & Rolf Dalin, Mid Sweden University, Sweden

10. Young Children, Digital Technology and Interaction with Text, Rachael Levy, University of Sheffield, UK

III. Beyond Digital Natives

11. Intellectual Field or Faith-based Religion: Moving on From the Idea of "Digital Natives," Sue Bennett, University of Wollongong, Australia & Karl Maton, University of Sydney, Australia

12. Reclaiming an Awkward Term: What We Might Learn from "Digital Natives," John Palfrey & Urs Gasser, Harvard University, USA