Digital Natives or Digital Tribes?

Can we teach digital natives digital literacy?

In recent years, there has been much debate about the concept of digital natives, in particular the differences between the digital natives’ knowledge and adoption of digital technologies in informal versus formal educational contexts. This paper investigates the knowledge about educational technologies of a group of undergraduate students studying the course Introduction to eLearning at a univ...

Two generations of digital natives

From surveys, interviews and observations in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, we assert that there are two generations of digital natives (ND): young people 1.0 and 2.0. Although both share common characteristics, the 2.0 has particular characteristics: they are a post-mail generation, often growing up around digital environments and they tend to share intimacy aspects in an online mode. Th...

Are digital natives a myth or reality? University students' use of digital technologies

This study investigated the extent and nature of university students’ use of digital technologies for learning and socialising. The findings show that students use a limited range of mainly established technologies. Use of collaborative knowledge creation tools, virtual worlds, and social networking sites was low. ‘Digital natives’ and students of a technical discipline (Engineering) used more ...

Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives

Effective Online Testing - Nurturing the Digital Natives

This paper aims to take a glance at a flexible solution for online-testing at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (AAUK). We will present a recently implemented software that allows students to conduct their exams online and directly on their own devices, while at the same time preventing them accessing locally stored files or non-specified internet pages. A survey among the participating st...