Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn.

By Larry D. Rosen. 2010

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Larry D. Rosen argues for the need to more fully embrace technology and to incorporate digital media when educating young technologically advanced student cohorts. Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn is a good introduction to recent research on the use of technology by young people, and the pedagogical potential of utilising the rapid and unique changes in behaviour of this demographic. However, the book lacks consideration of the ethics of such a pedagogical approach in terms of the implications for students' health, labour and other environmental factors. View PDF for the full review

Subfields: Cultural Studies, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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Situated Learning through Social Networking Communities: The Development of Joint Enterprise, Mutual Engagement, and a Shared Repertoire. (2011, unknown): “In terms of pedagogical advantages, Rosen (2010) suggests that social networks offer opportunities for the exchange of rich multimedia information, microcontent of digestible length, collaboration, synchronous and asynchronous communication, social interaction, and personalization.”
Learning, Student Digital Capabilities and Academic Performance over the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021, background): “Terminologies such as digital natives [28], millennials [29], generation Y [30], i-generation [31], or net generation [32] have been used to describe individuals with common characteristics in the level of technology use into their everyday lives, including learning purposes.”
Effects of video-game play on information processing: A meta-analytic investigation (2013, background): “However, a variety of digital activities (e.g., Internet surfing, social networking, and texting) are outside the scope of our research, despite proposals that such activities may alter cognition by encouraging multi-tasking and divided attention (Foehr, 2006; Greenfield, 2009; Rosen, 2010).”
Is Facebook creating "iDisorders"? The link between clinical symptoms of psychiatric disorders and technology use, attitudes and anxiety (2013, background): “He posits that younger generations—including the Net Generation, born in the 1980s, and the iGeneration, born in the 1990s (Rosen, Carrier, & Cheever, 2010)—show a strong urge to report their activities and believe that their social media audience cares about them, two symptoms central to the…”
An Empirical Examination of the Educational Impact of Text Message-Induced Task Switching in the Classroom: Educational Implications and Strategies to Enhance Learning (2011, background): “…Artículo publicado First online: 01/08/2011 young adults’ propensity to multitask at all times with multiple forms of media, Rosen et al. (2010) suggests that teachers and parents allow children, teens and young adults to multitask, particularly when the task demands of…”