The digital native - myth and reality

By Neil Selwyn. ASLIB Proceedings, 2009

752 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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In Communication

1. J. V. van Merriënboer
2. Jeffrey Pomerantz
3. Paul A. Kirschner
4. Jeffrey Alan Greene
5. Tama Leaver
6. Tim Friedman
7. W. Schulz
8. J. Fraillon

In Education

1. J. V. van Merriënboer
2. Paul A. Kirschner
3. Jeffrey Alan Greene
4. Eveline Gebhardt
5. Tama Leaver
6. Tim Friedman
7. W. Schulz
8. J. Fraillon

In Sociology and Political Science

1. J. V. van Merriënboer
2. Paul A. Kirschner
3. Jeffrey Alan Greene
4. Tama Leaver
5. Tim Friedman
6. W. Schulz
7. J. Fraillon
8. Pedro De Bruyckere

Citations in the corpus

• Predictors of Retention and Achievement in a Massive Open Online Course (2015, background): “…debunked with empirical evidence that most students need assistance learning online (Bennett, Maton, & Kervin, 2008; Kirschner & van Merriënboer, 2013; Selwyn, 2009), there is some suspicion JEFFREY A. GREENE is an associate professor of learning sciences and psychological studies at the…”
• The myths of the digital native and the multitasker (2017, background): “Finally Selwyn (2009) notes that “there are few ways in which the current “digital native” generation can be said to constitute a total disjuncture and discontinuity from previous generations” (p. 375) and that “young people's engagements with digital technologies are varied and often unspectacular…”
• Intimate Surveillance: Normalizing Parental Monitoring and Mediation of Infants Online (2017, background): “0” (Allen, 2013), research has largely disproven the notion that younger people have an intrinsically deeper and more literate understanding of online technologies simply by virtue of when they were born (Bayne & Ross, 2011; Bennett, Maton, & Kervin, 2008; Jones, Ramanau, Cross, & Healing, 2010; Sel”
• Preparing for Life in a Digital Age: The IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study International Report (2014, background): “Selwyn (2009) similarly challenges suppositions about the quality and value of much of young people’s self-directed ICT learning, observing that “if anything young people’s use of the internet can be described most accurately as involving the passive consumption of knowledge rather than the active…”
• Do Learners Really Know Best? Urban Legends in Education (2013, background): “Selwyn (2009) carried out a thorough review of recently published literature on young people and digital technology in information sciences, education studies, and media/communication studies.”