The 'digital natives' debate: A critical review of the evidence

By Sue Bennett, Karl Maton, Lisa Kervin. British Journal of Educational Technology, 2008

3,001 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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In Information Systems

1. Maria Ranieri
2. Stefania Manca
3. Jenny Waycott
4. Kirsti Ala-Mutka
5. Sue Bennett
6. J. V. van Merriënboer
7. Jeffrey Pomerantz
8. J. V. van Dijk

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Maria Ranieri
2. Stefania Manca
3. J. V. van Dijk
4. Christine Greenhow
5. Paul A. Kirschner
6. Lisa Burton
7. A. V. van Deursen
8. J. V. van Merriënboer

Citations in the corpus

• Mapping Digital Competence: Towards a Conceptual Understanding (2011, background): “Furthermore, there is considerable debate about whether the naturally technologically-competent young generation really exists, see e.g. Bennett et al. (2008).”
• Seven HCI Grand Challenges (2019, background): “The aforementioned characteristics of young learners are apparently true for some of them (few or many – it doesn ’ t matter), yet they are not valid for every learner (Bennett, Maton, & Kervin, 2008).”
• Debunking the 'digital native': beyond digital apartheid, towards digital democracy (2010, background): “Others contend that while there might be differences between younger and older generation in terms of their use of technology, there is as much variation in skill within the 'digital native generation' (Kennedy et al. 2006; Bennett et al. 2008) as between generations.”
• The digital native - myth and reality (2009, background): “As we have seen, much of the digital native discourse would certainly appear to support a range of presumed yet unsubstantiated “crisis” accounts about the role of public institutions in supporting current generations of children and young people (see Bennett et al., 2008).”
• Covid-19 pandemic and online learning: the challenges and opportunities (2020, background): “However, a substantial number of them do not have the skills expected of digital natives (Bennett et al., 2008), which also prompted Shariman et al. (2012) to conclude that the e ff ects of new digital technologies to rede fi ne literacy are yet to be fully revealed.”
• Less than you think: Prevalence and predictors of fake news dissemination on Facebook (2019, result): “Research on age and digital media literacy often focuses on youth skills acquisition and the divide between “digital natives” and “digital immigrants” (18), but our results suggest renewed focus on the oldest age cohorts.”