Steve Wheeler: The natives are revolting

Steve Wheeler acerca de la teoría de Marc Prensky sobre "nativos" e "inmigrantes" digitales. Un breve e instructivo resumen del estado de la cuestión: la formulación original de Prensky, las sucesivas variantes ("Generación red", "generación Google", etc.), las diversas críticas, las consecuencias en el ámbito educativo...

The evidence is now stacking up that there is indeed a lot of doubt being cast over the digital natives and immigrants theory. It's interesting that although Marc Prensky has revised his theory, with a much more measured 'digital wisdom' approach, many people are either ignorant of it, or simply choose to continue to subscribe to, and quote from the digital natives theory. Perhaps it conveniently suits their purpose....?