They are different, but how???

Students walking about today’s campus of higher education are different than twenty, even ten years ago. How exactly are they different? Namely technology and the advances that have taken place in their lifetime. Digital Technology emerged in their lifetime and became an everyday convenience, as opposed to earlier decades of students. Mark Prensky refers to these students as “Digital Natives” (2001). Digital Natives grew up with a computer in the home, access to the Internet, cell phones that weren’t attached to a charger in a bag that had to be left in your personal vehicle.

S. Craig Watkins, an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, when questioned, noted that these students are now “walking in armed with technology, from their mobile phone to laptops”. (Beja, 2009).

Beja, M. (2009). How Students, Professors, and Colleges Are, and Should Be, Using Social Media. Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/how-students-professorscolleges-areshould-be-using-social-media/7787. (2009, August 24).

Prensky, M. (2001). Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants. On the Horizon, 9 (5).