The digital melting pot: Bridging the digital native-immigrant divide
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https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v14i7.2474Keywords:
digital natives, technology, 21st century skills, educationAbstract
Educational technology advocates claim today’s students are technologically savvy content creators and consumers whose mindset differs from previous generations. The digital native-digital immigrant metaphor has been used to make a distinction between those with technology skills and those without. Metaphors such as this one are useful when having initial conversations about an emerging phenomenon, but over time, they become inaccurate and dangerous. Thus, this paper proposes a new metaphor, the digital melting pot, which supports the idea of integrating rather than segregating the natives and the immigrants.Downloads
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2009-07-04
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Stoerger, S. (2009). The digital melting pot: Bridging the digital native-immigrant divide. First Monday, 14(7). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v14i7.2474
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