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What is Digital Natives

Chapter 7
Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technologies and Adult Education Integration
The generation that has grown up with computer and internet technologies as an integral part of their lives.
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The Use of Web 2.0 Technologies in the ESL Classroom
Melissa Wright (University of Southern Mississippi, USA) and Lilian H. Hill (University of Southern Mississippi, USA)
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-906-0.ch007
Abstract
This chapter includes a brief history of the Internet, definitions of Web 2.0 and characterization of its social nature, identification and descriptions of the various Web 2.0 technologies, applications of sociocultural perspectives to language learning, the benefits of using Web 2.0 in the English as a Second Language (ESL) classroom, ways in which Web 2.0 has been used successfully in various academic settings, and specific activities for using Web 2.0 in ESL instruction. It is imperative that ESL instructors become familiar with internet technologies and ways they can be used to enhance the educational experiences of their students. The more familiar students are with Web 2.0 technologies, the better prepared they will be for their future educational and occupational endeavors.
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Chapter 10
Perception Is (as) Reality
Individuals who grew up using the Internet and other forms of electronic technology.
Published in Chapter: Perception Is (as) Reality; From: Handbook of Research on Media Literacy Research and Applications Across Disciplines
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Chapter 10
The Study of Virtual Reality Technology in the Context of Simulation Concept With Regards to Children's Use Case Study Project Nebula: Virtual Reality Technology in the Context of Simulation
The generation born and raised in digital age know the technologies of this age closely and they have a command on the language specific to this age.
Published in Chapter: The Study of Virtual Reality Technology in the Context of Simulation Concept With Regards to Children's Use Case Study Project Nebula: Virtual Reality Technology in the Context of Simulation; From: Handbook of Research on Children's Consumption of Digital Media
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Chapter 13
No More War Stories: Transitioning From Journalist to Instructor in This Modern Age
People for whom digital technologies such as computers, cell phones, video games, and digital cameras already existed when they were born.
Published in Chapter: No More War Stories: Transitioning From Journalist to Instructor in This Modern Age; From: Cultivating Entrepreneurial Changemakers Through Digital Media Education
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Chapter 9
Stimuli for the Use of Digital Influencers in the Culture Sector: An Analysis of the Portuguese Context
A digital native is a person who grew up with the presence of digital technology or in the information age. Having grown up in information technologies (IT) presence, digital natives are comfortable with and fluent in technology.
Published in Chapter: Stimuli for the Use of Digital Influencers in the Culture Sector: An Analysis of the Portuguese Context; From: Using Influencer Marketing as a Digital Business Strategy
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Chapter 5
Pre-Service Teachers and Technology Integration: International Cases and Generational Attitudes toward Technology in Education
Individuals born after 1980; generally presumed to have a high level of facility in working with digital technologies, and an intuitive understanding and preference for working with such technologies.
Published in Chapter: Pre-Service Teachers and Technology Integration: International Cases and Generational Attitudes toward Technology in Education; From: Handbook of Research on Global Issues in Next-Generation Teacher Education
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Chapter 8
Associations Between Dependency on LINE Text Messaging and Occurrence of Negative Emotions in LINE Group Chats
Digital natives are born into an information/communications technology environment where the Internet, email, and mobile phones are commonly used.
Published in Chapter: Associations Between Dependency on LINE Text Messaging and Occurrence of Negative Emotions in LINE Group Chats; From: The Psychology and Dynamics Behind Social Media Interactions
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Chapter 10
App Smashing to Bolster Preservice Teachers' Digital Teaching Repertoires: “Don't Stop Doing This”
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Chapter 3
Shifting of Paradigm in Buying Behaviour of Digital Natives
Born in 1981 and onwards who grew up under the ubiquitous influence of internet surrounded by digital technologies.
Published in Chapter: Shifting of Paradigm in Buying Behaviour of Digital Natives; From: Digital Natives as a Disruptive Force in Asian Businesses and Societies
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Chapter 6
Principles of Learning in the Technology-Enhanced Classroom
A term applied to younger generations who have grown up exposed to digital technology and ostensibly proficient at, and perhaps requiring, use of technology for learning (is erroneous and not supported by research).
Published in Chapter: Principles of Learning in the Technology-Enhanced Classroom; From: Handbook of Research on Mobile Devices and Smart Gadgets in K-12 Education
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Chapter 37
Digital Literacy Research
Term used to describe young people who have been brought up in a technologically-rich environment (generally thought to be those born around or after 1984).
Published in Chapter: Digital Literacy Research; From: Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration
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Chapter 12
Students in Socially Vulnerable Contexts: Discovering Their Entrepreneurial Potential
Users that were born with technological devices at their fingertips which constituted their way of connecting with each other.
Published in Chapter: Students in Socially Vulnerable Contexts: Discovering Their Entrepreneurial Potential; From: Handbook of Research on Software Quality Innovation in Interactive Systems
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Chapter 3
Consumers as Producers: Information Decomposition Exploiting the Prosumerist culture
Segment of the audience who are immersed in a digitally networked environment.
Published in Chapter: Consumers as Producers: Information Decomposition Exploiting the Prosumerist culture; From: Handbook of Research on Cultural and Economic Impacts of the Information Society
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Chapter 13
Digital Media Consumption of Children in Cinema
A generation born in technological age, and grew up with technology.
Published in Chapter: Digital Media Consumption of Children in Cinema; From: Handbook of Research on Children's Consumption of Digital Media
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Chapter 12
Technology and Digital Content: Promoting Learner-Centered Pedagogy
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Chapter 13
Digitized Public Administration: Using Gamification to Introduce Innovation
Those born after 1970 who learned that computers and technical devices are a common part of their daily life and aid many tasks.
Published in Chapter: Digitized Public Administration: Using Gamification to Introduce Innovation; From: Business Management and Communication Perspectives in Industry 4.0
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Chapter 2
Enhancing Elementary Classroom Learning Experiences With Mobile Learning: Implications for Practice
A word coined to denote a group of children born between 2010 and 2025, who have grown up surrounded by technology and under the influence of modern digital informational technologies.
Published in Chapter: Enhancing Elementary Classroom Learning Experiences With Mobile Learning: Implications for Practice; From: Impactful Classroom Experiences in Elementary Schools: Practices and Policies
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Chapter 6
Strengths and Challenges of Digital Tools in EAP Remote Learning Settings
Individuals who were raised in a time where technology was prevalent and heavily used in all aspects of life.
Published in Chapter: Strengths and Challenges of Digital Tools in EAP Remote Learning Settings; From: Cases on Innovative and Successful Uses of Digital Resources for Online Learning
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Chapter 49
A Model for Effective Delivery of Online Instruction
Children and young adults who have grown up with technological advances (computers, cell phones, and electronic games) and understand how to operate and manipulate them with ease.
Published in Chapter: A Model for Effective Delivery of Online Instruction; From: Handbook of Research on Didactic Strategies and Technologies for Education: Incorporating Advancements
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Chapter 19
Towards a Model of a Didactics of eLearning: An Application to Education for Sustainable Development
Are young people who were born in a world already dominated by technology and who are fluent in the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet in general.
Published in Chapter: Towards a Model of a Didactics of eLearning: An Application to Education for Sustainable Development; From: Handbook of Research on Engaging Digital Natives in Higher Education Settings
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Chapter 2
How Adults Learn Through Information Technologies
Individuals, usually born since 1985, who have grown up in the digital world.
Published in Chapter: How Adults Learn Through Information Technologies; From: Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technologies and Adult Education Integration
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Chapter 15
Developments and Global Trends in the Education and Business Sectors in the Post-COVID-19 Period: The Mexican Case
A person born or brought up during the age of digital technology and therefore familiar with computers and the Internet from an early age.
Published in Chapter: Developments and Global Trends in the Education and Business Sectors in the Post-COVID-19 Period: The Mexican Case; From: Handbook of Research on Emerging Business Models and the New World Economic Order
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Chapter 62
Interaction Speed as Nonverbal Cues in Text Messaging via Smartphone
Digital natives are born into an information/communications technology environment where the Internet, email, and mobile phones are commonly used.
Published in Chapter: Interaction Speed as Nonverbal Cues in Text Messaging via Smartphone; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fifth Edition
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Chapter 9
Digital Literacy Training: Opportunities and Challenges
They are the new generation born into the digital age, while digital immigrants are those who learn to use computers at some stage during their adult life.
Published in Chapter: Digital Literacy Training: Opportunities and Challenges; From: Handbook of Research on the Role of Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Achieving Civic Engagement and Social Justice in Smart Cities
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Chapter 8
Introduction to Online Learning and the Adult Learner
are all “native speakers” of the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet. Some refer to them as the N-(for Net)-gen or D-(for digital)-gen (Prensky, 2001). They were all born after 1980 (Palfrey & Gasser, 2008).
Published in Chapter: Introduction to Online Learning and the Adult Learner; From: Handbook of Research on Student-Centered Strategies in Online Adult Learning Environments
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Chapter 7
Transforming Preservice Teacher TPACK by Transforming Faculty Digital Agency: Case Studies From the Provost's Inaugural Digital Learning Initiative Fellows
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Chapter 9
Game Literacy: Assessing its Value for Both Classification and Public Perceptions of Games in a New Zealand Context
Mark Prensky is acknowledged to have coined the term digital native in 2001 in his work Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants. In his seminal article, he assigns it to a new breed of student entering educational establishments who have grown up using digital technology. These students take technology for granted compared to digital immigrants who adapt to technological developments. A native will refer to their ‘new camera’ whereas an immigrant would more often than not describe it as a ‘digital camera’.
Published in Chapter: Game Literacy: Assessing its Value for Both Classification and Public Perceptions of Games in a New Zealand Context; From: Handbook of Research on Improving Learning and Motivation through Educational Games: Multidisciplinary Approaches
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Chapter 9
An Argumentative Study on Digital Advertising Literacy
A concept created by Marc Prensky for individuals born in a technology-intensive environment in the 1980s and beyond, who can easily adapt to technology.
Published in Chapter: An Argumentative Study on Digital Advertising Literacy; From: Handbook of Research on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Literacy in the Digital Age
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Chapter 8
Cyberbullying: Educators and Parents
Those for whom virtual space is not another area of activity and the natural field of their daily activities.
Published in Chapter: Cyberbullying: Educators and Parents; From: Cyberbullying and the Critical Importance of Educational Resources for Prevention and Intervention
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Chapter 5
Music Branded Content: The Video Clip as an Advertising Medium at the Service of Automotive Brands
A person who is very familiar with digital technology because they have grown up with them (Millennials, Generation Z, and Generation Alpha).
Published in Chapter: Music Branded Content: The Video Clip as an Advertising Medium at the Service of Automotive Brands; From: Handbook of Research on the Future of Advertising and Brands in the New Entertainment Landscape
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Chapter 3
Building Capacity through Student Leadership Development and Practices
Individuals that have interacted with digital technology from an early age and are comfortable with technology and digital language found in computers, phones, video games, and the internet.
Published in Chapter: Building Capacity through Student Leadership Development and Practices; From: Encyclopedia of Strategic Leadership and Management
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Chapter 11
Teaching Digital Natives Using Technology: Learning Requirements, Multimedia Design Elements, and Effectiveness
Learners who are entering higher education who use many different forms of technology, yet technology use can differ with regards to age, gender, major, socio-economic status, interests, and lifestyle.
Published in Chapter: Teaching Digital Natives Using Technology: Learning Requirements, Multimedia Design Elements, and Effectiveness; From: Handbook of Research on Technologies for Improving the 21st Century Workforce: Tools for Lifelong Learning
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Chapter 12
Immersing Future Middle-Level Science Educators in a Blended Learning Environment
Individuals who have been exposed to the use of technology throughout their lifetime.
Published in Chapter: Immersing Future Middle-Level Science Educators in a Blended Learning Environment; From: Emerging Techniques and Applications for Blended Learning in K-20 Classrooms
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Chapter 1
Exploiting Digital Skills in Higher Education: A Case Study Analysis
Those who are used to using digital technologies from a very young age, being born in the internet era.
Published in Chapter: Exploiting Digital Skills in Higher Education: A Case Study Analysis; From: IT and the Development of Digital Skills and Competences in Education
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Chapter 138
The Evolution of Online Composition Pedagogy
Generation/people (of students) accustomed to computer technology.
Published in Chapter: The Evolution of Online Composition Pedagogy; From: Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition
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Chapter 9
Rethinking E-Learning and Digital Natives
The generation which was born in the middle of the technological developments and grew with technology.
Published in Chapter: Rethinking E-Learning and Digital Natives; From: Handbook of Research on Children's Consumption of Digital Media
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Chapter 19
Rethinking the Shift in Communication Dynamics Post Pandemic
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Chapter 130
Multimodal Literacy
Being “born digital,” “native speakers” of the digital language of computers, videos, video games, social media and other sites on the internet (Prensky, 2001 AU22: The in-text citation "Prensky, 2001" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).
Published in Chapter: Multimodal Literacy; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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Chapter 16
Digital Home Strategy
Individuals who grew up with close access to digital technologies.
Published in Chapter: Digital Home Strategy; From: The Strategies of Informing Technology in the 21st Century
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Chapter 3
Digital Citizenship and E-Government Integration: The Case of North Cyprus
Person who has easily adapted to technological devices and developments thus they have born during the age of digital technology.
Published in Chapter: Digital Citizenship and E-Government Integration: The Case of North Cyprus; From: Handbook of Research on Digital Citizenship and Management During Crises
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Chapter 23
Social Media as Positive Disruption in Education, E-Learning and B-Learning
The current and future generations of students that have grown up with constant access to the internet and digital media. Term originated with Marc Prensky.
Published in Chapter: Social Media as Positive Disruption in Education, E-Learning and B-Learning; From: Handbook of Research on Business Social Networking: Organizational, Managerial, and Technological Dimensions
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Chapter 10
Beyond Button Smashing: Utilizing Minecraft and Other Video Games as Synchronous Learning Tools for Science Learning
A term coined by Marc Prensky referring to those who have been born into the world of digital technologies and experience the integration of such technologies into their lives as something natural.
Published in Chapter: Beyond Button Smashing: Utilizing Minecraft and Other Video Games as Synchronous Learning Tools for Science Learning; From: Educational Technology and Resources for Synchronous Learning in Higher Education
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Chapter 25
Building Education and Technology Competencies for a Changing Society
Individuals that were born or raised during the age of digital technology and who are familiar and comfortable with computers and the Internet from an early age.
Published in Chapter: Building Education and Technology Competencies for a Changing Society; From: Handbook of Research on Education and Technology in a Changing Society
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Chapter 5
Improving Teachers' Digital Competence to Bridge the Language Gap
People brought up during the age of digital technology, so they are very familiar with computers and the Internet since their childhood.
Published in Chapter: Improving Teachers' Digital Competence to Bridge the Language Gap; From: International Approaches to Bridging the Language Gap
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Chapter 7
STEM for English Language Teaching
People born in digital age and are naturally good at using technology.
Published in Chapter: STEM for English Language Teaching; From: Paradigm Shifts in 21st Century Teaching and Learning
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Chapter 666
The Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge of EFL Teachers (EFL TPACK)
A person born or brought up during the age of digital technology and so familiar with computers and the Internet from an early age.
Published in Chapter: The Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge of EFL Teachers (EFL TPACK); From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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Chapter 23
Digital Storytelling
These are people who have grown up with technology.
Published in Chapter: Digital Storytelling; From: Handbook of Research on Transformative Online Education and Liberation: Models for Social Equality
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Chapter 11
Advances in Anatomical and Medical Visualisation
Our new generation which use technology for information.
Published in Chapter: Advances in Anatomical and Medical Visualisation; From: Handbook of Research on Engaging Digital Natives in Higher Education Settings
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Chapter 21
Mobile Phone Use during Class at a Japanese Women's College
In this chapter, “digital native” is a general term taken to mean those who have been born into an information/communications technology environment where the Web, email, and mobile phones are commonly used. Terms such as “the Net Generation” and “Millennials” are also used to indicate those of about the same (although varying slightly by certain definitions) generation.
Published in Chapter: Mobile Phone Use during Class at a Japanese Women's College; From: Handbook of Research on Media Literacy in the Digital Age
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Chapter 18
Media Literacy, Co-Innovation, and Productivity: Examples from European Countries
Marc Prensky coined it to describe the new generations of students that have always been immersed in the new technological advances and surrounded by computers, videogames, videos, mobiles and all kinds of digital devices. The author uses the term as opposed to digital immigrants.
Published in Chapter: Media Literacy, Co-Innovation, and Productivity: Examples from European Countries; From: Handbook of Research on Media Literacy in the Digital Age
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Chapter 13
Effective Educational Leadership in the Digital Age: An Examination of Professional Qualities and Best Practices
These students are native speakers of technology, very adept in digital computer language, the internet and World Wide Web, and video games, and cell phones. This is a group of students who have grown up with information and communication technology (ICT) as a basic part of their regular lives (Bennett & Kervin, 2008 AU78: The in-text citation "Bennett & Kervin, 2008" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).
Published in Chapter: Effective Educational Leadership in the Digital Age: An Examination of Professional Qualities and Best Practices; From: Handbook of Research on Digital Content, Mobile Learning, and Technology Integration Models in Teacher Education
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Chapter 3
“Let Me Show You”: An Application of Digital Storytelling for Reflective Assessment in Study Abroad Programs
People who were born or were very young during the growth of the digital age. There is a lot of discourse revolving around this term as some people are referred to as digital immigrants. I personally refer to digital natives as those people who do not recall at time when personal electronics were not a part of their natural world.
Published in Chapter: “Let Me Show You”: An Application of Digital Storytelling for Reflective Assessment in Study Abroad Programs; From: Handbook of Research on Human Development in the Digital Age
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