Millennials Will Benefit and Suffer Due to Their Hyperconnected Lives.Pew Internet & American Life Project

Posted by Celia Walter | 9 Mar, 2012
Teens and young adults brought up from childhood with a continuous connection to each other and to information will be nimble, quick-acting multitaskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and who approach problems in a different way from their elders, according to a new survey of technology experts.

Many of the experts surveyed by Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center and the Pew Internet Project said the effects of hyperconnectivity and the always-on lifestyles of young people will be mostly positive between now and 2020. But the experts in this survey also predicted this generation will exhibit a thirst for instant gratification and quick fixes, a loss of patience, and a lack of deep-thinking ability due to what one referred to as "fast-twitch wiring." From overview

+ Direct link full report (PDF; 1 MB)

 Millennials Will Benefit and Suffer Due to Their Hyperconnected Lives By Heather Negley

Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project.

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The digital generation starts now

Posted by Celia Walter | 13 Jan, 2011

...There's been a lot of talk about 'The Google Generation' and 'The Facebook Generation' and my opinion of both of these epithets is well known - they're rubbish. Yes, yes, I know that children today seem to use Google quite happily (they don't, but that's another post entirely) and they're happy and easy users of Facebook (they're not, but that's another post entirely) but the current generation of children have nonetheless been brought up with books. When they were babies, that's what there was, and that's how they would have learned, and been introduced to the concept of reading, concentrating on the written word and so on. While they're digital now, the point is that they weren't.

Finally, it's all changed, and the reason for my interest is that Ladybird has launched their popular Baby Touch Peekaboo series for the iPad and the iPhone. The print/paper version is very tactile and attractive for small children, and while the iWotsit can't do that but instead incorporates animation, voiceover, music and sound effects. It's been tested on babies from 3-18 months and has been specifically designed to appeal to children of that age, with gentle screen movements and the development of attention spans and hand/eye coordination.

... For more details there's a good Guardian article on the development.

 

From Phil Bradley's weblog

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World of Data We're Creating on the Internet. From GOOD

Posted by Celia Walter | 18 Oct, 2010

 

 

In the 21 century, we live a large part of our lives online. Almost everything we do is reduced to bits and sent through cables around the world at light speed. But just how much data are we generating? This is a look at just some of the massive amounts of information that human beings create every day.

A GOOD video on Youtube, showing how some of this data comes into play in our daily lives: Life with data

SOURCES: Cisco; comscore; MapReduce, Radacti Group; Twitter; YouTube

A collaboration between GOOD and Oliver Munday, in collaboration with IBM.

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More on Digital Natives

Posted by Celia Walter | 22 May, 2009

Digital Natives web page

Digital Natives wiki

Digital Natives blog

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What..[You] Should Know About Digital Natives

Posted by Celia Walter | 22 May, 2009

... [By age 20, kids will have spent 20,000 hours online –the same amount of time a professional piano player would have spent practicing --Dr. Urs Gasser]

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Key Characteristics of Digital Natives:

They interact with the peers across the globe: This impacts employers, brands, teachers, parents, as this first generation enters the workforce.

Always online: By age 20, kids will have spent 20,000 hours online –the same amount of time a professional piano player would have spent practicing Urs Gasser, paraphrased
Multiple identities, personal and social, shared online and offline (blurring): Online representation is the same as physical representation: what your clothes, friends, vehicles say about you.

Extensive disclosure of personal data: 35% of girls in US are writing a blog vs 20% boys. Opportunity for HR departments to learn more about their employees, but guess what? They Google you too.

Culture of sharing: The default behavior is information sharing, not only do they have the right to speak, but to be heard. Risk: breach of confidentiality is hip, digital natives are fans of wikileaks.

Creators, no longer passive users: This generation creates their own content and shares their opinion online, see the Forrester’s social Technographics to learn about the data.

Information processing habits: Pointed out that the second most popular social network was YouTube. They often ‘graze’ the headlines and don’t often read the full article. (I guess few natives will read this far? Prove me wrong in the comments). Opportunities: companies should allow natives to increase creativity to rip, mix, burn content to encourage interaction.

Peer collaboration, online activism: They often experience work with community builders, and are responsive to intrinsic motizations.

Learning through browsing: Yes wrestles with amount & quality of information, generational “multitakers”. They may not be able to identify qualified and expert sources. “If it’s online, it must be true!”

 From:

http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2009/05/14/what-companies-should-know-about-digital-natives/

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Digital Youth Research

Posted by Celia Walter | 4 Dec, 2008

Website for a project that "explores how kids use digital media in their everyday lives" outside of school. In addition to a report and the book "Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media," the site features project background, field stories, and a bibliography covering digital media and education, gaming, mobile phone culture, and related topics. Administered by the Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley.
URL: http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/
LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27247

Annotation copyright LII.ORG

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Webcast: The Anthropology of Digital Natives

Posted by Celia Walter | 4 Apr, 2008

Webcast: The Anthropology of Digital Natives - "This is the first lecture in a four-lecture series which examines the generation that has been raised with the computer as a natural part of their lives, with emphasis on the young people currently in schools and colleges today. The series explores the practices and culture of these digital natives, the cultural implications of the phenomenon and the implications for education – schools, universities and libraries" April 7, 2008 at the Library of Congress
Peter Scott's Library blog 

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