Remember rotary phones? Today's teenagers don't. Frank Kros, president of the Upside Down Organization, discusses the effects of technology, like cell phones and iPods, on the teenager's brain.
Don Tapscott's coining of the Digital Immigrant / Native is perhaps the best current analogy for growing up digital. I would certainly agree children seem more adept at finding and manipulating electronic data than many of us pre-Internet "immigrants".
The more important question is whether children are more proficient at synthesizing information (developing informed opinions) as a result of their technical savvy? I'm not sure the research would support that.
Don Tapscott's coining of the Digital Immigrant / Native is perhaps the best current analogy for growing up digital. I would certainly agree children seem more adept at finding and manipulating electronic data than many of us pre-Internet "immigrants".
The more important question is whether children are more proficient at synthesizing information (developing informed opinions) as a result of their technical savvy? I'm not sure the research would support that.
whirliegig 1 year ago
I don't think so, The Brain is its own Tech.
stormer8i0 3 years ago