In the beginning was Marshall McLuhan, who would have celebrated his 98th birthday these days, but more about him later. When I launched this blog almost two years ago, I decided not to accept comments: I observed how other blogs got inundated with horrific verbiage, often unrelated to the piece the comment was supposed to… Continue reading We’re Here to Bury Comments, Not to Praise Them
Tag: Digital Natives
The Rise of the Digital Natives
Who are the digital children of 2017? e-Learning specialist Marc Prensky coined the term Digital Natives and used it in two major articles he published in 2001 (Part I , Part II, PDF.) Digital Natives, he says, “are used to receiving information really fast. They like to parallel process and multi-task. They prefer their graphics… Continue reading The Rise of the Digital Natives