Understanding Students Who Were 'Born Digital'

[solitaire89]

People always say this but there is never any evidence to back it up. My grand parents used to say it about my dad's school life. My parents said it about my school life. Now people my age are saying it about todays school kids. I'd love to see some evidence of it though.

 

I beg to differ, there may be no scientific evidence to prove it (how would you go about it?), but when I look at my exercise books that I found in the loft during my recent move, kids' work today is not a patch on it, and I wasn't one of the best in the class by a long way

I can see that we're not going to agree though, so call it quits and we'll both stick to own opinions?!

[Arcath]

I think this may be reffering to the txt spk whre we try 2 fit as mny wrds as we can in2 r 180 letr limit......

 

It really annoys me when people post status updates on facebutt like that.

 

me too, i dont mind it in text messages because it does mean you can fit more into the limit, but on facebook or in an IM convo you dont need it. It does seem to be gettnig better tho, now people are getting smart phones/touch screen phones with a full QWERTY keyboard they are begging to type out the whole word.

[tech_guy]

I hate it when you get informed little johnny is a computer wizard because he uses Facebook...

[Arcath]

I hate it when you get informed little johnny is a computer wizard because he uses Facebook...

 

i did actually have a kid more computer literate than a teacher. I altered my printer script so that none of the class room machines got the PPA room printer (big oki printer that was eating toner at the time). a week later when i returned i noticed that one teacher was still prining off rubbish to it... it turns out that she had said "Wheres the printer gone?" inforont of her year 6 class and one of the kids had addedit back for her! hats off to the kid for knowing how to add a network printer... and how to work out the UNC path...

 

suffice to say i very quickly removed the ability to add printers from everyone

 

but the point here is that adding a printer is a pretty simple task, anyone can do it if you know the unc path etc...

 

I think its more that most of the older generation think that this kind of thing is something that can only be done by someone whos trained in how to do it. There seems to be a culture of "Ignorance with no desire to learn" The only reason the kids seem very computer literate is that they are using them whilst thier brains are in learning mode so when they watch the techie come in and add a printer they remeber how it happened where as a teacher watching thinks "and now hes doing some thing that i dont need to see"

Edited March 16, 2010 by Arcath
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