ERIC Number: EJ843378
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007
Pages: 8
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Teaching and Learning with the Net Generation
Barnes, Kassandra; Marateo, Raymond C.; Ferris, S. Pixy
Innovate: Journal of Online Education, v3 n4 Apr-May 2007
As the Net Generation places increasingly greater demands on educators, students and teachers must jointly consider innovative ways of teaching and learning. In this, educators are supported by the fact that the Net Generation wants to learn. However, these same educators should not fail to realize that this generation learns differently from previous generations. Kassandra Barnes, Raymond Marateo, and S. Pixy Ferris offer some defining characteristics of Net Geners' learning style and then evaluate ways in which educators are adapting teaching in order to guarantee effective learning by a generation of digital natives. The article's evaluation and advice carries particular resonance as it is written from an insiders' perspective--by two members of the Net Generation and one educator who enjoys teaching them.
Descriptors: Age Differences, Influence of Technology, Educational Innovation, Cognitive Style, Teaching Methods, Technological Advancement, Individual Characteristics, Alignment (Education), Adjustment (to Environment), Instructional Effectiveness
Fischler School of Education and Human Services. Nova Southeastern University, 1750 NE 167th Street, North Miami Beach, FL 33162. Tel: 800-986-3223; e-mail: innovate@nova.edu; Web site: http://innovateonline.info
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Audience: Students; Teachers
Language: English
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