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Direct linkThompson, Penny – Education and Information Technologies, 2015
Eight university students from the "digital native" generation were interviewed about the connections they saw between technology use and learning, and also their reactions to the popular press claims about their generation. Themes that emerged from the interviews were coded to show patterns in how digital natives describe themselves.…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Technology Uses in Education, Generational Differences
Thompson, Penny – Computers & Education, 2013
This study investigated the claims made in the popular press about the "digital native" generation as learners. Because students' lives today are saturated with digital media at a time when their brains are still developing, many popular press authors claim that this generation of students thinks and learns differently than any generation that has…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Land Grant Universities, College Freshmen, Student Attitudes
