Comments on: Of Digital Immigrants, Power Browsing and Bouncing Out http://www.openeducation.net/2008/07/14/of-digital-immigrants-power-browsing-and-bouncing-out/ Free Education for All Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:29:29 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Liz Jett http://www.openeducation.net/2008/07/14/of-digital-immigrants-power-browsing-and-bouncing-out/comment-page-1/#comment-7935 Liz Jett Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:22:12 +0000 http://www.openeducation.net/?p=267#comment-7935 The notion of power browsing is intriguing. As someone who nearly straddles the digital native and digital immigrant generations, I wonder if this is truly a new behavior. Obviously, the technology (the Internet) is newer. However, in my school years I clearly remember "browsing" through textbooks and other text materials for essential words or phrases, and mentally discarding the rest. I rarely bothered to read entire chapters or books. For the digital natives, search engines merely make this task a little easier and quicker, and more observable. I also question where student "hyperactivity" fits into all this. Do technology devices make students more hyper? Are they no longer engaged by lectures and textbooks? Or is hyperactivity simply an observation of a digital native made by a digital immigrant? The notion of power browsing is intriguing. As someone who nearly straddles the digital native and digital immigrant generations, I wonder if this is truly a new behavior. Obviously, the technology (the Internet) is newer. However, in my school years I clearly remember “browsing” through textbooks and other text materials for essential words or phrases, and mentally discarding the rest. I rarely bothered to read entire chapters or books. For the digital natives, search engines merely make this task a little easier and quicker, and more observable.

I also question where student “hyperactivity” fits into all this. Do technology devices make students more hyper? Are they no longer engaged by lectures and textbooks? Or is hyperactivity simply an observation of a digital native made by a digital immigrant?

]]> By: Of Digital Immigrants, Power Browsing and Bouncing Out http://www.openeducation.net/2008/07/14/of-digital-immigrants-power-browsing-and-bouncing-out/comment-page-1/#comment-1344 Of Digital Immigrants, Power Browsing and Bouncing Out Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:32:03 +0000 http://www.openeducation.net/?p=267#comment-1344 [...] openeducation.net wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt Over at the U.K. Times online one will find Catherine O’Brien’s exemplary “How the Google generation thinks differently.” The article should be mandatory reading for every parent and educator - for that matter anyone who works with today’s internet generation. A Digital Native’s Learning Style The writer notes that she totally misjudged how her son was learning. In fact, her description of her elder son Oli, nearly 15 is a thing of beauty. First, O’Brien acknowledges that Oli is “way beyon [...] [...] openeducation.net wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt Over at the U.K. Times online one will find Catherine O’Brien’s exemplary “How the Google generation thinks differently.” The article should be mandatory reading for every parent and educator – for that matter anyone who works with today’s internet generation. A Digital Native’s Learning Style The writer notes that she totally misjudged how her son was learning. In fact, her description of her elder son Oli, nearly 15 is a thing of beauty. First, O’Brien acknowledges that Oli is “way beyon [...]

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