Learning In a Participatory Culture: Debunking the Myth of Digital Natives

Anna van Someren Comparative Media Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology projectNML connect communicate create collaborate project new media literacies: education in a participatory culture

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is someone like jessica a “digital native”?

“digital natives vs. digital immigrants” tive? n a a problematic metaphor

“digital natives vs. digital immigrants” n t? ig ra tive? m n a im a problematic metaphor

“digital natives vs. digital immigrants” erases differences between experiences

“digital natives vs. digital immigrants” overemphasizes & isolates digital technology

“digital natives vs. digital immigrants” ignores connection between youth and adults

“digital natives vs. digital immigrants” devalues what adults bring

our view: three core challenges “Increasingly, children and young people are divided into those for whom the internet is an increasingly rich, diverse, engaging and stimulating resource of growing importance in their lives and those for whom it remains a narrow, unengaging, if occasionally useful, resource of rather less signiﬁcance.” - Sonia Livingstone, 2005 the participation gap

our view: three core challenges ≠ the participation gap

our view: three core challenges the transparency problem

our view: three core challenges the ethics challenge

multitasking: the ability to scan one’s environment, shifting focus as needed to salient details

play: the capacity to experiment with your surroundings as a form of problem-solving

appropriation: the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content

networking: the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information

collective intelligence: the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal

performance: the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery

circulations: the ability to shape the ﬂow of media

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