Net generation or Digital Natives: Is there a distinct new generation entering university?
Net generation or Digital Natives: Is there a distinct new generation entering university?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.compedu.2009.09.022
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发表时间：
2010-04-01
影响因子：
12
通讯作者：
Healing, Graham
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作者：
Jones, Chris;Ramanau, Ruslan;Healing, Graham
本文报道了一个研究项目的第一阶段的主要结果，该项目调查了英国五所大学的网络时代学生。我们采取批判性的观点，一个独特的一代，已被描述使用各种术语，包括净一代和数字原住民的想法，并探讨与年龄相关的差异之间的第一年的大学生。本文借鉴的证据，从一年的本科生学习一系列的纯和应用学科的调查。总的来说，我们发现一年级学生的情况很复杂，样本人口似乎是少数民族的集合。其中包括很少使用某些技术的少数群体和大量使用新技术的少数群体。通常，新技术的使用方式并不完全符合网络一代和数字原住民论文所提出的期望。文章的结论是，虽然有很强的年龄相关的样本之间的变化，这是远远简单化描述1983年以后出生的年轻的一年级学生作为一个单一的一代。作者发现，这一代人在使用和欣赏新技术方面并不同质，在净一代年龄段的学生中存在显着差异。(C)2009爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
This article reports key findings from the first phase of a research project investigating Net generation age students as they encounter e-learning at five universities in England. We take a critical view of the idea of a distinct generation which has been described using various terms including Net generation and Digital Natives and explore age related differences amongst first year university students. The article draws on evidence from a survey of first year undergraduates studying a range of pure and applied subjects. Overall we found a complex picture amongst first-year students with the sample population appearing to be a collection of minorities. These included a small minority that made little use of some technologies and larger minorities that made extensive use of new technologies. Often the use of new technology was in ways that did not fully correspond with the expectations that arise from the Net generation and Digital Natives theses. The article concludes that whilst there are strong age related variations amongst the sample it is far to simplistic to describe young first-year students born after 1983 as a single generation. The authors find that the generation is not homogenous in its use and appreciation of new technologies and that there are significant variations amongst students that lie within the Net generation age band. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.