The Life of a ‘Digital Native’

Corrin, L; Bennett, S; Lockyer, L

The Life of a ‘Digital Native’

Corrin, L Bennett, S Lockyer, L

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Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2011, 2011, pp. 2942 - 2951
Issue Date:: 2011

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dc.contributor.author	Corrin, L	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Bennett, S	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Lockyer, L https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1517-2342	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Bastiaens, T	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Ebner, M	en_US
dc.date	2011-06-27	en_US
dc.date.issued	2011	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2011, 2011, pp. 2942 - 2951	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-880094-89-1	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/120073
dc.description.abstract	There have been many claims about the characteristics of the new generation of ‘digital native’ students participating in higher education. The lack of empirical evidence upon which many of these early claims were based has been highlighted in a number of studies investigating students’ technology ownership. However, very few studies to date have explored in detail students’ day-to-day interactions with technology and the impact on their academic studies. In the current project multiple case studies were compiled to provide an in-depth exploration of technology use across university students’ everyday life and academic study contexts. This paper reports on one of these case studies as a profile of a ‘digital native’ student who, whilst considering themselves advanced users of technology, still demonstrated a wide variance in adoption and appropriation of technology challenging the notion of a homogeneous generation who share common technology-related characteristics.	en_US
dc.publisher	AACE	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2011	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology	en_US
dc.title	The Life of a ‘Digital Native’	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.location	Chesapeake, VA	en_US
utslib.location.activity	Lisbon, Portugal	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)/Graduate Research School
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - STEM Education Futures
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Abstract:

There have been many claims about the characteristics of the new generation of ‘digital native’ students participating in higher education. The lack of empirical evidence upon which many of these early claims were based has been highlighted in a number of studies investigating students’ technology ownership. However, very few studies to date have explored in detail students’ day-to-day interactions with technology and the impact on their academic studies. In the current project multiple case studies were compiled to provide an in-depth exploration of technology use across university students’ everyday life and academic study contexts. This paper reports on one of these case studies as a profile of a ‘digital native’ student who, whilst considering themselves advanced users of technology, still demonstrated a wide variance in adoption and appropriation of technology challenging the notion of a homogeneous generation who share common technology-related characteristics.

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