Double Entry Journal 10

    1.       “A striking feature of Net Generation and digital native discourses is a particular understanding of the relationship between technologies and change.”

    2.       “Moral panic is a term that has arisen to describe conditions in which an identified group in society is portrayed as a threat to social values and norms.”

Moral Panic

    3.       I would like to engage in more collaborative learning because I like to involve texting and use of the Internet in education.

    4.       I think Universities should move to a more free-market based privatization business model because, if students could choose from the world’s best professors and gather their own program of study from the Internet, that would be a great opportunity for the students.

    5.       According to the author, Prensky’s revised position is deterministic. He also says that “while Prensky has softened the edges of the immigrant-native divide, he retains a deterministic argument that relies on a technology driven imperative for educational change.”

    6.       “Millennials are simply a recent outcrop of a long historical process and the fusion of the idea of the Net Generation with the idea of Millennials in the work of Oblinger and Oblinger can be seen as cementing this cyclical generational view into the idea of a Net Generation in education.” I do not believe that I am a Millenial.

    7.       I believe that Net Generation is real because “studies suggest that while age is a factor there is no single Net Generation or digital native group and that first-year university students show a diversity that is inconsistent with a generational hypothesis.

    8.       “The term ‘networked individualism’ suggests a move away from place-to-place interaction towards interactions that are person-to –person in character.”

    9.       I would encourage the use of Gmail and Google tools rather than Blackboard and Webmail at Fairmont State because I have heard many complaints about Blackboard and Webmail, and I have also used Gmail and Google tools, and they are much less confusing; they are easier to use.

   10.   “The approaches point towards potentially significant age-related changes in the activities of young people who have grown up in environments that are heavily interpenetrated by digital and networked technologies.”

   11.   There is an argument that “there is a sharp generational break between a group of young people who are immersed in new technologies, and older generational groups who are less familiar with technology. It has persisted despite repeated reports of empirical work that undermine the basic case.”

   12.   In my opinion, the first argument needs to be discarded and the second needs to be further explored because the second requires social engagement, and I think that is significant.