Digital Students and Social Software
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Diana Andone, Jon Dron, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
EdMedia + Innovate Learning, in Vancouver, Canada ISBN 978-1-880094-62-4 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC
Abstract
Recent years have seen a new generation of 'digital students' emerging in the developed world. Digital students are young adults who have grown up with digital technologies integrated as an everyday feature of their lives. Digital students use technology differently from previous generations of students, fluidly and often simultaneously using instant messengers, mobile phones, the Web, MP3 players, online games and more. A study performed in a UK university was designed to identify and evaluate the use of new technologies, especially of social software, by digital students. The study is part of a research project which is investigating how the development of the eLearning spaces might be informed by digital students' attitudes. It was the first step taken towards the development and evaluation of a new learning environment for digital students.
Citation
Andone, D. & Dron, J. (2007). Digital Students and Social Software. In C. Montgomerie & J. Seale (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2007--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 1718-1724). Vancouver, Canada: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved March 4, 2021 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/25603/.
© 2007 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
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