Tom Goodwin's List: Natives-Immigrants

• Sophisticated yet managable. Siemans makes a number of good points that suggest Prensky's analogy is good for hype but nothing more. - Tom Goodwin on 2008-07-10

• Words such as “creativity”, “technology” and “progress” enfold into a  streamlined vision of “the future”, where everyone is online, sharing, editing,  building and facilitating.
• To fetishise tools and platforms is to ignore why citizens are drawn to formal  education. Students do not enter schools and universities to change a wiki. They  want to change their lives.
• confusing “the new” with “the effective”?
• Sue Bennett, Karl Maton and Lisa Kervin and published in The British Journal  of Educational Technology. These scholars saw the “digital native”  discussion as a form of “moral panic”, one of many that have encircled “youth”.

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• We do a lot of work on the assumption that the wider use of ‘e-learning’ or  ‘learning technology’ is necessarily a good thing. This of course needs some  explication and justification
• • produce and store quality content (text, images, audio, video, diagrams,  databases etc), with consideration of its presentation online;  
  • share content online, in an appropriate location and with appropriate  security constraints (considering legal, moral and inter-personal issues);  
  • where responsible, maintain, update and remove content;  
  • structure the relations between content items;  
  • classify and describe content to make it more meaningful and useful;  
  • locate, assess and use shared content;  
  • edit and extend, comment upon, filter, and recommend to others;  
  • record and reflect upon their own work and that of others as represented by  their online activities;  
  • create,define and manage networks of other online people;  
  • build up an electronic portfolio and profile;  
  • present samples of online work;  
  • reflect upon this work, in collaboration with others, so as to identify  strengths, weaknesses, and actions for improvement (informally, or formally as  peer review).