Understanding the Digital Generation: Teaching and Learning in the New Digital Landscape

Today's world is different for our children-vastly different from the one we grew up in. The technologies we take for granted or simply don't understand have become an integral part of our children's identities. These technologies saturate practically every aspect of their daily lives. This digital bombardment is shaping who they are and who they will become. We must realize they live in a different world and speak a different language.

This book explores the fundamental characteristics of the children in this new digital generation, and how our educational procedures can be modified to enhance their experiences of learning while supporting traditional literacy in tandem with the essential new 21st century fluencies. You will gain a clear picture of the dramatically different way the digital generation thinks, learns, views our world, and interacts as we follow them through this vast digital landscape.

If we ever want to take a part in nurturing those will be the architects of our future, it's up to us to learn their language and step into their world so that we may truly understand the digital generation.