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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Digital Natives"”.
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Digital Immigrants Teaching Digital Natives : A Phenomenological Study of Higher Education Faculty Perspectives on Technology Integration with English Core Content
… for thinking critically about how to use digital advances.
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Political Content And Political Behavior: Using Functional Theory To Test The Ability Of Political Content To Stimulate Political Interest
… of the American democracy is up for debate. Digital natives will decide the future of this democracy. Fewer digital natives--those who have grown up with Internet access--are engaging in formal political participation, compared to their parents. Digital natives lack the information needed to …
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Exploring undergraduate interactions with mobile privacy and security
Many studies have proven that digital natives are not as tech-savvy as previously thought, and possibly vulnerable in terms of privacy and security. My focus was to characterise how this generation interacted with mobile privacy and security. We provide evidence from a cohort of South African …
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Confronting digital folk pedagogies in Missouri educator preparation programs
… (EPPs) has not kept pace with the increasing digital demands of K-12 schools. A lack of state-wide educational technology competencies has resulted in curricular and instructional inconsistency among EPPs in Missouri, and inaccurate assumptions about young people, often labeled as digital …
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Gozitan school leaders' interpretations of the school and social media : a crossroad for transition or transformation?
… formalising new ways on how to best embrace digital technologies and accompanying mediated practices, yet, a form of school leadership that facilitates the meaningful adoption of technology by teachers in formal educational contexts is important. While digital natives may have not come of age …
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Am I My Brother’s Keeper? : Local and Global Responsibility in the Digital Age
… than at any previous time in history. The digital age connects people from around the globe, fostering greater awareness about global issues and creating personal connections, which builds understanding and empathy. Traditionally, domestic responsibility has centered on civic engagement, …
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Effective Use of Digital Technologies of High School Teachers as Digital Immigrants in Six Rural Public Schools
… use of technology in K-12 schools between “digital immigrants” and “digital natives” (Prensky, 2001) is becoming more evident as digital natives become classroom teachers and showcase pedagogical strategies with digital technologies. There is a dearth of research on digital immigrants who …
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Between Fantasy & Reality: Ludonarrative Dissonance and Black Affect in the Present
… to video games. Drawing upon literary texts, digital archives, video games, play studies and phenomenology, it asks: What are the fundamental ways around which black social life is structured in the early 21st Century? I assert that video games—most of which are Japanese in origin—are the most …
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A framework for using social media in the practice of project management.
… of three zones. This research examined how digital natives, whose experience of using social media pre-dates their experience of project management, use social media to manage projects. An abductive approach involving a series of unstructured interviews was used to uncover perceptions of the …
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How Millennials Engage in Social Media Activism: A Uses and Gratifications Approach
Millennials are the world's digital natives and its largest generation. A general perception of this generation is that they lack engagement in social-political issues. This study explores how Millennials are engaging in social media activism and whether online activism is driving offline activism …
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2010 A Digital Odyssey: Exploring Document Camera Technology and Computer Self-Efficacy in a Digital Era
… the sphere of education, navigating throughout a digital world has become a matter of necessity for the developing professional, as with the advent of Document Camera Technology (DCT). This study explores the pedagogical implications of implementing DCT; to see if there is a relationship between …
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Gamification: Game-based Learning / Serious Games and 21st Century Soft Skill Development in Nursing Education
… on the development of 21st century skills in digital natives. The focus was on the historical literature related to gamification, GBL, and serious games at institutions of higher education in nursing education to identify and analysis occurrences of 21st century skill development in historical …
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From Driven Clinical Nurses to Influential Nurse Leaders: A Phenomenological Study of Millennial Nurse Leaders' Experiences in Acute Care Settings
… as the first generation who were raised as digital natives. Their socio-historical experiences have shaped millennials’ values, beliefs, and perceptions. Millennial-aged nurses are moving into nursing leadership roles as nurses of the baby boomer generation retire. The COVID-19 pandemic …
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Student engagement in game-based learning : a literature review
Today’s teens are digital natives: 87% of them have a desktop or laptop (Lenhart et al., 2015). Modern education is shifting from using traditional teacher-centered methods toward employing student-centered strategies. Game-based learning is not a new concept and has been adopted in both private …
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Assessing learning outcomes and social capital formation resulting from the use and sharing of internet knowledge resources
Today's "digital natives" use the Internet to address most, if not all, their learning-related knowledge needs. This research evaluates the outcomes of formal learning activities requiring students to use, manage, share, and consolidate Internet knowledge resources (such as websites, videos, and …
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Gen Z expectations’ influence on organisational culture change through onboarding and retention
… has been interrupted by the integration of digital evolution and the need to save the environment and people. Thus, organisations must adapt to these interruptions to remain competitive in the work environment by employing the right skills and talent. Amidst the digital evolution and these …
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Journalist or influencer? Exploring young public media journalists' perceptions of individual branding on Twitter
… Twitter profiles. To better understand how these digital natives and young entrants into the work force are negotiating between traditional journalistic values and Twitter logic, semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted with 16 participants. The research questions were guided by market …
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Unemployed Younger Baby Boom Women's Career Decision-Making Experiences: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
… as a preparation period; career aspirations; digital natives; age discrimination; bioecological systems influence; generativity vs. stagnation; identity expressed in career decision making; and influence of intuition, chance, and personal factors. The findings suggest that the women used the …
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Public mirror: legitimizing 'social' photography as a contemporary discipline
… the Internet, there seems to be nothing new for 'digital natives’ to discover other than the elusive Self. The Self is the 'new frontier’ and the smartphone camera is at the forefront of this quest, unearthing and exhibiting different kinds of content everyday. With over 95 million photographs and …
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