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  2. Marc Prensky - Wikipedia

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    Marc Prensky (born March 15, 1946, New York City, United States) is an American writer and speaker on education.He is best known as the creator of the terms "digital native" and "digital immigrant" [1] which he described in a 2001 article in On the Horizon.

  3. Digital native - Wikipedia

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    Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Marc Prensky defines the term "digital native" and applies it to a new group of students enrolling in educational establishments referring to the young generation as "native speakers" of the digital language of computers, videos, video games, social media and other sites on the internet.

  4. Digital Visitor and Resident - Wikipedia

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    Marc Prensky's notions of digital natives and digital immigrants [3] has had a lasting influence on how educational institutions perceive students and technology. However, Prensky's model has been challenged by other researchers who have debated its parameters. One of these new models is the V&R project. [2]

  5. Digital divide - Wikipedia

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    The age gap contributes to the digital divide due to the fact that people born before 1983 did not grow up with the internet. According to Marc Prensky, people who fall into this age range are classified as "digital immigrants." [86] A digital immigrant is defined as "a person born or brought up before the widespread use of digital technology."

  6. Digital literacy - Wikipedia

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    Marc Prensky invented and popularized the terms digital natives and digital immigrants. A digital native is an individual born into the digital age who has used and applied digital skills from a young age, [ 61 ] whereas 'digital immigrant' refers to an individual who adopts technology later in life.

  7. Millennials - Wikipedia

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    [104] Educational psychologist Elza Venter believes Millennials are "digital natives" because they have grown up experiencing digital technology and have known it all their lives (see § Use of digital technology, below). Marc Prensky created the concept of digital natives in response to the understanding that the members of the generation were ...

  8. Digital Natives - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 9 October 2007, at 04:33 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

  9. Social networking service - Wikipedia

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    For a number of years, Prensky's (2001) dichotomy between Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants has been considered a relatively accurate representation of the ease with which people of a certain age range—in particular those born before and after 1980—use technology. Prensky's theory has been largely disproved, however, and not least on ...