Leaving the Land of Digital Natives

Autor/inn/en	Jimenez, Camilo; Corral, Will H.
Titel	Leaving the Land of Digital Natives
Quelle	In: Academic Questions, 25 (2012) 2, S.250-256 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-4852
DOI	10.1007/s12129-012-9290-y
Schlagwörter	Educational Change; Writing Skills; Research Skills; Computer Uses in Education; Editing; College Faculty; Teacher Attitudes; Internet; Computer Attitudes; Information Technology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Forschungsleistung; Computernutzung; Redaktion; Textbearbeitung; Fakultät; Lehrerverhalten; Informationstechnologie
Abstract	Camilo Jimenez taught writing and literature at the prestigious Universidad Javeriana in Columbia for nine years until his resignation in December 2011, for reasons explained in this article. Having found that only three out of thirty of his students in his "Assessment of Non-Fiction Texts" course could successfully summarize a work in one paragraph with proper accents, submit it on time, and use a limited number of words that varied from one exercise to another, Jimenez became convinced that "curiosity vanished from those twenty-something students of mine from the moment that Dr. Google began to answer everything immediately, right away." He states his belief that these "digital natives" have lost the ability to concentrate, to be introspective, quiet... the ability to be alone. He made the decision to leave teaching because he felt he could no longer communicate with these digital natives. He did not understand their new interests, and did not believe he had found a way to show them what he considered essential to the craft of editing. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10