There's a slight confusion in this thread, that many are rightfully pointing out, as there's a bit of context missing in the article. The thing is, the term 'd

There's a slight confusion in this thread, that many are rightfully pointing out, as there's a bit of context missing in the article. The thing is, the term 'digital native' has been heavily used as a way of saying that children that grew up surrounded by tablets and TVs and the internet actually learn differently from the so-called digital immigrants. For an example, see these quotes by Marc Prensky cited in the literature thousands of times: ‘today’s students think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors’ [1] ‘Our students, as digital natives, will continue to evolve and change so rapidly that we won’t be able to keep up’ [2] ‘Our young people generally have a much better idea of what the future is bringing than we do’ [2] ‘In fact they are so different from us that we can no longer use either our twentieth century knowledge or training as a guide to what is best for them educationally’ [2] Now this might immediately sound extremely suspicious for anyone who has some background on the research of how humans learn, but it's a common myth all over the learning world. 'Oh I can't learn from books, I need interactive videos and apps, that's why I have bad grades.' Actually computers are an excellent choice for learning if applied correctly, but this is not what is usually being implied in these situations. There's a big confusion between how much children are familiar with using technology from a consumer's point of view, and the natural human ability to learn. The latter hasn't changed. The debunking of 'digital natives' is not new either [3]. By the way, for anyone interested, I recommend Hattie and Yates' book on learning [4] as a great, very balanced, modern introduction. [1] (cited 18000 times!) Prensky, Marc. "Digital natives, digital immigrants part 1." On the horizon 9.5 (2001): 1-6. [2] (cited 1000 times) Prensky, Marc. "Listen to the natives." Educational leadership 63.4 (2005). [3] (cited 2700 times) Bennett, Sue, Karl Maton, and Lisa Kervin. "The ‘digital natives’ debate: A critical review of the evidence." British journal of educational technology 39.5 (2008): 775-786. [4] Hattie, John, and Gregory CR Yates. Visible learning and the science of how we learn. Routledge, 2013.