According to Marc Prensky- who coined the terms digital native back in 2001
students today are all native speakers of the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet
For the last three decades, children in the first world have been growing up in an increasingly technological and digitalized environment: cell phones, PCs and DVD´s have given way to smartphones, laptops, tablets, I-pads, blueray and interactive video games, and most importantly, cyberspace and social networking. Digital natives develop new skills and capacities as they are raised in a technological society: in fact, Prensky claims digital natives “think and process information fundamentally differently”. Read more…
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William Uricchio suggests that “the future of social media is rooted in the past”. Social networking is a natural consequence of our human condition: Aristotle claimed more than 2000 years ago that man is by nature a social animal. Mankind has always sought new and more sophisticated ways to communicate. We witnessed the dawn of a digital era that will surpass everything we ever imagined in terms of information flow. Internet transformed our lifestyles and social behavior, as the physical world and the limitations implied do not exist in cyberspace. Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn allow us to meet our friends and reach and interact with almost anybody online: for the first time in history, a new boundless parallel world of communication lays open to discovery. What will the next step be?
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Podemos afirmar con Pierre Lévy que si deseamos tener algún futuro, la clave consiste en coordinar nuestras actuaciones (políticas, económicas, científicas) a escala mundial, basándonos en decisiones conjuntas, en el sentido común, el respeto mutuo. Si las nuevas tecnologías nos ayudan en el proceso facilitando el desarrollo de la inteligencia colectiva, bienvenidas sean.
“La web del futuro expresará la inteligencia colectiva de una humanidad mundializada e interconectada a traves del ciberespacio“ (Pierre Lévy,2003) Read more…
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