Post Axlt3f9L1nZ0xSXJ3Y by Linkshaender@bildung.social
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 (DIR) Post #Axlngt3ydG6Ng9LhGC by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-09-01T18:04:56Z
       
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       I don't get the brag "digital native", referring to people who grew up with the Internet (usually specifically) all their lives.What's so good about that? How can you know how good it is, if you know no other world? Or if it's any good at all? It's "America (etc) is the best country" without having lived anywhere else.
       
 (DIR) Post #Axlo8qoKbFtonlMgc4 by HeNeArXn@chaos.social
       2025-09-01T18:09:57Z
       
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       @tomjennings I don't think I'd have read that label as a "brag". I'd say it was more a misguided expectation being imposed.
       
 (DIR) Post #Axlq0qLGeu0mwJ51oO by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2025-09-01T18:30:52.125207Z
       
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       @tomjennings Reminds me that so far I've mostly heard "Digital Native" in a good light from people who are borderline scared of computers in general.Except 90's kids don't know how to use computers either and so can also end up in the borderline scared of computer category too.
       
 (DIR) Post #Axlt3f9L1nZ0xSXJ3Y by Linkshaender@bildung.social
       2025-09-01T19:05:02Z
       
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       @tomjennings That’s one of my pet peeves: everyone uses that term, but far too few actually bothered to read Prensky‘s paper.https://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf
       
 (DIR) Post #AxltS2d1O07Kj52qbQ by LoneLocust@mastodon.social
       2025-09-01T19:09:27Z
       
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       @tomjennings I’ve always assumed that they are implying that they’re competent with technology; however, having oversee the department that does tech-support for business I can safely say that “digital natives” can be just as incompetent as old folk.
       
 (DIR) Post #Axlth6bCuBdHNvNaRk by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-09-01T19:12:12Z
       
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       @Linkshaender For a paper that old, there's a lot of good in there, and it doesn't do the simplistic-take thing so common. I'd not seem that paper before.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxluNV5CGX8JTxce36 by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-09-01T19:19:51Z
       
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       @HeNeArXn Yeah, related to what @lanodan said... but I heard it a lot, self-applied, around grad students. But maybe it was uttered with the fear you imply, fear of not being up to the task. There was a lot of that.
       
 (DIR) Post #Axlvhu0ZP46uX5kae0 by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-09-01T19:34:45Z
       
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       @LoneLocust It's more about insecurity I think than anything else.
       
 (DIR) Post #Axlys8yotR83j1VUcS by Linkshaender@bildung.social
       2025-09-01T20:10:12Z
       
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       @tomjennings Well, that paper actually *is the origin* of the phrase "digital native"! And as Prensky explains it does mean sth completely different than what most people associate with that phrase.
       
 (DIR) Post #Axm4JG499hOlI7kNCy by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-09-01T21:11:09Z
       
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       @Linkshaender Ahh I was wondering about that (coinage)!