ABSTRACT

An especially interesting notion lies in the theory of digital natives, proposed a decade ago by several writers. But it was Marc Prensky who made a deep impression on contemporary educational thought with statements such as ‘today’s students think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors’ (2001, p. 1). This effect is attributed to their having grown up in the context of the digital age with access to computers and the raft of other electronic devices. According to Prensky, ‘Our students, as digital natives, will continue to evolve and change so rapidly that we won’t be able to keep up’ (2006, p. 9), together with, ‘Our young people generally have a much better idea of what the future is bringing than we do’ (2006, p. 10).