This week our research on Web 2.0 and its use by students (13-19 olds) was published by Kennisnet. This publication is based on a more substantial report, which utilises desk research and interviews with over hundred students to bring a more differentiated picture to the table regarding the discussion on the Net-Generation. Some popular beliefs and premises are critically analysed based on scientific evidence and empirical proof. For instance there is no hard evidence for younger people being better at multitasking than older people. One can even question the benefits of multitasking all together. Furthermore it is argued that younger people are not necessarily more information competent. They are better in handling ICT, but don’t show any head start in finding relevant source material and evaluating it on relevance, reliability and usefulness.

tagged with: learning, web 2.0

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Erik Hekman on 4 April 2009 at 17:17

This is a very nice publication. Going to use bits and pieces of it at NIOC 2009!

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