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What is Actualized Generation

Chapter 6
Handbook of Research on Practices and Outcomes in E-Learning: Issues and Trends
A concept developed by Karl Mannheim to designate the actual existence of an identifiable generation for any given generational location. To become actualized, a generation must meet three criteria: (1) shared experiences, (2) the experiences occurred at the same developmental stage (age), and (3) mutually and meaningfully interpreted by the members of the generation that shared the experience.
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The Digital Generation and Web 2.0: E-Learning Concern or Media Myth?
Robin M. Roberts (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-788-1.ch006
Abstract
The relationship between the Digital or Millennium Generation and Web 2.0 is investigated focusing on how post-secondary students just entering American colleges and universities use the interactive or read-write web popularly known as “Web 2.0” and what implications their use of those web sites has for E-learning. Central to the investigation is addressing the question of whether the Digital Generation and Web 2.0 concepts describe actual realities or exist merely as popular media constructions. The basic thrust of the chapter will be the position that the Digital Generation does not function as a monolithic group, but that the use of Web 2.0 technologies is related to developmental stages and life situation.
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