What is Digital Native

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One who has grown up with advanced technology, knows the terrain of an interconnected, globalized world, and moves about it comfortably. Learn more in: Using Technology to Reintegrate Learning and Doing: IBM's Approach and its Implications for Education

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A term coined by Marc Prensky. It is applied to the individuals who have grown up immersed in technology. Learn more in: Game Design as a Compelling Experience

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People who were born in the digital world and thus are “native” to the digital languages of computers, video games, and the internet. Learn more in: Creating Geospatial Thinkers

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The concept of digital native was firstly used in his article “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” by Marc Prensky in 2001. It tells the people who were born after the digitalization process. Learn more in: Digital Media Literacy: In-Depth Interview With the Parents of the Students Who Use Digital Media

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A person who has grown up in an era of digital technology, such as computers and the Internet. Learn more in: Culturally-Sensitive E-Learning Practices for Career and Technical Education

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The term used by Prensky for a person born and brought up with digital technologies. Learn more in: Crossing the Digital Divide: Metacognition for Learning in the Digital Age

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In its original sense, a digital native is a person who has grown up after the widespread introduction of the personal computer and therefore been immersed in digital technology. It is claimed that by virtue of this exposure digital natives think, behave and learn differently to older generations. More recently the term has been redefined by some to refer to a person of any age who is highly adept with technology. Learn more in: Digital Natives

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The generation that was born after 1980 and has grown with digital communication technologies. Learn more in: Digital Literacy in the World of Digital Natives

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A person who has been familiar with computers, the Internet, and other digital technology from a very young age. Learn more in: The Role of Leadership and Communication: Challenges Reconceptualizing Graduate Instruction

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A person who has interacted with digital technology for most of his or her life. Learn more in: Digital Literacy in Theory and Practice

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A person who grew up in the era of technology and consider computers and internet an essential part of his/her life. Learn more in: Multilingual Writing in Digital World: The Necessity for Reshaping Teaching

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A person who has grown up with the technology being used and has never experienced a time when that technology did not exist. Learn more in: Using Mobile Technology for Formative Assessment in the Classroom

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An individual who has grown up with technology and feels highly comfortable adapting to technology. Learn more in: Using Technology in Providing Effective Training

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A person who has been familiar with computers, the Internet, and other digital technology from a very young age. Learn more in: The Role of Leadership and Communication: Re-Conceptualizing Graduate Instruction Online

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The term ‘digital native’ applies it to a new group of students enrolling in educational establishments referring to the young generation as ‘native speakers’ of the digital language of computers, videos, video games, social media and other sites on the Internet. That is, those born into societies in which information technology permeates all aspects of everyday life, thus influencing socialisation patterns. The reception and application of digital information is often second-nature to digital natives. Learn more in: Native or Novice?: An Exploratory Study of the Access to and Use of Digital Technologies among Pathway Students

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Is a person who is growing up, or has grown up with digital technology. Learn more in: Digital Natives, Learner Perceptions and the Use of ICT

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a person who grew up with digital technology Learn more in: The Digital Divide among the Incarcerated Women in the United States: A Case Study from New Jersey

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A person born into or grew up in the era of digital technologies. Learn more in: Digital Technologies: Way Forward for Nigerian Languages Literacy

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Describes individuals that meets technology by birth. Digital natives are a very important mass in our age. Learn more in: Eleven Eleven VR: Virtual Reality, Digital Narrative, and Interaction

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An individual that has been born in the age of technology. Learn more in: The Impact of Technology on the Teaching and Learning Process

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A post-millennial term describing individuals who are part of the digital age from birth. Learn more in: Digital Literacy

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Digital natives, people born after 1980, are characterized as having access to networked digital technologies and the skills to use those technologies since birth. Major parts of their lives and daily activities are mediated by digital technologies including social interaction, friendships, civic activities, and hobbies. Learn more in: Critical Thinking Skills in Virtual Learning Environments

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A person born in the digital era. Learn more in: Writing in the Digital Age: Teaching Writing to Digital Natives

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Persons born between the late 1970’s/ early 1990’s known also as the Net Generation, Millennial Generation, or Generation Y, but can also include people born in the late 1990’s/early 2000’s known as Generation Z, and is proficient in ICT and many different forms of technology. Learn more in: Adult Learning in a Digital Age: Effective Use of Technologies for Adult Learners

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Coined by Mark Prensky in 2001, the new generations characteristic of being immersed in the web-based technologies. Learn more in: From Chat Therapy to Virtual Reality (VR): The Case of Idego – Digital Psychology

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A new technology-savvy generation. Learn more in: ICT and Knowledge Deficiency

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A person who is indigenous to the digital world, has grown up with and uses a wide variety of available and continually evolving technology with an inborn, instinctive sense of how to communicate, record, understand and share in society. Learn more in: Making It for the Screen: Creating Digital Media Literacy

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a person who was born after the general implementation of digital technology, and, as a result, has a familiarity with digital technology such as computers, the Internet, mobile phones and MP3s over their whole lives. Learn more in: Designing and Developing the Virtual English Adventure in Second Life

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Somebody who did not experience life before the Internet. Prensky (2001) uses the term to describe the first generation that grew up with the Internet as a part of their childhood, which is the sense of the word used in this article. People not accustomed to computers and the Internet from childhood are consequently digital immigrants Learn more in: Young People's Net Cultures

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A term coined by Marc Presnsky in 2001 in the article “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” to describe a person who is born and grows up in the digital epoch. Learn more in: Communication Matters: Upgrading the Communicative Approach to ESP Through Smartphones

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Individuals, born after 1980, who grew up immersed in technology and as a result possess a high level of confidence and familiarity when using technology ( Prensky, 2001a ) Learn more in: Individual Differences, Learning Opportunities and Learning Outcomes, Digital Equity: Bridging the Gap – Creating Learning Opportunities for All Students

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In its original sense, a digital native is a person who has grown up after the widespread introduction of the personal computer and therefore been immersed in digital technology. It is claimed that by virtue of this exposure digital natives think, behave and learn differently to older generations. More recently the term has been redefined by some to refer to a person of any age who is highly adept with technology. Learn more in: From Digital Natives to Student Experiences With Technology

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A person who was born into, and grown up amongst, a society with widespread accessibility of digital technology. Learn more in: Digital Forensic Investigation of the Xiyu Pagoda Lighthouse

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A term that speaks to a person born or brought up during the age of digital technology and is therefore familiar with and more apt to be fluent in computers usage and the Internet from an early age. Learn more in: Inverted Constructivism to Leverage Mobile-Technology-Based Active Learning

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The first generation to grow up surrounded by/immersed in digital technology. Learn more in: “Just Don't Get Too Personal”: Millennial Students' Perceptions of Transformative Teaching

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A person born or brought up during or into the age of digital technology. Learn more in: Are We Part of the Problem?: Teacher Preparation Programs, Educational Technology, and the Mis-Education of Future Teachers

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A popular term originally coined by Marc Prensky (2001) that refers to an individual who possess exceptional familiarity with technology tools as a result of being born after web-based, digital media, and computing technologies became widely established. Learn more in: Learning to Teach the Media: Pre-Service Teachers Articulate the Value of Media Literacy Education

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People who have always known technology as a part of their everyday lives. Learn more in: Using Technology to Build Interactions Within and Beyond the Literacy Classroom

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A person who has interacted with digital technology for most of his or her life. Learn more in: Digital Literacy

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A term coined by Prensky (2001) which refers to a person born or brought up during the age of digital technology and therefore familiar with digital technology, including computers and the Internet, from an early age. Learn more in: The Digital Journey: Integrating Technology into Teaching and Learning

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A person born into the digital age (after 1980) who has access to networked digital technologies and strong computer skills and knowledge. Digital natives share a common global culture that is defined not strictly by age but by certain attributes and experiences related to how they interact with information technologies, information itself, one another, and other people and institutions ( Palfrey & Gasser, 2008 , p. 346). Learn more in: Influences on the Acceptance of Innovative Technologies Used in Learning Opportunities: A Theoretical Perspective

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An individual who was born after the broad adoption of digital technology and grew up with them. Learn more in: Human Attitude Towards the Use of IT in Education: Academy and Social Media

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The generation of people who has the ability to process technological information naturally as they were born into the era of technology. Learn more in: Creative Digital Writing: A Multilingual Perspective

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Term, credited to Marc Prensky, that describes a generation of students born into the digital age, who are much more adept at using ICT than their counterparts from prior generations, showing signs or traits never before seen. These students are also commonly called the Net Generation (Tapscott, 1998), the Millennial Generation (Howe & Strauss, 2000) and Generation M (Roberts, Foehr, & Rideout, 2005). Learn more in: Digital Propensity: An Investigation of Video Game and Information and Communication Technology Practices

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Term coined by media theorist Prensky (2001) which posits that children growing up in the 21st Century are more naturally adept at using and appreciating the potential of digital media—akin to how the children of immigrants to the U.S. have proven far more able in assimilating to and advancing the American language and culture. Learn more in: Do-It-Yourself Media in U.S. Education: A Brief Overview of an Uneasy Relationship

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A term coined by Marc Prensky (2001) to describe individuals born into a world with the Internet and digital technologies and therefore innately fluent with these tools. Learn more in: Innovations in Mobile Photography for Digital-Age Teachers and Learners

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Identified as people who are early adopters or who are adept at using technology because of easy access to technology. Learn more in: TAM + ARCS = SNT Framework for Higher Education