The Green Cup

Gord Hotchkiss had a piece this week at Search Engine Land that gave one of the better descriptions of the difference between digital immigrants and digital natives.

Gord is the CEO of a company that researches what happens when people use search engines, and why. He analyses behavior. In the link above he talks about the differences between his own thought process and those he sees in his teenage daughter, a digital native. It’s an insightful piece.

NPR ran an interesting piece this past week on multitasking.

We talk a lot in education about how exposure to digital media is changing the way kids learn. The whole “digital natives” (them) vs. “digital immigrants” (us) thing. So I thought the NPR piece was interesting because not only did it talk about the neurology behind multitasking, it put the growth of multitasking into an evolutionary framework…

You can listen to it.