Net generation students: agency and choice and the new technologies.
Based on research investigating English first-year university students, this paper examined the case made for a new generation of young learners often described as the Net Generation or Digital Natives in terms of agency and choice. Generational arguments set out a case that links young people's att...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 26; no. 5; pp. 344 - 357 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2010
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