From the Academic Media Studio

One of the best podcasts on digital issues in education is Dan Cohen’s Digital Campus. Broadcasting from George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media, the latest edition discusses the currently hot concept of “digital natives,” the idea that today’s students (born in the late 1980s) are intuitively responsive to and comfortable with digital technology.

Technically creating such a podcast is relatively simple—any Cornell faculty member or department could go and do likewise. However, this podcast is distinguished by the thoughtful and timely commentary, and that can take a lot of time. Just gathering the guests and information could be a full time job for someone. Still, it’s projects like this that are bringing the sponsoring schools quite a lot of glory.

Resources:

Digital Natives

John Palfrey, et al. Born Digital Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives (Basic Books, 2008)

Siva Vaidhyanathan, “Youth & Technology Generational Myth: Not all young people are tech-savvy” The Chronicle of Higher Education (September 19, 2008)