Required Reading: "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants"

"It is amazing to me how in all the hoopla and debate these days about the decline of education in the US we ignore the most fundamental of its causes. Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach." - Marc Prensky

The phrases "Digital immigrants" and "Digital Natives" have used a great deal in the recent past to explain the generational gap between those of us whose formative experiences were in the pre-internet era and those of us who cannot concieve of a world without Google or Facebook. (The latter group is also referred as "millenials" indicating that they came of age after the turn of the 21st century.)

While there is a book entitled Digital natives, Digital immigrants, a quicker introduction is Marc Prensky's seminal essay on the topic. it can be accessed here.