Digital Natives

DigitalNatives

“If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.�

“Young people today have lots of experience … interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating [or] expressing themselves with new technologies. It’s almost as if they can read but not write.”

By the time they’re 2 years old, more than 90% of all American children have an online history.

At 5, more than 50% regularly interact with a computer or tablet device, and by 7 or 8, many kids regularly play video games.

Teenagers text an average of 3,400 times a month.

“Our new world of digital immersion and multitasking has affected virtually everything from our thought processes and work habits to our capacity for linear thinking and how we feel about ourselves, our friends and even strangers.�

“Kids often self-reveal before they reflect, and millions of kids say and do things they later regret. The permanence of what anyone posts online and the absence of an “eraser” button mean that the embarrassment and potential damage can last forever.”

The children of Generation Z, or the iGeneration, are thought to be the internet savvy kids of the 21st century, who spend most, if not all of their time, engrossed in technology. These children are constantly connected to their music, phones, Internet, etc. As a millennial of 1991, I remember most of my childhood being spent either outdoors or playing on my fabulous Nintendo 64. We didn’t even own a computer until I was 11. Being on the cusp of Gen Y and Z, I am easily associated with both