Net Gen Nonsense

While at CNIE in May, I had the pleasure of hearing Mark Bullen present on the (or lack of) empirical evidence to support the notion of netgen, digital natives, or millennial learners. Any idea is not complete until we consider its opposite. So, he has since set up a blog devoted to debunking the concept of netgen’s: Net Gen Nonsense. Mark also contributes to Teaching and Learning at BCIT blog.
I’m quite comfortable saying that our education systems needs to change, but as Mark notes, the reason for that change is likely not to be found in “changing learners”. Instead, in my eyes, we need to change education for two primary reasons: 1) the changed ways in which we can access, interact with, and create information, and 2) the changed ways in which we can access, interact with, and connect to each other.