(If you’re landing on the individual post page directly, this is an abstract for a conference/professional development presentation. See the speaking page for more details.)

The education industry, at all levels, has been inundated with the “net generation” and “digital native” rhetoric for more than a decade.  An uncountable number of conference presentations, technology initiatives, curricular changes and innovations, and faculty development projects have started with the assumption that we, as educators, are faced with a college learner of today that is radically different from the college learner of years past.  They’re just different.  Why?  Only one reason: they’ve been surrounded by ubiquitous technology their entire lives.  You’ve seen *that* presentation introduction 100x over… How many hours they surf the internet, play games, listen to music, text on their phones… blah blah blah blah. More >