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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

The term was coined by author Marc Prensky to describe a person who grew up surrounded by technology and is familiar with the Internet from an early age on. Hillary Scharton writes that children aren’t born knowing technology, and that the belief that digital natives excel at multitasking can be detrimental to their learning.