Net Generation

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The following resources are helpful to parents and teachers:

1. Book: Supporting Successful Transition from Primary to Secondary School by Tina Rae (2014)
2. Book: Book: Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv (2008)
3. Book: Digital Tools for Teaching: 30 E-tools for Collaborating, Creating, and Publishing across the Curriculum by Steve Johnson (2013)
4. DVD video: Canadian Popular Music in the '60's, '70's & '80's by EMI Music Canada (2012)
5. DVD video: Canada: A People's History produced by Mark Starowicz (2001).
6. Book: Fire in the Bones: Bill Mason and the Canadian Canoeing Tradition by James Raffan (1999)

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Net Generation

The Net Generation are people born between 1980 and 2000 who have been immersed in technology. Also known as Millennials, or the Millennial Generation and Generation Y.

"Are you 22 or younger? Have you ever had to help your parents with the computer? Then you belong to the Net Generation." {Riverdeep Today, 2000])

America currently contains about 88 million members of the Net Generation. These "N-Geners" are kids who have been manipulating mouses since an early age. While past generations made do with the telephone and television, today's generation has access to those devices and super-realistic video games, the Internet, e-mail, instant messaging, online communities, and videos and music that can be downloaded over a computer.

Mark Prensky coined the term "digital native" to describe Generation Y "K through college" students in 2001, explaining they "represent the first generations to grow up with this new technology."

In their 2007 book, authors Junco and Mastrodicasa rsearched and found that 97% of these students owned a computer, 94% owned a cell phone, and 56% owned an MP3 player.

In 2010, research was published in the Elon Journal of Undergraduate Research which claimed that students who used social media and decided to quit showed the same withdrawal symptoms of a drug addict who quit their stimulant. (Cabral, J. (2010). Is Generation Y Addicted to Social Media. The Elon Journal of Undergraduate Research in Communication, 2(1), 5-13.)

Web Resources

• Educating the Net Generation A collaborative project involving the University of Melbourne, the University of Wollongong, and Charles Sturt University.
• Meet The Millennials: 9 Things You Must Know When Talking To Us by Jeremy Brown on senseworldwide.com
• Cell Phone Etiquette:Rudeness and Cell Phonies

Books

• "Educating the Net Generation" 2005 by Diana G Oblinger (Author) , James L. Oblinger (Contributor) Read the book as a PDF.
• "Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation". 1998