1. The Net Generation

4. Identifying the Net-Gen Technologies Typewriters Telephone Memo’s TV Family Focus Technologies Video Games PC Email CD’s Individualist Technologies Web Cell Phones IM MP3’s Online communities Source: Educating the Net-Gen. Available online http://wwweducause.edu/educatingthenetgen Anything slow Negativity Red tape Hype Laziness Turning 50 Waste Technology Dislikes Public activism Latest technology Parents Freedom Multitasking Work-life balance Responsibility Work ethic Can-do attitude Respect for authority Family Community involvement Likes Hopeful Determined Independent Sceptical Optimistic Workaholic Command and control Self-sacrifice Attributes Millennials Latchkey generation Me generation Greatest generation Description 1982–1991 1965–1982 1946–1964 1900–1946 Birth Dates Net Generation Generation X Baby Boomers Matures

7. Characteristics of the Net Gen Fast response time Able to respond rapidly and expect responses in return Visual – Spatial Skills Perhaps because of their expertise with games they can integrate the virtual with the physical Inductive discovery Learn better through discovery than been told Ability to read visual images Intuitive visual communicators Attention Deployment Able to shift attention rapidly from one task to another Hypertext Minds Ability to leap around and gather information from multiple sources Source: Educating the Net-Gen. Available online http://wwweducause.edu/educatingthenetgen

8. Examples of their world Age of Empires Trailer

10. What makes games engaging? Motivation Problem Solving Collaboration Feedback Critical Thinking Fun

11. Social Online Environment Blogs - Blogspot Instant messaging – MSN, Yahoo Voice Over IP, Video conferencing Skype Pod casting Wikipedia – Free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit.