Kids are the “experts”in the
Information Age

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Parents feel threatened by new technologies

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Tendency is to turn it all over to kids

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Don Tapscott’s perspective on N-Gen

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“idea of a ‘naturally’computer literate child
is more of a social construct than an
empirical reality”(Healy, Failure to Connect, p. 21)

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Main distinction: lack of fear