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ERIC Number: EJ984430
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Jun
Pages: 7
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0895-4852
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Leaving the Land of Digital Natives
Jimenez, Camilo; Corral, Will H.
Academic Questions, v25 n2 p250-256 Jun 2012
Camilo Jimenez taught writing and literature at the prestigious Universidad Javeriana in Columbia for nine years until his resignation in December 2011, for reasons explained in this article. Having found that only three out of thirty of his students in his "Assessment of Non-Fiction Texts" course could successfully summarize a work in one paragraph with proper accents, submit it on time, and use a limited number of words that varied from one exercise to another, Jimenez became convinced that "curiosity vanished from those twenty-something students of mine from the moment that Dr. Google began to answer everything immediately, right away." He states his belief that these "digital natives" have lost the ability to concentrate, to be introspective, quiet... the ability to be alone. He made the decision to leave teaching because he felt he could no longer communicate with these digital natives. He did not understand their new interests, and did not believe he had found a way to show them what he considered essential to the craft of editing.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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