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Why Professor Johnny Can't Read: Understanding the Net Generation's Texts
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Mabrito, Mark; Medley, Rebecca – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2008
One way of better understanding Net-Generation learners is to examine the texts they create on online social networking, blogging, and image sites as well as in virtual worlds. Mark Mabrito and Rebecca Medley explore the nature of Net-Generation texts as a reflection of the cognitive differences between this generation's students and their older…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Content Analysis, Computer Mediated Communication, Social Networks