2. Reflection

Blog your reflections on the Who are the Net Gen? module, here.

• What have I learnt?
• What is still unclear?
• What do I need to follow up on?
• Where to from here?
• What other stuff I have read or accessed to help me make sense of it all?

2. Are we Net Gen, too?

Blog your answers to the focus questions in ‘Are we Net Gen, too?’ in the Who are the Net Gen? module, here.

What elements of Net Gen behaviour do you see in yourself? Do you find yourself switching more and more between tasks rather than focusing on just one? Are you less tolerant of lack of information? Poor information? Sloooooooow information? Are you searching less for one type of format (e.g., journals) and more for ‘the answer’ regardless of format? (i.e., a legitimate-looking website will do …) If you want to know more, check out the CIBER report that examines the Information behaviour of the researcher of the future (pdf).

2. What makes a Net Gen?

Blog your answers to the focus questions in ‘What makes a Net Gen’ in the Who are the Net Gen? module, here.

Who do you think the Net Gen are? Are they the same as the ‘Y’ generation? What age group are they? Are ‘their’ learning styles different from ‘ours’? Is this is all just a load of old baloney and a moral panic over nothing?

What characterises their attitudes towards

• Information?
• Community?
• Collaboration?
• Communication?
• Choice?
• Complexity?

What makes a ‘net’ generation? Is it age or ways of behaving online, regardless of age? Does actually growing up with Web 2.0 technologies actually make any difference? Write down your thoughts, discuss with a partner or small group in the class, or blog it!

2. Who are the Net Gen?

Place any general responses you have to the module What is Web 2.0? here.

1. Compare Mindsets 1.0 and 2.0

Blog your answers to the exercise, ‘Compare Mindsets 1.0 and 2.0’ in the What is Web 2.0? module, here.

Go through each ‘mindset’ (Lankshear and Knobel (pdf)) line by line, below. Find examples of each mindset, e.g., ‘Product as artefact = book; Product as service = blog site”. Which mindset do you belong to and when? What about your students: which mindset are they most comfortable with? What are the values inherent in each mindset? What about the problems?

Mindset 1.0	Mindset 2.0
The world is appropriately interpreted, understood and responded to in broadly physical industrial terms	The world cannot adequately be interpreted, understood and responded to in physical-industrial terms only
Products as material artifacts	Products as enabling services
Tools for producing	Tools for mediating and relating
Focus on individual intelligence	Focus on collective intelligence
Expertise and authority ‘located’ in individuals and institutions	Expertise and authority are distributed and collective; hybrid experts
Space as enclosed and purpose specific	Space as open, continuous and fluid
Social relations of ‘bookspace’; a stable ‘textual order’	Social relations of emerging ‘digital media space’; texts in change

1. Compare Web 1.0 and Web 2.0

Blog your answers to the exercise, ‘Compare Web 1.0 and Web 2.0’ in the What is Web 2.0? module, here.

Go through O’Reilly’s below, above, line by line. Identify the things you know about, e.g., ‘Britiannica Online –> Wikipedia’. How are those things different between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0? What different characteristics do they have? Write down your thoughts, discuss with a partner or small group in the class, or blog it!

Source: http://res.sys-con.com/story/sep07/428865/Table-1-rev.jpg

1. What is Web 2.0?

Place any general responses you have to What is Web 2.0? here.

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meg