D. Tapscott's research while affiliated with New York State and other places

Citations

... We have all likely heard that current post-secondary students are "digital natives" and that many faculty are "digital immigrants," meaning that while our students have grown up in a world filled with digital tools and access to the Internet, we came to these things later in life and are not as proficient with these tools. This distinction, popularized by Marc Prensky (2001) and Don Tapscott (1997;2008), is premised on the assumption that by having always had digital devices, millennials/digital natives are habituated to using these tools, and even the way that they think has been impacted by this life-long digital immersion and network connection. Taken to its most extreme articulations, the digital native/digital immigrant divide suggests that digital natives are already digitally fluent and digital immigrants cannot further develop students' fluency. ...