Consulting the Digital Natives

Can we teach digital natives digital literacy?

In recent years, there has been much debate about the concept of digital natives, in particular the differences between the digital natives’ knowledge and adoption of digital technologies in informal versus formal educational contexts. This paper investigates the knowledge about educational technologies of a group of undergraduate students studying the course Introduction to eLearning at a univ...

Effective Online Testing - Nurturing the Digital Natives

This paper aims to take a glance at a flexible solution for online-testing at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (AAUK). We will present a recently implemented software that allows students to conduct their exams online and directly on their own devices, while at the same time preventing them accessing locally stored files or non-specified internet pages. A survey among the participating st...

Digital natives: where is the evidence?

Security Awareness of the Digital Natives

Young generations make extensive use of mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablets and laptops, while a plethora of security risks associated with such devices are induced by vulnerabilities related to user behavior. Furthermore, the number of security breaches on or via portable devices increases exponentially. Thus, deploying suitable risk treatments requires the investigation of how the di...

Two generations of digital natives

From surveys, interviews and observations in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, we assert that there are two generations of digital natives (ND): young people 1.0 and 2.0. Although both share common characteristics, the 2.0 has particular characteristics: they are a post-mail generation, often growing up around digital environments and they tend to share intimacy aspects in an online mode. Th...