Internet-Savvy Youth

Having grown up with technology as an integral part of their lives, many teens are deeply immersed in an increasingly complex and distributed culture of computing and video gaming. They use technology and its tools to engage, extend, interact with, play, and explore an increasingly complex world in order to give it meaning. A small but growing group of adolescents have become intrepid explorers of the Internet and all that it offers. They have become unintentional and unknowing participants in a series of global transformations that presage significant, disruptive change in our society and in particular, in how we teach and learn in our schools. This book explores the attitudes and behaviors of a group of technologically elite youth who use the Internet for most everything they do. It posits a new construct called Internet-savviness that operationalizes a deep history of cognitive and learning theory and indicates a path to meet the needs of the 21st century classroom. This study will be of interest to anyone who is actively engaged in the study and practice of how young people learn and acquire new knowledge.

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Roger W. Geyer is a Microsoft® Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE+I) and Developer (MCSD)and a co-founder of HyperLearning Technologies. Roger also holds a Ph.D in Instructional Technology and is an Assistant Professor of Computer Systems and Information Technology at the American University of Iraq in Sulaimani, Iraq.