Catechizing Digital Natives – Footnotes and Further Reading
This week I am giving a webinar on catechizing the “digital generation.” The following are footnotes and suggestions for further reading from the webinar:
Books
- Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives by John Palfrey & Urs Gasser
- Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World by Don Tapscott
- Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning by Marc Pensky
Articles
- Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants by Marc Prensky (PDF)
- Do They Really Think Differently? by Marc Pensky (PDF)
- How Digital Technology Has Changed the Brain by Don Tapscott
- Life Support: What Young People Need in a Digital Age (PDF)
- Using Technology to Get Teens to Pray by Nick Senger
- Prayer Tools for Netizens by Nick Senger
- 8 Myths about Digital Natives by John Palfrey & Urs Gasser
- Interactive Connections, Issue 1
- Twitter and the transformation of friendship by Ron Dreher
- The Future of Reading: Don’t worry. It might be better than you think by John Green
- Tapscott: Digital natives need tech-rich education by Laura Devaney (free registration required)
- Why no one cares about privacy anymore by Declan McCullagh
Blogs
- Growing in Christ – St. Thomas Aquinas Parish (East Lansing, MI)
- One Catholic Life – Nick Senger
- Catechesis in the Third Millennium – William O’Leary
Media
- TKAMB21: To Kill A Mockingbird Meets the 21st Century
- That Catholic Show
- Don Tapscott Telling the Joe O’Shea Story on NetAtNite with Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur (2008-12-17) (MP3 audio file)
- Social Media Week Presentations
Tools
If you watched the webinar, please leave a comment with your thoughts and reactions!
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