Memes are concepts imitated by users, from person to person, emulating a common theme or cultural transmission (Blackmore, 1998). The concept of a ‘meme’ is not new, but the modality is; now we have images rapidly spread among groups of people who may previously have had no connection. Memes are part of our changing concepts…
Advice for Digital Parenting
As digital natives grow and develop in their increasingly technological lives, their parents need to develop as well. No matter their technology skills prior to having children, they are now responsible for raising a child to be not only a successful human, but a model citizen of the world-wide web. The expectations, the pressure, and…
Digital Natives & Technological Skills: Overrated or Innovators?
Millennials are the target of many criticisms in popular media, and even an areas which seems should be intuitive for the younger generation–their digital skills–receive more judgment than praise. Michael Lambert, the headmaster of Dubai College, has harsh words for millennials (a term which in this situation he uses interchangeably with digital natives) in the workplace.…