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

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

• WordPress
• Flocknote
• Flip Video Cameras
• MyCatholicVoice.com
• Animoto

If you watched the webinar, please leave a comment with your thoughts and reactions!

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