Participatory Culture, Hybrid Reality, and the Digital Native: The Reality of our Learners

This past week we had the first of a series of Tech Cafes which allows for an informal setting to share ideas, both academic and practical, around the implementation of technology in the classroom. Our first session's topic was about the reality of our learners as digital natives and how this might be reflected in our classroom practices. The description for the session was:

"In an attempt to better understand our students and how their understanding of the world is different than that of the digital immigrant, I will share some of the foundational insights I have gained during the course of my degree in Digital Experience Innovation."

Following is the recording from the session. Because this was a session about technology we of course had technical issues. The quality of the video is not great, but I have tried to splice in the slides during the worst of it. The camera has since been retired as a pile of plastic shards.