This is a reaction to Kayla’s entry from the 11 August. I am not from the NET nation. I am from the generation that started playing ‘Snakes’ on Commodore 64s or Ataris that were owned by my friends’ bigger brothers. Computers were for nerds (even if they were good looking).  My mum sent me to a typewriting course at age 15. We learned on old fashioned typewriters. A year later she announced I should expand that skill and start taking writing lessons on a computer. That was my first experience on a PC. Whilst I was cross with her at the time, I am today very happy she made me do it.  In regards to Kayla’s questions why we are not ‘experiencing what we’re being told to teach’: compared to my own time at school (and first time round at university for that matter), I feel UTS is doing great in terms of digital delivery methods – I wouldn’t want any less face-to-face instructions or more e-readings (give me hardcopy book any time!) than we currently have. I guess because I don’t feel I have missed out by not learning with ICT in the classroom, my feelings towards inclusion take a midle ground approach. I do feel very computer literate and I thoroughly enjoy using multimedia and IT as part of my every day life and aim to do so in my teaching. Yet, I don’t think that Digital Resources are the only way to enable experimental learning and I would wish to be able to teach students the value of ‘real’ as well as ‘cyber’ life.

Digital resources enable experiential learning—something in tune with Net Gen preferences. Rather than being told, Net Geners would rather construct their own learning, assembling information, tools, and frameworks from a variety of sources.