I’m Gen-X; I teach Millennials and Digital Natives. Is this newest crop of prepubescents still considered part of the Digital Native tribe?
I could see that since despite the fact that I programmed dynamic websites for a living during the height of the Internet start-up bubble, my eldest actually schools me on occasion in the functioning of my iPhone, which is just plain embarrassing.
The reason I ask is because of something the almost-7-year-old said today. Any time we run an errand, the chatter in the back seat is almost constant and as long as it’s not arguing I tend to tune it out. Today they were taking turns adding the next sentence to an extended story that started as a riff on Star Wars. I happened to tune back in just in time to hear the little one say: “Well, why don’t we just move to a new planet and call it Earth 2.0?”
Seriously, a first-grader thinks in software versioning terms?