Funny the little coincidences. After posting about Digital Natives on Saturday I was catching up on some reading and I encountered an article in last April's Communications of the ACM (yes I know, I really behind on my reading...). Inconsistencies and Disconnects by Jeffrey Stone and Elinor Madigan examines the issue of student information technology skills, and more importantly the disconnect between student perceptions of their skills and reality.

A meme that I have found particularly irritating in recent years is the myth popularised by Marc Prensky that children who have grown up in the last decade or so - the Millenials - are somehow inherently more gifted and competent in the fluent use of technology, Digital Natives. And that the rest of us are Digital Immigrants - strangers in the strange land of the Internet and technology.