This article looks at the new generation coined 'digital natives' and considers the importance of a cultural change in education and the way education should be taught. The article discusses the debate between the need to change the educators and the system or whether it is all just a 'moral panic'.
It is true that education must develop along-side the changes in society and culturally. However, this text claims that the lack of research into what 'digital natives' actually need has driven people to a 'moral panic'. Perhaps there is not enough research, but this does not mean that a change in education should be over-looked. Education does need to reform itself in many ways to gain full advantage of the wonders of modern technology. If new media continues to grow but new generations can not learn how to use it, then surely we are ruining the opportunities given to us by this wonderful technology?
I also feel that this article over-generalises in some instances, for example, "young people live their lives completely immersed by technology". It is true that becoming reliable on mobiles and the Internet is easy for young people, however, to assume that all young people are immersed by it is unfair. There are thousand of young people who do not have such luxuries as phones or laptop and so have little or no contact with technology.
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