ICT in society ICT affects many aspects of society. This piece
should become an overview article about information and
knowledge society and its relation to education and learning -
Daniel K. Schneider 18:21, 27 October 2009 (UTC). Digital
natives ? Opinions on the young generation's ICT skills widely
differ. Most authors probably would agree that the new
generation (starting as by the end of the 1990s) is different
and terms like digital natives (Prensky, 2001), home zappiens
(Veen, 2006), net generation (Oblinger, 2005) or instant
generation etc. are used to describe it. However, being a bit
different doesn't imply necessarily that the young generation
has good ICT skills. According to John Connell, Wim Veen “homed
in on his observation that kids today ask questions, whenever
they are learning, that are different in kind from the sorts of
questions that my generation were ‘taught’ to ask, and the
difference can be seen in the contrast between, for instance, a
book and a computer game. The book is linear; th