Week 8 - Article 3 Criticism

The article is composed by research carried out on 6,602 in depth questionnaires, being a representative sample of 350 primary and secondary schools in Catalonia (Spain). At first glance i thought that because of the different culture, the findings may be completely different and impossible in relating it back to some of the previous work that i've looked at. However i actually enjoyed reading this article. Despite the fact that the research doesn't even have a date, the lastest reference used was back in 2005, and the authors aren't recognisable with a background that hints at the authors being worthy of reading, what they do state are different approaches, that when i was questioning Prensky's work has been acknowledged, for example i questioned the access of technology. If a child doesn't have access to a computer, then how can they be working at become literate and therefore be considered a 'digital native'. This article however looks at these 'digital inequalities'

Their work sometimes looks at both sides of the argument, but there is one point that i may disagree with, the issue of a parent being a childs main educational agent, also passing on their uses of technology to their children. I disagree with this as i think children are autonomous, i think that a child would just use technology whether their parents use it or not.

Also the article may be easy to read but their main aim is to use the research to offer 'elements of reflection' for educators to try and make the technology more available. However i think society has already taken care of that already, with many schools adopting technology for kids no matter what their inequalities.