{"id":143,"date":"2010-04-15T11:10:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T11:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2010-04-15T11:13:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T11:13:54","slug":"digital-natives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Digital Natives?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lazy argument that because young people today are digital natives (i.e. people who have grown up with computer technology and use that technology in their day-to-day lives) that this group will therefore naturally be attracted to computer science, in the broad sense, as a topic of study. Would engineers have made the same argument about telephones in the 1980&#8217;s, that because teenagers spend their time chatting on the phone that they will therefore be interested in communications engineering? I don&#8217;t think this sort of argument was made then\u2014is the current argument any more coherent than that would be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lazy argument that because young people today are digital natives (i.e. people who have grown up with computer technology and use that technology in their day-to-day lives) that this group will therefore naturally be attracted to computer science, in the broad sense, as a topic of study. Would engineers have made the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[22,31],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}