Digital+Natives

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Who are Digital Natives?
Digitial Natives are the generation of students who speak the "native tongue" of digital. There is a digital language that exists in today's society and not everyone can speak it. This generation expects to get the information they are looking for really fast and quite easily. They learn better from visuals rather than reading or viewing text. As well, they like to receive frequent rewards and quick gratification. They spend numerous hours using technology and tend not to learn the same way as their parents did. Now teachers must find better instructional approaches to promote student learning for this new generation that has its own different issues than older generations.

How does privacy become an issue for Digital Natives?
How many times have you been asked for your name, address, birthday, and other personal items on the internet? The life of a digital native is always being recorded. Google yourself. How many website come up with your name? How many come up with your personal information? The issue is that the young generation is placing valuable information on the internet with little protection.

Here are some examples from the [|Elements of Digital Privacy Wiki] in which privacy becomes an issue every time someone uses the internet:
 * A search on Google results in a stream of information being sent and stored in the Google servers. This includes the computer IP address, the date and time of the query, the browser used, and the unique cookie ID assigned to the computer. If G-mail users are logged in, then Google associates this data with personally identifiable information.
 * Microsoft Live Search also records the type of search you conducted (image, Web, local, etc.), while Google additionally stores your browser type and language. And when you click on a link displayed on Google, that may also be recorded and associated with your computer's IP address. While Google Inc. recently announced that it would make its search logs anonymous after 18 months' time by deleting part of the IP address and obfuscating cookies associated with search queries, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. haven't yet made their retention policies public. AOL LLC stores this data for just one month.
 * Every Internet search resides on a computer somewhere. Comings and goings are monitored by security cameras. Phone calls are logged by telecommunications companies.
 * In 2006, AOL released the search data of over 20 million users for the public to view.
 * ZabaSearch queries return a wealth of info, sometimes dating back more than 10 years: residential addresses, phone numbers both listed and unlisted, birth year, even satellite photos of people's homes. ZabaSearch isn't the first or only such service online. Yahoo's free People Search for example, returns names, telephone numbers, and addresses. But the information is nothing more than what's been available for years in the White Pages...Far more personal information is available from data brokers, including aliases, bankruptcy records, and tax liens. That access typically requires a fee however, which has always been a barrier to the casual snooper...But ZabaSearch makes it easier than ever to find comprehensive personal information on anyone.

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