Very pleased to hear that Dancing With Digital Natives was named to EdTech Digest’s List of End of Summer Reads: Top 25 EdTech Books.
From the introduction to the list:
These excellent titles from some brilliant minds are enough to keep the conversation about 21st-century learning very much alive.
We’re very proud to make the list, particularly given the excellent company, which includes The Cluetrain Manifesto, Grown Up Digital, Born Digital, and many other wonderful books.
The American Librarians site offers a wonderful round up of books providing insight into Conquering the Digital Divide. It looks at several recent books, including Dancing With Digital Natives, that provide insights on how to bridge the divide, explain why we need to, and offer some research to help make decisions.
On Dancing With Digital Natives, they write:
These essays provide background context, along with print and online references, for considering issues such as supporting homework help when much of the homework is online, integrating social media into reference services, or hiring a new librarian who comes with a 2.0 brand.
Click here to read the review and learn about other books that provide insights into Conquering the Digital Divide.
Thank you to Deridre Pickerell of Life Strategies Limited for her thoughtful post of Dancing With Digital Natives on their Career Engagement blog. From the review:
Dancing with Digital Natives is a new, and interesting, book edited by Michelle Manafy and Heidi Gautschi. It is a must-read for anyone interested in generations in the workplace, especially Gen Y, and how this generation, and their exposure to technology, is changing the way business does business.
The review also pulls out some key points, with page numbers and I encourage you to read it if you are interested in this topic.
Hypbot.com, a music, technology and music business blog founded by Bruce Houghton who is the Founder and President of booking agency Skyline Music. Contributor Clyde Smith.wrote an insightful review of Dancing With Digital Natives. He focused on Peggy Anne Salz’ (founder of Mobile Groove) chapter “Inspired Interaction: Youth Marketing on Mobile.”
Smith writes:
As Salz notes, mobile technologies heighten the tendency of digital natives to “create, comment, and connect around content at the very moment of inspiration.” And given the tendency to stay connected via mobile devices throughout one’s day, researchers have “observed an emergent social norm around frequent text messages to signal unavailability from a shared digital space, such as a forum or chat room,” i.e., being connected is the “default” state of being.
He goes on to discuss how this must change the way the music industry thinks about its content marketing, and even content creation model. Read the Hypbot.com review.
Ellen Naylor provides a bit of insight into how the book offers insights that are applicable to a broad range of applications, including CI.
It’s a good read for any information professional and give CI professionals who collect intelligence some better ideas of how to relate to the Millenial generation, which naturally wants to share, but may not trust us elders.
Read her comments and the discussion here.
Heather Negley is an editor at Free Pint Limited and the founder of Help A Librarian. Heather reviewed Dancing With Digital Natives on FUMSI Forum.
According to Heather:
“Dancing With Digital Natives is alive with ideas and left me with the sense that this dance is just beginning and that there are a lot more exciting subjects to explore. Digital natives and digital immigrants (i.e. the rest of us) have a lot to learn from and share with each other as the world evolves.”
David Meerman Scott is a marketing strategist, keynote speaker, seminar leader, and the author of seven books published in more than 30 languages. He reviewed Dancing With Digital Natives on his website, Web Ink Now.
You can read the review at Web Ink Now: Dancing With Digital Natives and join the discussion that his review has spawned.
According to Scott:
“Every day, miscommunication happens between “Digital Natives” (those born since the availability of today’s technologies and therefore have native fluency in computers, mobile phones, and social networks) and “Digital Immigrants” (who have had to adapt and learn)…A new book of essays called Dancing with Digital Natives: Staying in Step with the Generation That’s Transforming the Way Business Is Done, edited by Michelle Manafy and Heidi Gautschi is a good place to start.”
