The Digital Native

The author suggests that leaders in educational programs should adopt the values of a Social Change Model in conjunction with digital leadership competencies. According to the article, the Social Change Model is a leadership development model composed of three levels, including individual, group, and community and is primarily used in higher education to train college students to become agents of social change. With this in mind, digital leadership requires reflection on online self-awareness and congruence, grappling with the controversy that comes with cyber civility and how to be a digital citizen prepared to inspire positive change in modern society. In addition, these leaders should be adept in digital literacy, which includes a concatenation of technical (online interfaces, applications), cognitive (critically thinking), and social/emotional (netiquette, safety) (Ahlquist, 2014). These competencies give leaders the leeway to quickly address rapid changes in technology by being creative and collaborative in hope to facilitate a better

As a result, this potentially decreases the need and want for interacting in person since technology is convenient and requires minimum effort for communication. It also conflicts with the construction of the self. Now that technology has become more popularized, individuals must maintain two respective identities online and in real life. Online identities are oftentimes misconstrued because they can be built off of a false reality and only show what’s on the surface. Consequently, it’s easier for people to harbor deeper emotions and hinder their true selves by worrying about how they are defined online. Another agent of socialization that is altering is school. Nowadays, there are many resources of attaining an education that is easier and requires no method of transportation: online learning. Although online learning and schools are extremely beneficial and allow people to have an easier access for education, it denounces the social aspect of school. School is an extremely influential agent of socialization where students learn how to construct their identities based on what they learn in school, who they interact with, and who they look up to. Online schools do not provide any of these social aspects. Instead, they rely on emails, chatrooms, and discussion boards for the facilitation of learning. As a result, students lose a valuable resource of constructing their own social identity since they do not have any peers to converse with nor teachers to

This thesis documents the effects of social media on the generations born into a society that never knew a world without the technology and the possible changes in cognitive behavior. The author, seeking a Master's of Science in Education, used several accredited sources to support her arguments. The The paper direct connects to my subject by observing the digital native generation and the changes is social behavior.

For this research article the author has chosen to use a grounded theory approach. Grounded theory is a qualitative method of research which allows the researchers to construct meaning of the selected topic via a process of development and reflection of the data collected (Charmaz, 2014). Grounded theory provides a flexible and intuitive process to data collection and analysis allowing the construction of a theory that is truly grounded from the data (Charmaz, 2014).

2001.In his article “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” Prensky defined ‘digital natives’ as young people who grew up surrounded by and using computers, cell phones and other tools of the digital age. Prensky claims that a digital environment dramatically changes the way that young people think and process information, it possibly even changes their brain structures. Prensky contrast ‘digital natives’ to ‘digital immigrants’. Digital immigrants are people who were born before widespread use of digital technology and who adopted it to some extent later in life. Prensky states that all people born after 1980 are ‘digital

This article is an excellent example of work that is based on grounded theory and demonstrates the ways in which qualitative research provides the kind of rich data that are often lacking when a quantitative study is used. This is not to say that either qualitative or quantitative studies are better than each other. Rather, these different types of studies provide different types of data, and these different types of data provide answers to different types of questions.

The data collected through the interviews shall be analyzed by applying grounded theory approach. The interview transcript shall be analyzed through open coding by following steps:

120). Data using the grounded theory method is collected using journals, case notes, and information from previous studies (Sheperis et al., 2010). In addition, it was stated that interviews and data collected from interviews is the richest type of data since the data has such variety (Sheperis et al., 2010). However, in order for the participants to feel like the researcher can be trusted, allowing the participant to further open up and divulge information, the researcher must be sensitive and open in order to maintain a good client-researcher relationship (Sheperis et al., 2010). A limitation of this type of theory would be a researcher who does not possess the skill of being open and sensitive to their clients, not allowing proper data collection to take place on part of lack of provided information from participants. In comparison, a strength of this type of theory is that the grounded theory model looks at the data first, making researchers stop, take a look at the data, thinking about what was gathered, and then looking at the word or the topic which was researched in a different set of lenses or from a different view (Sheperis et al., 2010). Furthermore, this type of theory can be used to analyze complex social problems such as violence within groups or relationships. These problems can be between people and social structures or groups, without needing the

Thematic analysis technique is used to identify and analyze patterns or themes within the work being analyzed (Vaismoradi, Turunen, & Bondas, 2013). In order to familiarize oneself in the data, they must reread the diary so that they themselves are submerged in the data (Gray et al., 2017, p. 270). Thematic analysis was used in the study to expose 18 meaning units, which consist of a group of words that are associated with each other through relevancy (Graneheim & Lundman, 2004, p.

LEARNING: I seek to engage in lifelong learning by acquiring new knowledge about media technology, such as social media. I cultivate in my students a passion for truth by encouraging critical thinking in their work, and teach them practical and transferrable skills that they can use in all areas of their lives. I ask them to use their imagination to find research topics from their daily media consumption and their social networking practices. I facilitate their pursuit of co-op learning experiences by reviewing their resumes and learning objectives, and following their on-site

Conducted a qualitative methodology approach research with a grounded theory design. This study implements the GCU core case study research design.

Since the researcher should follow a constant comparative method with the responses obtained, interviews are one of the best research approach to be adopted under this methodology. Additionally, it is with the use of interviews that the researcher can traverse through the theoretical codes of grounded theory that integrate the emerging theory with the research problems as depicted in Figure 2.

The technological and innovative advancements that young adults have access to today can attest to how vastly times have changed. Presence of the internet and social media has opened doors to life altering opportunities that were thought unattainable. However, there are two sides to every coin. With these possibilities come unrealistic expectations that are forced on the youth of the world inevitably leading to dire outcomes.

When utilizing a qualitative approach, the task becomes one of determining the qualitative method to be used. Additionally, Stake (2010) used purpose, research design, and methodical data techniques as a way of classifying types of qualitative research. Similarly, Cresswell & Cresswell (2007) spoke of five practices of qualitative research. These five practices consist of biography, phenomenological study, grounded theory study, ethnography, and case study. This researcher chose a phenomenological study for this research project.

This is important in order to gain data that is qualitative, that should give an account of views and emotions. The grounded theory approach also involves theoretical sampling which investigates incidents, and populations, therefore this tells us that the method used was relevant to this study. A theory should then that stem from the data, this concept was correct in this case, as several themes emerged from the results. The data is analysed as it is collected using interviews, or observations (Punch 1998 cited in Bell 2008). The researcher’s methods related to the grounded theory approach, as indicated.