From an evolutionary perspective, human thinking will change fundamentally when those who cope with digital tools well have more children than those who do not....

But seriously, if there was good evidence that digital tools improved cognition or student learning, then we would be having this information crammed down our throats. There are many vested interests in showing that computers are good for learning, but little evidence. PISA, for example, shows a negative effect of computer use on student results, both by individual and by country. Recent American studies on reading show something similar.

As for the idea that kids are native and we are immigrants - this is bunk. As Mike Wesch (http://www.youtube.com/user/mwesch) says, "There are no natives here". Blogging, YouTube, Flickr, VoiceThread, (etc. etc.) all this stuff is so new that no-one has really grasped its potential, let alone children. I work in a high school where all the kids have grown up in homes with computers and internet connections, but their 'digital competancy' is mostly pretty low. They have to learn, just like the rest of us.

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