If…
If you were born around 20 years ago, how would you be different?
Would you be one of the digital natives or would you have rebelled?
Would your family have been able to afford a computer? What kind?
Would you have majored in a different field?
Would you have been as successful or more successful or less successful with all the distractions of social media?
Think about the historic events of the last 20 years. Would you have grown up more fearful, less fearful, or with about the same amount of fear on various levels? Consider fear at the national, regional, local, and intimate levels.
Would you be confident that your country could win in any conflict?
Would you believe that you would be safe in your city, neighborhood, school, or home?
My point is that so many of us look at digital natives as though they have had everything very easy. They, like every other generation, have had their challenges. Their lives will change more dramatically than mine did. I hope they are up to it. I hope we are up to providing them the skill sets to succeed.
Happy New Year.
