Generation Y, the digital natives, the generation born between 1980 and 2000 are different, we’re told, because they grew up with the internet as part of their lives almost from birth.
But how different are they really?

In fact, not very, argues this article from the Economist. It questions the consensus view that “digital technologies have given rise to a new generation of students, consumers, and citizens who see the world in a different way”.

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And it warns those who say we need teach the digital natives differently because they learn differently that this approach is not just wrong, but “might actually be counterproductive”.