The assumption of a "Technology Age Gap" needs to be challenged. My experience of teaching over the last decade, both online and in the classroom, suggests that information technology competence among young learners is far from uniform and not always of a high order. Furthermore, those of us who started using PCs with the Apple IIs and Commodore 64s of the early 80s have to remind young users that the Internet did not start with the World Wide Web in the early 90s, and neither the Internet nor personal computers were inventions of recent generations.......Alex Alex Kuskis, PhD Adjunct Professor MA Progam in Communication & Leadership School of Professional Studies Gonzaga University "Learning a living" - Marshall McLuhan -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Peter Timusk Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 12:42 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] short review: Salkowitz, Rob. Generation Blend I am interested in technology and age difference but this book that helped spur my interest did not help much. I would like to add age and technology attitudes to my thesis simulation so any sharing welcome. Blog entry Sunday, June 08, 2008 Interesting but not very complex reading and could be considered ageist in its failings. I am reading this book right now amongst others. Salkowitz, Rob. Generation Blend: Managing Across the Technology Age Gap (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2008) While this book is interesting and covers a vast array technological areas it falls short of having any details. The reason it fails is that it only assumes youth are better and more comfortable with technology and such things as web 2.0 and does not hold back from this view. Again and again the old are considered technological deficient and the youth technologically gifted. So no matter what technology or workplace practice the author examines he does not change from this perspective. This could have been a much more interesting book with much more results. I would suggest the author embark on empirical studies to back up his points. This is book is signed off on by Microsoft which is mud on their fenders in my opinion. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/