2007: First keynote - Ewan McIntosh

The conference is underway and I’m listening to Ewan, the first keynote speaker. Ewan is talking about digital holidaymakers. Audience members applauded when he gave his view on accuracy of digital immigrants/natives metaphor, no doubt due to the huge numbers of “older” teachers who are at the forefront of the digital innovations in their schools, and see the “digital natives” yet to catch up. Ewan ranges over flickr, youtube, blogging and more, posing questions about the time teenagers spend on creating online video to the time they spend on school activity.