What we can learn from the first digital generation: Implications for developing twenty-first century learning and thinking skills in the primary grades

Education 3-13

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-54

  Hoffman, Jo ^a  

^a KEAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital natives; Primary grades; Twenty first century learning and thinking skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958095477     PISSN: 03004279     EISSN: 14757575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03004270903099827     Document Type: Article

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