Comments on: Twittering the Manila Folder: My Experience at ROFLCon http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/05/05/twittering-the-manila-folder-my-experience-at-roflcon/ Berkman investigators, fellows, research assistants and interns sound off about all things Digital Natives Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:33:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: LarNabacaws http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/05/05/twittering-the-manila-folder-my-experience-at-roflcon/comment-page-1/#comment-8550 LarNabacaws Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:11:05 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/05/05/twittering-the-manila-folder-m#comment-8550 Test Message>>> Test Message>>>

]]> By: Adam Lindsay http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/05/05/twittering-the-manila-folder-my-experience-at-roflcon/comment-page-1/#comment-555 Adam Lindsay Thu, 15 May 2008 10:11:12 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/05/05/twittering-the-manila-folder-m#comment-555 Hi Nathan, We're thinking along the same lines: take a look at the <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/05/12/augmented-reality-overload-a-digital-natives-guest-post/#comments" rel="nofollow">discussion</a> on my follow-up guest post. Hi Nathan,
We’re thinking along the same lines: take a look at the discussion on my follow-up guest post.

]]> By: Nathan Zeldes http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/05/05/twittering-the-manila-folder-my-experience-at-roflcon/comment-page-1/#comment-553 Nathan Zeldes Thu, 15 May 2008 07:51:38 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/05/05/twittering-the-manila-folder-m#comment-553 It will be fascinating to find out, in due course, whether the new species of digital natives really can multi-task all that well. Obviously they do have more facility with mobile and online technology that many older people, but their brains actually use the same hardware - which, as Adam found out for himself, has its limitations. For my part I suspect that, ultimately, we'll discover that they can multi-task well on matters like twittering and messaging socially, activities that are fairly shallow mentally (no offense), but when they become physicists and need to develop the next grand theory of Quantum Relativity - or do any other deep mental work - they will need to focus on it to the exclusion of the endless digital interruptions. It will be fascinating to find out, in due course, whether the new species of digital natives really can multi-task all that well. Obviously they do have more facility with mobile and online technology that many older people, but their brains actually use the same hardware – which, as Adam found out for himself, has its limitations.

For my part I suspect that, ultimately, we’ll discover that they can multi-task well on matters like twittering and messaging socially, activities that are fairly shallow mentally (no offense), but when they become physicists and need to develop the next grand theory of Quantum Relativity – or do any other deep mental work – they will need to focus on it to the exclusion of the endless digital interruptions.

]]> By: Adam Lindsay http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/05/05/twittering-the-manila-folder-my-experience-at-roflcon/comment-page-1/#comment-500 Adam Lindsay Mon, 05 May 2008 23:41:52 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/05/05/twittering-the-manila-folder-m#comment-500 Hey, Diana, great to see some of your reflections! But, shucks, I didn't twitter from the panel, even though I had intended to. The panel conversation was so fast-paced and lively that I had to be (mentally) present for the whole time, just to keep up. I did step out of the moment just a couple times to take some photos (which finally made it to my flickr stream--by no means in real time, there), from the panel. One of the lessons for me was that although I have the digital tools, I don't multi-task nearly well enough to be able to seamlessly mediate between the real and virtual worlds without a costly context switch, something I caught myself on during twitter checks at other ROFLCon sessions. I look to the younger digital natives for more seamless navigation within augmented reality. :-) Hey, Diana, great to see some of your reflections!

But, shucks, I didn’t twitter from the panel, even though I had intended to. The panel conversation was so fast-paced and lively that I had to be (mentally) present for the whole time, just to keep up. I did step out of the moment just a couple times to take some photos (which finally made it to my flickr stream–by no means in real time, there), from the panel.

One of the lessons for me was that although I have the digital tools, I don’t multi-task nearly well enough to be able to seamlessly mediate between the real and virtual worlds without a costly context switch, something I caught myself on during twitter checks at other ROFLCon sessions. I look to the younger digital natives for more seamless navigation within augmented reality. :-)

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