Digital natives in university environments

Abstract

This research aimed to find out whether freshmen at the Universidad Mayor in Chile, have the characteristics of digital natives that define authors like Prensky Jenkins and features.

It was determined that freshmen college possess characteristics of digital natives, such as hypertext, multitasking and prefer the image over the text. It was observed that despite having the characteristics of an active audience characteristics, are not content producers.
Could also be observed that appropriate technology for social purposes and not for
production purposes