Paper Proposal

I am excited to write my paper on digital natives raising digital natives because it is a pertinent and relevant topic right now (in my opinion), has not really been explored yet and is important to the new generation of children being born, whose parents are tech-savvy.

I was inspired while reading Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives because I consider myself to be a digital native,  and will be starting a family soon, like many of my peers who are already parents. This topic needs to be addressed because hereafter, everyone born will be a digital native, raised by digital natives. The first generation of digital natives were introduced to computers, cell phones and portable video games, but now babies play with iPads and kids scroll through Netflix like they are reading a book. Parents are more comfortable with technology and need to be educated on how and what to do and not to do, especially since they themselves are never without their smartphones.

I intend to compile research (thank you, Cheri!) like surveys, knowledge from sources like John Palfrey and Urs Gasser's book,  and INTERVIEWS/personal surveys. I will create a survey via Qualtrics and pose questions to those I'm connected to on social media sites like Google+, Facebook and Twitter. I know it will be a limited survey but at least I will get some modern, quick information from digital natives who are now parents. Through personal interviews, I can contrasts parenting methods of digital natives and digital immigrants.

Overall, I want to show that we, as a society, have reached a shift where digital immigrants are no longer the majority and that parents will be embracing technology and already have vast online presences. My paper will by no means be a parenting guide because I am not qualified to write such a thing, but a call to attention that this is an issue parents need to consider as they raise their children, through the combination of wise traditions and innovative advancements.