WebQuests: Tools for Differentiation

Abstract

gifted child today 29 T he Net-Generation has arrived!... Eighty million strong, the youngest of these kids are still in diapers, and the eldest are just turning twenty.... What makes this generation different from all others before it? It is the first to grow up sur-rounded by digital media. Computers can be found in the home, school, factory, and office and digital technologies such as cameras, video games, and CD-ROMs are commonplace. Increasingly, these new media are connected by the Internet, an expanding web of networks which is attracting a million new users monthly. Today’s kids are so bathed in bits that they think it’s all part of the natural landscape. To them, the digital technology is no more intimidat-ing that a VCR or toaster.... Boomers stand back. Already these kids are learning, playing, communi-