August 5, 2010
Digital Culture and the Church – Pt. 1
I recently helped Rev. Andrew Conard (www.andrewconard.com) give a report on digital natives and digital ethnography for social workers at a local hospital. We talked about how the current young generation is fundamentally different from the one before it – how as young people we don’t disconnect, we don’t focus on one thing at a time, and we don’t power down. Digital culture is going to transform the way we do almost everything – including preaching and teaching in the Church.
Here’s a few resources we used for research:
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants by Marc Prensky (http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf)
Every Video by Dr. Michael Wesch of Kansas State University (Go Wildcats!) -
In addition, we drew from our own experience with Social Media – the primary means of communication we have with most of the people who worship with Resurrection Online.
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Andrew Conard said,
August 7, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Bill – Thanks for the link! It was a good time and you did great.
pathways2ministry said,
August 9, 2010 at 11:37 am
Nice post.
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