Contributors produce an international overview of developments in digital literacy among young learners, offering innovative paths between traditional narratives that offer only complete acceptance or total dismissal of digital natives.

ch. 1. Technology, education, and the discourse of the digital native : between Evangelists and dissenters / Michael Thomas -- Part I. Reflecting on the myth -- ch. 2. Digital wisdom and homo sapiens digital / Marc Prensky -- ch. 3. Students, the net generation, and digital natives : accounting for educational change / Chris Jones -- Part II. Perspectives -- ch. 4. Disempowering by assumption : "digital natives" and the EU Civic Web Project / Shakuntala Banaji -- ch. 5. Japanese youth and mobile media / Toshic Takalmshi -- ch. 6. Analyzing Students' multimodal texts : the product and the process / Mike Levy and Rowan Michael -- ch. 7. Citizens navigating in literate worlds : the case of digital literacy / Ola Erstad -- ch. 8. Beyond Google and the "satisficing" searching of digital natives / Gregor E. Kennedy and Terry S. Judd -- ch. 9. Actual and perceived online participation among young people in Sweden / Sheila Zimic and Rolf Dalin -- ch. 10. Young children, digital technology, and interaction with text / Rachael Levy -- Part III. Beyond digital natives -- ch. 11. Intellectual field or faith-based religion : moving on from the idea of "digital natives" / Sue Bennett and Karl Maton -- ch. 12. Reclaiming an awkward term : what we might learn from "digital natives" / John Palfrey and Urs Gasser.