Taking a Journey with Today's Digital Kids: An Interview with Deneen Frazier Bowen

At the 2005 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Philadelphia, Deneen Frazier Bowen gave a keynote presentation entitled "The Natives Are Restless" in which she used her acting skills to portray a cast of characters who revealed students’ struggles to connect school with "real life." Co-author of The Internet for Your Kids (1997) and a former educational software design consultant and K-12 academic technology coordinator, her unusual presentation demonstrated considerable insight about how to engage the digital mindset and creative energy of young people. I interviewed her after the presentation.