One of McLuhan's key concepts his book, The Gutenberg Galaxy 
was that how we learn fundamentally shapes how we think.
For those of us who were taught in a pre-digital age, we learned from books. In fact, since the age of print, learning has been primarily from books.
That learning from books was transformative for human society, igniting the Age of Enlightenment and ushering in modern nationalism and industrialism.
By its nature, this learning is inherently linear. There is a beginning, middle, and end for every book. One idea builds on the next, sequentially, until a conclusion.
It could be argued that this type of thinking develops that part of our mind that is analytical, what is know as the Central Executive Network .
It also can be called the scientific method and underpins the Cartesian Mindset.
How we learn shapes how we think.
But that is not how digital natives learn. They have never known a time where there was not the World Wide Web filled with information that is hyperlinked together. There is no single path of learning, instead, each person's path is self-defined.
Many of these digital natives don't learn linearly - mono-dimensionally. Instead, their learning process is far more spacial - multi-dimensional - as they jump from link to link.
I suspect that this type of thinking might be activating more of the Salience Network , that network that creates meaning by synthesizing contrasts - one that is dialectical in nature.