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Date Posted: 14:41:51 03/12/11 Sat
Author: Vivi
Subject: Task 3

The youth born from 1987 on is considered the digital ganeration.It means that those young people grew up in a Digital Era and are guided by eletronic devices. That is, they are used to using mobile phones, computers,I pads,I pods.They get in touch with their friends through cell phones and mainly through the internet. Text messages are the main tool used by them to commmunicate with each other.This new generation has already created a new language that facilitate their digital lives.
This Digital Generation gets information easily and fastly.According to Mark Prensky(2001) they are called “Digital Natives” because they grew up with techgnology development, that’s why their world is vast. They can solve every problem easily and promptly. But the point is educators are not “Digital Natives” but “Digital immigrants” who according to Prensky,” are coming to this new land”. Land of technology and quick information.Educators have faced a a big trouble trying to cope with the new generation which is hungry for technology and fell the traditional teaching method obsolete.
Using blackboards and text books do not keep their attention anymore.But educators think they are lazy and do not want to learn.It is commom to see teachers complaining about their students as not responsive, as feeble minded and mainly as hyperactive.What educators should keep in mind is that the new generation of students has changed a lot comparing with those of Twenty years ago.They, absolutely, can not stand sitting in a desk just looking at the board and taking notes. Actually educators must change their ways of teaching becoming close to technology and using new tools in order to enrich their classes to better fit students demand.

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