Lesson
5
Preferences
of the Technology Generation
As
society evolves, so do were the people particularly the learners. Today’s
generation is referred as “Technology Generation” integrated to the industrial revolution
and the swift technological advancements. We cannot deny the fact that there
occurs the so called “generation gap” between the young and the older
generations due to their different preferences thus, it is important in the
field of education to know and recognize the varying preferences of the
learners. The table below shows the contrasting preferences of the old and the
new generation.
Table 1. Preferences
of the Old and New Generation
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I would also consider myself belonging to the new generation of
learners. I started to learn operating the computer and cellphones when I was
in kindergarten. I spend most of my time at my grandparents’ house who owned a
desktop computer and had student boarders. As a kid, I usually play games on
the computer and constantly borrows on the cellphones of the boarders. Nobody
taught me how to operate these gadgets instead, I just watched and observed the
people around me and imitate what they were doing and eventually I just noticed
myself manipulating these gadgets at my own free will. I started to acquaint
myself in internet surfing at elementary, owned my first cellphone at grade 5.
In grade three, I transferred schooling in a rural area somewhere in Don Carlos
Bukidnon where I can say that their mode of teaching the students was more on
traditional method: gardening classes, spending most of our time in values
education or vocational classes, we mostly read the books or copy what was
written on the board until my hands were swollen, the teachers gave more focus
on how the students would pass the tests and the rewards were given at the end
of the school year through awarding of medals, ribbons and certificates. I
could recall that I felt being sent to a primitive civilization for a
punishment of some sort. I easily get bored in classes, lost my interest at
school and preferred to cut class to watch movies at home or play games.
As
I reflect at my experiences as a future educator, I felt the importance of
discussing the differences in perceptions between the different generations and
find methods to mitigate the occurring generation gap. Educators should be open
minded to the changes brought by time, learn to become accustomed and
accommodate to the products of change in our society and in the educational
system. Teachers should never be held up of their pasts but rather ride to the
modernizations and try to understand the different perspectives of the
learners.
As
an application of what I had learned from this lesson, flexibility and
creativity is a must for the teachers to blend into the effects brought about
by constant global changes.
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