Past 30 years
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New Digital
Generation
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 · Students scan and have their books for reference or research. Research was a physical act. 
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Personal or face-to-face relationship.
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Children playing games with their friends in the field.
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Teachers have their traditional instructional materials
(cartolina, manila paper, chalk) in presenting the lesson.
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Teachers compute and write or record grades of the
students manually.
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People communicate using telegrams and letters.
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More conservative in the way they dressed up.
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 · Students have their laptops and computers with them in browsing in the internet for reference or research. In just a few clicks away they can get what they are looking for. 
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Screen-to-screen relationship.
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Computer games are the constant companions, and best
friends and become the field for many of this generation’s children.
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Teachers used technologies as their instructional
materials like powerpoint presentation in presenting their lesson.
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Teachers used Excel for computing and recording grades
of the students.
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People communicate using social media in the internet
and mobile phones.
 · Less conservative. |
This generation operates at what Marc
Prensky describes as “twitch speed”. A lot of changes happened, not just for
the things we’ve used but also the moral values and attitudes brought by these
technologies. The way we live our lives is affected by these changes. People
who were born 30 years ago are trying to cope with these changes. Learning the
new technologies step by step and also applying it with their lives today. With regards to
its advantages, in the field of teaching, the topics can be clearly presented
and understood with the use of different computer programs.
For the
students, learning now can be easier or possible to attain because of the wide
range of information in the internet and a new way of motivating students by
using instructional media in presenting the lesson. But on the negative side, students and
teachers can be misguided by its ideologies. Instead of being an agent of
positive change, it has become a barrier ever since the computer games and
social networking have overlapped the boundaries. For many of the people
30 years ago and our generation today, there was an amazing rhythm, and predictability
to life.
Change was something that happened, but it seemed to happen slowly. And
it wasn’t just that life was predictable - our lives were also much simpler. Nevertheless, the
evil and good side of technology all depends on man. He has the power to
control the technology or be controlled by it.
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