Friday, January 8, 2016

Lesson 3: Understanding Technology Learners

Today’s learners appear smarter because they are really hands-on in using the computer and any other kinds of Technology and they become alive because of these technologies used in classrooms. But they can’t read as their parents do.

            The concern for new learners is valid. Because teachers nowadays generally use the traditional way of teaching and not seeing the side that the way they teach is not applicable anymore because of the digital world. It is also observed that today’s learners spend too much time in using their gadgets and any kinds of technology that is likely to be the advantage of it. But the learner’s today is not well understood because daily exposure to these technologies has positive effects; it stimulates the brain by strengthening and creating neural circuits and creating an intellectual revolution.

            From Jean Piaget’s presented chart from childhood to adulthood, learners experienced having susceptible minds in the first two years where they are easily influenced or affected by something or someone. They are acquiring communication skills on six years. There is a transition of concrete thinking in teenage years and we experienced abstract thinking and reasoning in adult years. By that presented chart, even in their early years, they can easily adapt to the new technologies and even enhance it until they are getting older.

The influence of technology is rapid, life changing and phenomenon. Learners or the younger generation is practiced on the multi- tasking as they perform task simultaneously. Researchers made an evidence that multitasking prevents from concentration but is still used because of the new world of information technology. There is the need therefore to balance the good and possibly detrimental changes observed among new learners of this information technology age.

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