Lesson 4

Lesson 4

Bridging the Generation Gap

Bridging the generation gap is a lesson where it talks about the changes that our educational educational system is now experiencing. As to the educational technology advancement, school from progressive countries are fortunate enough compared to our country, the Philippines. 

Technologies, are actually well-known to us but not all are 

able to use any of those because of poverty and scarcity of 

resources. Although , there are still those well- off people or 

school who can exploit it and that they are lucky because 

there is something which can help them in their studies.

  By,that to bridge the gap of generation from traditional to the modern one, information and communication technology ( ICT) was introduced .Through this, we as a developing country will be globally competitive as to the advancement in 
terms of technology. because educational system is now adapting this for the 
common good of the new generation learners.

  In the field of education, a huge generation gap also exists and it will 
continue to widen unless some changes are adopted at the proper time. In 
peasant third world countries where schools don’t have technogy facilities , it 
is undestandable that the transition to digital education may take time.But 
given the rapid emergence of digital technology (ICT), there is the need to 
prepare for bridging the digital in society l. First, we need to understand the 
potentials of ICT.

The new network of instantaneous communication is global, overcoming borders between countries and continents

Much of what elders believe may not be applicable anymore to the new generation, especially along matters of traditional value systems.

Alvin Toffler’s book, Future shock, shows how the information age has begun to create many cultural changes in the family, societies, bussinesses, governments such as what he calls the throw-away society, modular man , kinetic image, scientific trajectory, fractured family, surfeit of subcults, psychological dimensions, etc.

Since the new generations are expected to face a future professional challenge of a digital world ahead of them, technology- supported skills need to be taught in schools today, or else schools wil become a white elephant. If schools fail to respond to emergent changes and needs, new learners may lose appreciation of the educational system, and drop out of schools, as surveys show an increasing drop-out rate every year. Learning at home and availing digital learning systems like tge Open Universities may save the day, but the situation remains bleak for schools stodily adhering  to the old educational system.