Lesson 4: Bridging the Generation Gap

Florrrie Jane M. Suralta                                                                                                                         BSEd- GS4

MW 3-5 pm

Lesson 4: Bridging the Generation Gap

CONTENT

It is observable that there are differences with the older generation with the new generation in many ways. These includes the way of clothing, way of communication, and even in showing affection towards others. Even in educational system there is also what is termed as generation gap. This gap was caused by many factors such as race, culture, and to what country do you belong. In educational system, many schools remain to be traditional despite the rising of the digital world. This is common to countries that belong to the third world. Those countries that are having low- economic stability that also affects their educational system. The rise of technology or much known as the Information and Communication Technology has potentials that were also one of the reasons there was a gap between the traditional school and the digital one. ICT helps people communicate with each other even across to other countries or overseas because of its global communication or networking. Old technologies are vanishing because they are replaced with new technologies that were more useful than them. This gap became a problem to traditional schools because students may lose interest in going to school because of the absence of technology.

EXPERIENCE

In school or even in our community, it can be observed the gap between our parents and to us, the new generation. Because there are things that our parents does not know how to use or operate such as new gadgets. This affects the relationship among family members. During high school, our school is a traditional one. We are not allowed to use the laboratory apparatus and students that can use or have access with internet and computers are limited. This affected me because from a traditional world, I shifted to the digital world and I find it difficult to adapt the new environment.

REFLECTION

As future teachers, we should help to bridge this generation gap with our students. That is why we need to be knowledgeable with modern technology so that we will not be left behind with our new generation learners. It is undeniable that they learn more than we do because they are more curious to discover new things. We must know our roles as future teachers to avoid this gap to widen.

APPLICATION

As much as possible, involve the technology in our daily lessons. For our students to learn as well as ourselves. For the students to be interested to learn, we should have activities that would cater their interests and also providing them projects that would allow them to use multimedia. Schools should also make sure that the things needed by the students to have an active learning should be provided.