Lesson 4

Bridging the Generation Gap

Bridging the Generation Gap is a lesson where it talks about the changes that our educational system is now experiencing. As to the educational technology advancement, schools 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 the generation from the 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.

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 generations
• ·         Alvin Toffler’s book, Future Shock, shows how the information age has begun to create many cultural changes