LESSON 3: UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY LEARNERS

Today’s learners appear smarter, yet they can’t read as their parents do and they are addicted to the Internet.

Addicted in Internet

      The  new generation of the 21st millennium is not the kind of learner that they were, but are information technology or digital learners.

   Lest the concern for new learners is not well understood, it serves to know what scientists say, as follows:

1. There are positive benefits derived from the use of information technology or digital resources and these counterbalance possible negative effects of technology on children.

   

   Positive Benefits Using IT

2. Daily exposure to high technology-personal computers, video game gadgets, cell phones, Internet search, sites-stimulates the brain by strengthening and creating neural circuits. 

   

   Exposure To High Technology

3. A current technological revolution is creating an intellectual revolution, faster and better than ever before.