Tuesday, July 1, 2014

The difference between Past 30 years generation from the New Digital Generation



Way of Socialization
Way of Communication
Way of Dressing
Way of Accessing Information
Way of Teaching



Past 30 Years Generation
-The way of socializing is through attending fiestas, “bayle”, or the old way of dancing with others publicly. Socializing is limited to people who can attend the bayle or fiestas.
-The ways of communication are through telegrams, telegraphs or through mailing that takes much time before one can receive the message.




-In the old times, woman are ought to dress as long as they could to protect their dignity and avoid issues, and men are wearing “barong”, to show their dignity. Both of the gender are conservative in nature.
-In the context of information access in the old generation, all the information is limited in paper works such as books, newspaper, flyers, etc.

-The teachers in the past 30 years impose the traditional method in the teaching process, where student’s role is just to listen to the teacher’s lecture. Teachers follows the philosophy of Essentialism where the teacher is the sole source of information, focuses on the development of basic knowledge.





New Digital Generation
-In the new generation, the creations of facebook, twitter, multiply and other social networking sites pave the way of creating a new medium of socializing others around the globe.
-Through the invention of sophisticated gadgets such as telephone and mobile phones, the way of exchanging messages becomes more handy and the messages passed could be received in a split seconds through texting or calling.
-In the new generation, women wear short skirts, and other sexy outfits to show their pride of being a woman, while men wear ragged jeans, polo shirts, t-shirts and others to show that they’re handsome and for fashion purposes.
-Google, Yahoo search, Firefox and other softwares created to provide limitless virtual information, providing all the information that you want to know around the world.
-The contemporary teachers employ a freer atmosphere in learning where the teacher serves as a guide in the learning process of the students. They integrate ICT in the learning process and follow the philosophy of constructivism where it stresses out the effectiveness of “learning by doing”.
To add more details regarding the difference between the two generation, you may watch this video:


No comments:

Post a Comment