The digital information Age: Who are our students and teachers?
Marc Prensky describes the differences between digital natives and digital immigrants. Prensky talks in his postulates about how students today feel discouraged by the way how we, the teachers do not use technological means appropriately to get to meet your needs. Children, who are born in this new age already have a digital knowledge and every day are more advanced, while the teachers are always fighting to use the technology, they only turn on the computer to type workshops and jobs that are sent to collect. Education 21st century requires that teachers will be people better prepared in terms of technological and digital knowledge.
The digital technology is creating new technological devices every day, practical for the life and to be used in the teaching-learning process. Today's students do not feel motivated to be in class because we do not stop being chalk and board teachers. Teachers do not allow our students to use technological devices in the class room without understanding that this may be the best option for that they learn using the most assertively way for them. We have to keep up with the digital age since this will be important for future education
Teens handle all kinds of digital devices, which come to trade, they learn to play and make the best of these devices, becoming to be great help for the same teacher who feels cornered because, he is not able to use that new technologies offer.
New technologies have become a fundamental part of digital natives as they were born surrounded by technology, them dedicated to using social pages and all the tools that technology offers. During the most part of their life, they have become addicted to technology, but, digital immigrants could not allow us that digital fever to give a change to the new educational trends
This is a situation that school leaders have to face, since they are who obstruct the work of teachers, because they do not delegate functions in others and they always want to be the center of everything, to be the protagonists, knowing that this role is for the students who are the product of good teaching-learning process According to the tenets of Claire Raines and Ingersoll, there is a great potential for new teachers, full of qualities and preparing to improve the education system, the characteristics proposed by them for millennial teachers are: intelligent, knowledgeable technology, tolerant, confident, optimistic, civically oriented not only change, but, also aimed to achieve the goals and objectives proposed. They are good and committed to the assigned tasks According to these features, Raines, defines six requirements that every leader or boss should keep in mind for the employee of the millennium. These requirements are: Leadership: Millennials look for models to serve as a reference, though; they already come with some models established since the formation of their parents. They want to participate and manage projects to allow them satisfy their needs. Challenges: Millennials want to learn from all those who generates expectations and to leads them feeling challenged, so it is necessary that the different work carried receive opportunity to demonstrate their potential Collaboration: Millennials want to work with people to do collaborative work, people respectful of differences and good relationship, as it is evident in our job, that, collaborative work allows develop better learning environments. Fun: Millennials are cheerful, fun people, who likes a pleasant working environment, where a bit of irreverence and laughter fasten the good ties of friendship, also enjoying what they do. Respect: they must be treated with respect and receive equal treatment than other people older or more senior. Flexibility: it must be a schedule fair and flexible work for any eventuality that may arise such as when there is the possibility to do qualifications studies to be better prepared or when a difficulty at home and the employee is sure that this situation will not affect your labor welfare Raines, argues that if a leader or boss does not want to lose a good worker, he / she must implement these requirements because otherwise he / she could lose him
According to the National Education Association more than two millions of teachers are needed to cover the large number of students income our schools, this is because in this millennium, a lot of teachers are retiring education. Many of these teachers entering new to work in education, they are part of the millennial generation, people with new ideas, self-confident, innovative, optimistic, with achievements and goals, some digital natives and other digital immigrants, with new ideas, ready to generate necessary changes in methodologies and strategies for a good teaching-learning process, but this will only be possible depending of the principal and mainly educational leaders, since it is necessary to improve wages teachers and make large investments in technology accessories, because the 21th century education demands it When these guarantees are not given, teachers feel unmotivated, this has been a big problem in Colombia, because the schools of education tend to disappear due to poor remuneration of teachers and this is demotivating, so people cannot decide to enter the teaching profession also it is necessary to rethink the education system because it is impossible to make a good teaching-learning process when in a classroom, there are groups of 45 to 50 students with great social, family and indiscipline problems. It is clear that the demand to labor in education is extensive, but is more noticeable lack of motivation of new teachers.
HOW TO LEAD THE MILLENNIAL GENERACION
This is a situation that school leaders have to face, since they are who obstruct the work of teachers, because they do not delegate functions in others and they always want to be the center of everything, to be the protagonists, knowing that this role is for the students who are the product of good teaching-learning process According to the tenets of Claire Raines and Ingersoll, there is a great potential for new teachers, full of qualities and preparing to improve the education system, the characteristics proposed by them for millennial teachers are: intelligent, knowledgeable technology, tolerant, confident, optimistic, civically oriented not only change, but, also aimed to achieve the goals and objectives proposed. They are good and committed to the assigned tasks According to these features, Raines, defines six requirements that every leader or boss should keep in mind for the employee of the millennium. These requirements are: Leadership: Millennials look for models to serve as a reference, though; they already come with some models established since the formation of their parents. They want to participate and manage projects to allow them satisfy their needs. Challenges: Millennials want to learn from all those who generates expectations and to leads them feeling challenged, so it is necessary that the different work carried receive opportunity to demonstrate their potential Collaboration: Millennials want to work with people to do collaborative work, people respectful of differences and good relationship, as it is evident in our job, that, collaborative work allows develop better learning environments. Fun: Millennials are cheerful, fun people, who likes a pleasant working environment, where a bit of irreverence and laughter fasten the good ties of friendship, also enjoying what they do. Respect: they must be treated with respect and receive equal treatment than other people older or more senior. Flexibility: it must be a schedule fair and flexible work for any eventuality that may arise such as when there is the possibility to do qualifications studies to be better prepared or when a difficulty at home and the employee is sure that this situation will not affect your labor welfare Raines, argues that if a leader or boss does not want to lose a good worker, he / she must implement these requirements because otherwise he / she could lose him
Who are our teachers?
According to the National Education Association more than two millions of teachers are needed to cover the large number of students income our schools, this is because in this millennium, a lot of teachers are retiring education. Many of these teachers entering new to work in education, they are part of the millennial generation, people with new ideas, self-confident, innovative, optimistic, with achievements and goals, some digital natives and other digital immigrants, with new ideas, ready to generate necessary changes in methodologies and strategies for a good teaching-learning process, but this will only be possible depending of the principal and mainly educational leaders, since it is necessary to improve wages teachers and make large investments in technology accessories, because the 21th century education demands it When these guarantees are not given, teachers feel unmotivated, this has been a big problem in Colombia, because the schools of education tend to disappear due to poor remuneration of teachers and this is demotivating, so people cannot decide to enter the teaching profession also it is necessary to rethink the education system because it is impossible to make a good teaching-learning process when in a classroom, there are groups of 45 to 50 students with great social, family and indiscipline problems. It is clear that the demand to labor in education is extensive, but is more noticeable lack of motivation of new teachers.
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