Today’s afternoon I found a very interesting article
on one of my student’s books when I was preparing the material I was going to
teach him –by the way, he is studying something related to technology too. So,
I took a moment to read it and I decided to write something about it.
In a few words, the article pointed out that there is always
a difference between one generation and the next –-this is considered to be a
gap. In the past, these differences were usually limited to clothes, music, or
style. Nowadays, however, technology is taken part of these factors,
contributing to expand much more this so-called gap.
Why is this happening? Today’s young generations were
born in the digital age and have grown up with new technology. Internet, computers,
e-mails, cellphones, social networking, and text messaging are all part of
their everyday lives –Ok, shame on me because I don’t belong to this group! What’s the evidence? According to some studies in the U.S, teenagers send 2,272
text messages in just one month, and 70% of 15-17 year old girls have created
and use a social networking profile.
How does this create the “generation gap”? Given the explanation
provided above, teenagers are considered as “digital natives”. In the same way,
older people are referred to as “digital immigrants”, because they grew up
without technology; therefore, they must get familiar with it in order to learn
to use it. Besides, there is evidence that supports the idea that old and young
people process information differently because of the way their brain works.
As a consequence, teenagers are more likely to use
lots of different technologies in their day-to-day life and they can often do
three or more things at the same time; in other words, they can multitask — that’s
not entirely true!
On the contrary, here there is a video that reveals
the disappearance of the generation gap. What do you think about it?
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