Net Generation: Visions for their Education

• Main Author: Sandra Davila
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Fundación Unamuno 2006-04-01
• Series: Revista Orbis
• Online Access: http://ojs.revistaorbis.org.ve/index.php/orbis/article/view/295

This study discusses the changes that are demanded in the conception and culture of the learning, focuses the attention on the effect that the new digital environments have cause on the person, the education and the society. The main reflection is over the digital culture that characterizes to the Net generation (people that had from zero to 20 years for the year 1999) and their requirements of knowing or knowledge and of how to learn that knowledge today and always. This research was carried out a bibliographical and documental revision. The information makes us meditate about the change of the traditional transmission learning to the interactive learning defendant in the digital environments; they involve a new culture of educational system, of teaching and learning, where this responsible the own individual, the family and the society. This will contribute with the understanding, acceptance, adaptation, use, development and life in an interconnected world, digital and communicated globally.