"Digital Generation", Face Are We Ready?

EDUKASI- Technology can not be controlled. Google, Yahoo, Blogs, Wikipedia, Youtube, Facebook, and other names in the current Web 2.0 technologies as part of everyday students, protegeswe. Although only a day, without even a cell phone it was not calm their hearts. For a moment, without it all life seemed empty.

Simply through the fingers, everything was so easy and concise presented in front of the eye. SMS, camera, MP3/MP4 Player, Bluetooth, 3G, GPRS, GPS, and much more which makes them very easy to live day bythe day. By them, the world seemed smaller, because now it was clutched in his hand.

Social interaction was they went through without skipping technology. Cafe or hotspot cafes as "second home". Cafe no longer belong to adults, but "common property" them, which they routinely sambangi. That's where they often met, talked, and build social networks while sipping a glass of hot chocolate or coffee.

Difficult denied, as it seems most of our youth face today. Face, which in the 1980's past, may not have time or we never imagined would happen.

Yes, they are born and live in a digital world, a world that was adopted as part of daily life, learning styles, and social interaction. They are the generation of digital natives, native of the digital world. They, through his natural instincts, he could easily find a variety of information, learn and solve their own problems, and create a variety of creative innovation with all the knick-knacks technology.

EDUKASI- They enjoy digital music, play online too. They tend to like computers, pictures, animations, video, and then the final form of text documents.

They also appreciate his role as a multi-tasking. They liked the work done in a way and at the same time. While we, adults, are digital Immigrants. We are migrants in their digital world. We tend to like the information in paper form view a lot of text, pictures and videos before then.

Now, how do we (educators and parents) to address this phenomenon? What is the solution?

Authors: Mark Mardianto / Program Developer and Facilitator Pedagogy in the Sampoerna Foundation Teacher Institute