O desafio de educar a geração nascida na era digital

Abstract

The contemporary confers many challenges to the education of children in our day, driven by the performance and interference of technological explosion in recent times. Education meanwhile, is an ally in fostering the skills needed to use information technology and communication, as well as ownership significantly to the process of teaching and learning in the process of an effective production of integral development of small. The generation born in this was called the Digital found in the literature a wide variety of terms used to name them, such as "Digital Natives", "Homo Zappiens", "Cibernativos" among others, which constitute a major challenge educators who are responsible for the formation of this generation. Given these implications, this study addresses through a bibliographical study the digital age and the generation born in the context of the information society, which takes place in cyberspace with the spread of cyberculture. We find in this work some authors that were fundamental to the understanding of the most fruitful on the subject addressed, among whom Vrakking and Veen (2009), Cosenza (2011), Folque (2011), Palfrey and Gasser (2011), Camboim (2010), Staa (2011), Cosenza (2011), these and other authors argue that technologies have strongly marked the development of the children of the new generation, fully influencing the form of learning and teaching in this scenario. As a result of the use of technological tools childhood has been configured with other specificities, producing children who learned to perform more than one task simultaneously. In this light appear important repercussions on the way to learn and relate to, considering the active and critical participation of children. The research to be carried out through literature review based on the hypothesis that ICTs have transformed childhood in the digital age, trying to understand the universe of children's world, associated with the use of technology to benefit from an education that enables the intelligent use of these resources favoring the development of the generation born in this digital age. We conclude the work considering that we still have few studies on the subject, yet some critical reflections on the state of the art of the bibliography led us to realize that the ways of learning should legitimize the unique nature of childhood in tandem with the competent use of new information technologies and communication, as the children come in contact with different media from an early age and this should be considered in their training and learning process.