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The Importance Of Living In The Digital Age

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In the last century, there were 4 societal paradigm shifts. We can divide them into agricultural, industrial, information and digital ages. Every mentioned age has the special characteristic in every aspect of human life so as in education.
Educational research blossomed after World War II (industrial age). In new social, after war order, education and learning started to affect society on multiple levels: social, political, sociological, etc. The predominant form of work in industrial age was manual labor (Charles & Reigeluth, 2012), so the main pedagogical goals were related to basic literacy (reading, writing, arithmetic) while all others sorts of knowledge were neglected.
Today we are living in the digital age (Resnick, 2002),(J. S. Brown, 2000) which requires completely different skills. From information age towards digital age changes are mutually dependent. An industry is no longer key economic element, a number of “white collars” exceeded the number of “blue collars” (Huitt, 1999, 2007). These days’ students are representing the generation that was raised up with technology, surrounded by computers, smartphones, …show more content…

By further progress in technology and virtualization of products “intellectual capital” becomes important to keep and maintain personal value on the job market. These rapid changes have resulted in significant changes in learning outcomes and skills. Despite that, today’s curriculums are not crucially diverse in comparison to industrial age curriculum, even though other competencies are required (Cornu, 2011; Prensky, 2010), (Watson & Reigeluth, 2008). Main competencies required for the next (today’s!) generation of professions is related to using technology, acquiring problem-solving skills and complex communication ability (Levy & Murnane, 2005) all required for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)

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