Bridging The Generation Gap of the Students of the Future Generation Y and Z.

According to Alicia S. Bustos, Ed.D and Socorro C. Espiritu, Ph.D in their book of Foundations of Education 1 that "the problem of meeting adequately all the needs of a learner in education becomes the task of the teacher".

In view for this, I believe that this task should be effectively accomplished. Hence, the teacher has to be aware of the nature and extent of learners' differences.

Talking about learners' differences, the teacher then should know how these divergent factors affect the teaching and learning process. Since this wide-spread differences among learners should be considered, there it comes the scene in bridging the generation to another generation.

One  concrete example is the gap between the students of generation Y and of the generation Z. And of course, the question now is "How will a teacher builds a bridge, linking the both generation?" But before that let me share first the distinction of the two:

Generation Y

Those people born in years 1977-1994 are referred to as Generation Y. Generation Y kids are recognized as incredibly sophisticated and technology wise. These kids are much more racially and ethnically diverse and more segmented as an audience aided by the fast expansion of cable TV, radio, internet, etc.

Generation Z

Those born between the years of 1995-2011 are referred to as the Generation Z. Many members of this generation are highly connected, having had a lifelong use of communication and media technology like the world wide web, instant messaging, MP3 players and mobile phones, earning them the nickname "digital natives".

Given the disparities of the two generation, it obviously shows the wide segregated existence of gadgets during their times. However, it was also presented that though the Generation Y is  mainly called technology wise and the Generation Z is digital natives still it talks about data processing devices, wherein teachers must used in order to cross to one generation to another generation.

I place confidence that through these Data Processing Devices, I could build a responsive and secured bridge to my differing learners, whether it is generation y or generation z. I am a teacher and I am willing to adopt learning materials and teaching techniques that will help my students attain the maximum success in any learning situation.

Through the support of these data processing devices and buttoned up with my cabled inventiveness in creating worthwhile experiences, I say so that this will be justifiable in structuring connections between the Y Learners and the Z learners.