We thank Juan Silva from Chile for this very interesting article
Juan is a professor of mathematics and computation, Master in Computer Engineering from the University of Santiago de Chile (USACH) and Doctor of Pedagogy in the Educational Multimedia program from the University of Barcelona. He is an academic of the Department of Education and Coordinator of the virtual training area of the Comenius Center of the USACH. He teaches the subjects of pedagogical use of ICT for students of general basic pedagogy and master in education, directs projects in the area of educational informatics, Area in which he publishes books, book chapters and articles, and makes presentations at conferences. Additionally, he advises public and private organizations, Universities and Schools so that teachers integrate ICT in their More Information practices.
Educate in the era of Digital Natives
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) 
Marck Prensky who coined the concept of digital natives, titled a lecture he gave in Chile in 2009 "Love me or lose me", to refer to the challenge presented to teachers by Digital Natives and how to do it to reach them and enchant them, being One of the strategies is integrating Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as a support resource for Education and creating learning environments that favor contextualized learning, significant both personally and collaboratively.
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Who are the Digital Natives?
The concept of Digital Natives, as well as Generación Red, Apprentices of the new millennium, among others. Mentions children and young people who were born or born in the digital age, for which the use of technologies is common, they do not conceive of a world without technologies. For them its use is not something new, innovative, nor less technological is something normal, for them the technologies are invisible. Those born in the nineties are considered part of this generation. In this context, the rest of us are digital immigrants, because we have had to adapt and integrate technologies.
Learn autonomously and ... curiously more empathically
Coincidentally these digital natives are part of a new generation, more committed to the environment, caring for the world, animals, people, as we see are new people called to transform the world with their ideals and where ICTs play a important role because they use them to inform, communicate, organize, entertain, research and learn autonomously.
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Students 2.0 protagonists and co-creators
Some speak of the 2.0 student to associate these digital natives and the school system. The above to relate students to the use of ICT tools that they use constantly and transparently, Cellular, PDA, Twitter, Facebook, Messenger, Skype, Blogs, Wikis, which are framed within the paradigm of Web 2.0 or social web which conceives the Web as a dynamic, participatory and collaborative space, where users become active protagonists, creating and sharing content, reviewing, participating, relating, contrary to the static Web, in which the user had a passive role, merely observer and consumer of content.
Adults 1.0 liabilities and consumers
The adults come from the web 1.0 that is associated with the transmissive model of knowledge, hence some talk about education or school 1.0 and teacher 1.0, the digital natives live and develop in the context of web 2.0, then they need teachers and schools that respond to this logic. Teachers and schools are called to establish bridges between the formal education that occurs in the school and the informal education that occurs on the Web. Anyway, if not, these natives will continue to learn and prepare for the future accompanied by their inseparable friends Web 2.0 and the devices that allow access to the Internet, Cellular, Portable, NetBook, PC, etc.
Learn in groups and with technology
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in a study conducted in its member countries in the context of what they call apprentices of the new millennium, concluded that students want to learn in groups, doing practical tasks, working with friends and using technology, in the same order, as we see the technologies are not the center are another resource that allow them to expand the social and academic dimensions.
They want to learn in groups, doing practical tasks, working with friends and using technology.
The question that many teachers ask is why integrate ICT into teaching? For a very simple reason because they are part of the world that students live outside the classroom, creatively using ICT, integrated as another resource within the classroom, allows us to bring these two worlds closer together. The ICTs give the teacher the opportunity to reenchant not only the students but also the teachers with the profession. In these new scenarios, a change in the role of the teacher of a teacher that transmits knowledge to an orchestrator of learning environments, a facilitator, a tutor who guides and accompanies the student and the course group in the adventure of learning is expected. Technologies are not the center, they are not magical, it is the teacher who can do magic with them, creating environments of face-to-face and virtual learning.
“Children don't want to go out for recess”
ICTs give us the opportunity to learn from children of young people, they know much more about their use than adults, they allow the teacher to move from the board to the room to support their students' work, they allow students to take the teacher role and teach their classmates. A class with ICT is motivating, entertaining, it is different, something happens that is very curious "children do not want to go to recess" and on the other hand and this brings us closer to them, the teacher who knows about ICT and uses them in their classes Improves communication with students.
I am convinced that the great educators of yesterday and today, would be supporters and would promote the use of ICT, as a resource to mediate the teaching-learning process, they would be building digital materials and using the potential of Internet in education, multimedia applications, video games, social networks, blogs, wikis, ultimately the web 2.0.
Finally, as teachers, as parents, who prefer to love them or lose them? I bet to love them and you ?, If you want to have clues on how to do it, here we already deliver some that we will deepen in the next number.
Contact:
Juan Silva
University of Santiago, Chile
Faculty of Humanities
56-2-7184686
56-2- 7180340
Las Sophoras 175 Central Station
Santiago
Chile
