Authors :
Sonia Verma
Volume/Issue :
Volume 7 - 2022, Issue 9 - September
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DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7133888
Abstract :
The educators and administrators in India
have always engaged themselves to look at the causes of
the difficulty in reaching out to the young students. After
the pandemic the digital divide among the young and the
millennial generation widened in India. As an educator
with an administrative tool in my hand I have tried to
identify the causes because behind my search would lie the
answers to how the gap can be bridged? The paper hints
at a few solutions so that the divide caused after the
pandemic due to the entry of senior teachers into the
digital world at different ages is resolved and the gap is
bridged.
Hypothesis: In India the pandemic was the catalyst
to the leap into the land of digital world in the education
world. The chalk and challenge were the only tools that
teachers used. Most schools have 60% of the staff aged
above forty and not very tech savvy who lack fluency in
the use of digital devices. This paper works on a
hypothesis that there is no rigid demarcation between
Netizens also called digital natives and digital immigrants
rather there is a possibility of a continuum. Digital fluency
is lacking among those who entered into the digital arena
in their forties. The Generation Y. Their ability to use
digital devices is dependent on the frequency of their use
and upon the need to reformulate knowledge and deduce
information so that they can express themselves
creatively and appropriately in a digital environment.The
natives however are those who just need to lay their hands
on the device and its use comes to them automatically. The
present day student : Kindergarten through college –
represent the first of its kind generation which has grown
up in this technological era.They have spent their entire
life of about 30 years on this earth surrounded by and
using computers, video games, age.
The educators and administrators in India
have always engaged themselves to look at the causes of
the difficulty in reaching out to the young students. After
the pandemic the digital divide among the young and the
millennial generation widened in India. As an educator
with an administrative tool in my hand I have tried to
identify the causes because behind my search would lie the
answers to how the gap can be bridged? The paper hints
at a few solutions so that the divide caused after the
pandemic due to the entry of senior teachers into the
digital world at different ages is resolved and the gap is
bridged.
Hypothesis: In India the pandemic was the catalyst
to the leap into the land of digital world in the education
world. The chalk and challenge were the only tools that
teachers used. Most schools have 60% of the staff aged
above forty and not very tech savvy who lack fluency in
the use of digital devices. This paper works on a
hypothesis that there is no rigid demarcation between
Netizens also called digital natives and digital immigrants
rather there is a possibility of a continuum. Digital fluency
is lacking among those who entered into the digital arena
in their forties. The Generation Y. Their ability to use
digital devices is dependent on the frequency of their use
and upon the need to reformulate knowledge and deduce
information so that they can express themselves
creatively and appropriately in a digital environment.The
natives however are those who just need to lay their hands
on the device and its use comes to them automatically. The
present day student : Kindergarten through college –
represent the first of its kind generation which has grown
up in this technological era.They have spent their entire
life of about 30 years on this earth surrounded by and
using computers, video games, age.
