We may think that we are dwelling at the same era with our kids. We share the same time we may think. Yet, we couldn’t be so wrong. The perception of history, trends, life we and our peers have and kids of our time and their peers have couldn’t be more different. We tend to understand the generation gap vaguely, but not its consequences and effects on our way of being and acting in this world. Our kids, our students were born in another time than ours, and it’s significant and has an immense effect on education.

As a teacher or parent, we have no excuse to not know computer or internet-based technologies I believe. Or, we can’t shun ourselves from the matters of today. The best way to tap into another’s time would be to let them speak. Let your students speak, act and collaborate; learn from them as well as learn with them. Then, the rest would follow.