Interactions between teacher and students have changed radically with the advent of globalization and technological revolution. Students born in the digital age are well tuned with technology and new communication technology. They are no longer the students our education system was designed to instruct. They are ‘Digital Natives’1 (Prensky) or ‘Residents’2 (White) who detest slow, step-by-step, lecture oriented and serious instruction. Teachers are not so techno-savvy and well adapt with the technology. They are ‘Digital Immigrants’1 (Prensky) or Visitors2 (White) who are still suspicious of the technology and its utility in the classroom. The present paper tries to discuss the interactions between these two people belonging to different generations, the difficulties they face and possible solutions to bridge this generation gap by comparing the typologies introduced by Marc Prensky and David White.
Sharad Binnor (2015) studied this question.