Education and Cultural Change Technology
Monday, March 14, 2011
Grandes Tetas America
As some know I have about a year and a half I'm not in a position of "youth leadership" in a church, but refocusing during a period of time, my efforts to learn a little more youth culture (specifically teenagers) but from a different perspective, secondary education, participating as a teacher in a school.
Within this time no doubt I have learned many things and have made many mistakes and now want to share with you some of what I learned about the cultural and technological change being experienced, and a focused perspective "Christian teachers" how to face it:
created a need for youth to foster relationships between students, and teens are in a formative stage in their life, but we must take into account as "Christian educators" what profile we want to be in each student?, we are preparing to face a world that does not exist at this time so the first thing we should consider is the cultural change that are living our generations.
Within this could start
talking about the technology gappresented in this generation, now we face the changed information technologies which are social networking, communications as Skype, video calls, telephony, among other things. This change which we live helps us to understand that our youth every day wrapped in a "sub-real" in which the need to physically see a person for a "personal relationship" down and replaced by the meet a person by way of being virtual, this is an imminent change can not stop, even if we teach our young people to engage in school (blocking and putting a taboo to these electronic media, as is currently done in some educational institutions), they will face this once leaving our four walls, so we must adapt our strategies
this change occurs.
On the other hand we have to consider how God made us different people, each one individually, so there is in each student an individuality
of what he is, which is determined not only by a belief system
such as the education they received at home, socioeconomic status, friendships, social, inter alia,
but is genetically determined in many areas, so that there are people talking about kinesthetic, auditory, etc. factor that as human beings have certain "social preferences" to be surrounded by people, which does not mean that a bad thing, but it is something natural, so we must learn to deal with each of the "subgroups" promoting their individual characteristics that create this gap between themselves, stand out as an organic complement to a group that must work as one.
Each of our body parts are composed of millions of particles that make up our organs, the liver can not compare with our eyes or our hearts, because they are shaped by many different parts of micro parts only, but working together as an organization achieve the wonderful performance that we know today as human beings. Surely God was wise to give this design, I think that is what we must understand that all "subgroups" make strategic parts that we must learn to use to produce
an organic development, not uniform, but unanimous.(Of course this requires more work from each teacher to learn to deal with each "subgroup" giving them an intimate understanding, as something to which teachers do not know if we are willing to pay the price)
I think as educational institutions, which we call ourselves Christians, we have begun to fall into a "Agoraphobia" 1 (Greek, Agora: Public Square where the ancient Greeks met to discuss and debate and Phobia: fear or fear) in the sense of trying to restrict the individuality of students, forcing them to educational training is not relevant to when they go to discuss and debate the "market" (the next educational level).
This is just a clear call to come out of our idiom of education and understand that this cultural change we live requires a technological transformation, social and ideological, but mostly takes courage and time.
God help us to see beyond what we messed up the new generations seem to realize that God designed them to impact their generation time.
1. term used in the Junior Zapata book titled "Agoraphobia."
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