PROFILE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL LEARNER in the 21st century

Prensky (2010) states that “Today’s students will not live in a world where things change relatively slowly (as many of us did) but rather in a future where things change extremely rapidly—daily and exponentially. So today’s teachers need to be sure that, no matter what subject they are teaching, they are teaching it with that future in mind”.

Teaching teenagers is a challenge for the majority of teachers. Students at that age are changing physically, coping with strong emotions, building their values, their identity.

Currently, we are facing new types of learners. They were born to the digital era; they live in a world of images, sounds, constant exposure to the latest information. This is also reflected in the way they perceive and elaborate the information. They belong to the so-called Generation Z, also called iGen (see the figure below).