Prezi - The Challenge of Teaching the Hyperlinked Minds
Prezi - The Challenge of Teaching the Hyperlinked Minds

Summary/Abstract: The world we live today does not resemble the world we grew up in, and the world today is undoubtedly not the world our children and future students will live in. The histrionic fluctuations our world has experienced, technologically speaking, the digital generation students are not the students our institutes and universities were planned for and are not the students present day teachers were skilled to teach. Moreover “If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.” (West, 2013). Phones, nowadays, are not merely objects of conveying oral messages, they no longer serve this intended purpose, now, phones or smart phones are digital devices, with computer memory, satellite identification and wi fi structures incorporated, with running application, mini portable computers, which can access information from every corner of the world, from libraries and dictionaries with a single touch. The enquiry brought up in this paper tackles the ways teachers of the 21st century classroom master instruction in the assorted scenery and the how to we use technology and multi modal instruction to generate an attractive learning background. The definition of hyper-link in the Oxford dictionary states: “A link from a hypertext document to another location, activated by clicking on a highlighted word or image.” (https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/hyperlink). Today’s generation talks in hyper-links, greets and video calls in WhatsApp, shares pictures through Facebook or talks face to face using Skype and basically all and any of the technological resources accessible today: iPhones, iPads, digital textbooks, social media, blogs, vlogs, wikis. The challenge nowadays teachers face is to find the finest methods to fuse the traditional literacy with the innovative concept of plural literacies to prepare students for homogeneous assessments and life outside the seminar room.

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