THE INHERITORS OF TECHNOLOGY AND THE TIME OF SUCCESS.

Byline: KHALIL AHMED

I t is staggering to see infants or toddlers to be precise using cell phones in more or less in every family globally. Parents are at times flabbergasted observing their kids using technology far better than them. Rather, parents seek knowledge from their kids regarding the use of information technology. Teenagers teach the use of technology to their parents almost everywhere. One may be astonished to see how these kids have learned and from where have they learned all this prevailing globally. Well, it is simply the exposure and the ever-changing trends being demonstrated by the forms of media and other technology means, which are rapidly adopted by the youngsters. They are the inheritors of technology. Two terms are being widely used these days when it comes to technology: inheritors (kids), migrators (parents or the older people). The kids of today have inherited the technology by default.

The millennial generation inherited and are accustomed to the use of technology in every walk of their lives vis-avis their parents. The internet generation cannot function rather can't live a single day without technological gadgets since they depend on the device for everything right from communication to liaison to perform even very trivial tasks. Technology is the second name of their meal since they can't survive without it.

Infusing technology into the current education system is the need of the hour. There are hundreds of educational institutions even today where traditional methods of learning are being adopted and the kids are being trained on the outdated methods used by our grandparents. These kids won't be able to catch up with the rest of the world once they grow up since they are oblivious to the changing trends of working environments across the world. On the contrary, there is an ample number of educational institutions across Pakistan where the use of the technology is the first choice of the teacher and the learner. These first-rate institutionsare producing the professionals for tomorrow. It is at times incredible to listen to a kid of class/grade one talking about a project assigned to him/her for which he/she needs to google the material and choose the right stuff for the project since the teachers do grade the projects on the basis of the quality research.

These kids/the inheritors of technology compel their parnts/migrators to help them complete their projects with the use of technology. Based on this one can...

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