What is the difference between modern students

Let this sound corny, but modern students differ in that they are modern. Each new generation has wider communication opportunities, newer textbooks, freer views. However, the children of the information age have their own characteristics, which are not always advantages over yesterday's graduates.

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School methodologists note in modern students a decrease in the level of confidence in textbooks and optional classes as the only true sources of knowledge. There are several reasons for the problem. This is the technical lag of schools (textbooks seem to children to be remnants of the past), and the imaginary availability of knowledge on the Internet ("Why sit on a book, if everything can be found, read, downloaded?"), And the spread of alternative anti-scientific trends like the new linguistics of Chudinov- Zadornova or the history of Fomenko.

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Children's memory has become worse. The reason is almost universal computerization and a change in the principles of the media in the 1990s - 2000s. Memory cards and hard drives, as well as Internet access almost from a wristwatch automatically abolished the need to remember formulas and rules for a long time, memorize poems or prose passages. Newspapers, magazines, websites and television programs split up already plain texts into chapters and cuts. Among the educational psychologists, the colloquial term “clip thinking” has spread - it has replaced the conceptual (verbal-logical) one - now children learn not to compare and put their knowledge into practice, but to present as their own success only what they managed to quickly get out of context.

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Difficulties in real communication are also not the last difference of a modern school student, and again, the matter is on the Internet and the backlog of social infrastructure (to a lesser extent, but including in the West). Network games, social networks, forums in the dissolution of courtyard clubs, circles in youth houses, the transformation of teenage sports sections into fitness clubs, all played a negative role.

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Distrust towards teachers and adults in general has grown. The conflict between fathers and children is an old topic, but the modern conflict is not based on the desire of the new generation to surpass, make it better in its own way or, at worst, in the Bazar style to cross out the achievements of previous generations. Today, a teenager is quite ready to use the fruits and gains of his parents, only so that responsibility for this is minimal. Money as the main criterion for success, "personal success", has become a factor in the initial evaluation of a person. Under such conditions, a teacher who is not well-earned cannot be an authority. Not to mention those cases when the teacher is the first link in the corruption system of the so-called. school requisitions.

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Experts are still arguing about the pros and cons of canceling school uniforms, but if in the pluses is emancipation, then in the minuses is a sharp visual differentiation. In the USSR, even the children of the party nomenclature did not have such a way to stand out as clothes. At best, some accessories. Today, there are frequent cases of dividing into fashionable and unfashionable, winners and losers, without regard to the level of intelligence or personal qualities.

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The decrease in motor activity (and children and adolescents spend more and more time at the computer) and the deterioration of the environmental situation led to an increase in chronic diseases. This is often found out after school, as the annual medical examination, and even more so the monthly medical examinations, are also carried out very badly. And at school, health problems affect performance and poor performance.

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The decline in literacy and the deterioration of manual writing skills are moving in parallel with the spread and development of computers. If in elementary school accuracy in copybooks is still of some importance, by the fifth grade, especially without proper control by both teachers and parents, the students 'handwriting resembles the doctors' handwriting: randomly connected barely recognizable letters. Spell checkers built into text editors, browsers and smartphones freed children from the need to write correctly and carefully.

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There are also positive differences, and, not surprisingly, all because of the same computers. For example, in those schools where technical equipment allows, there is no need for utility rooms with bulky teaching materials from the time of King Gorokh. Now, instead of a mountain of dusty maps and diagrams in dozens of disciplines, there is a computer and a video projector, with which modern schoolchildren communicate easily, and instead of handwritten reports, paper presentations (but, unfortunately, often made by direct copying).

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Today's older students are more serious about choosing a future profession and earlier become independent. If in Soviet times it was possible to go to the factory, to laboratory assistants, to the assistants of librarians, to stay in the Komsomol line for a while or not to go to the army and try to enroll later with discounts, then today's social elevators require higher education in appropriate profile, and the army generally fell out of life goals.

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Despite the apparent deterioration of everything and everything among modern schoolchildren, new generations go through a rather typical transition period. Its complexity lies only in a gigantic stream of conflicting information, which even scientific advice is often unable to cope with, not like individual adolescents. Over time, everything will be fine, since the adaptation mechanism works both for individuals and societies.

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