Digital immigrants vs. digital natives in Venezuelan public educational institutions: aphorisms about a controversial polyhedral reality

Abstract

The purpose of the manuscript was to address, from a dialectical approach, some meeting scenarios between such disparate social phenomena, such as digital immigrants vs. digital natives. It is a documentary article, with bibliographic design and bibliographic method, where the documentation was applied as a technique, for the analysis and interpretation of content; the bibliographic matrix and the content analytical matrix were used as instruments. After the discussion and confrontation of the intervened documentary load, we reflected on the redirection that educational strategies have experienced, applied by Venezuelan teachers, on the occasion of the impact that information and communication technologies have had on the popular culture of the world modern. Finally, it could be concluded that digital immigrants with the exercise of the teaching role, involved in cognitive processes where millennials intervene, must have sufficient cognitive tools, which enable them to take full advantage of communicational technological devices in school classrooms.