Future citizens are actively engaged with technology through screens like TVs, the internet, and mobile phones. They use these screens to participate in their interests through activities like posting comments, blogging, and sharing pictures and videos. While this new paradigm creates a clash with traditional education, schools must adapt by sensibly incorporating technology to provide students with the skills needed to succeed in today's digital world. Teachers will play a central role in initiatives to include technology in classrooms.

2. How do future citizens live today?

3. They want to participate. And they do it with all they have at hand. A spray can, a burnt tire, a stick, a mobile phone, the Internet.

4. … they start using technology to participate. They post comments on online newspapers, they have blogs, chain e-mail, pictures, SMS, several ways...

5. They find what they love on the SCREENS and they participate in them TV + Internet + Mobile

6. Because on these SCREENS they get ACTIVATED with their music, their codes, their languages, their identity and their pictures.

7. And they FEEL, ENJOY and incorporate everything that happens in their active screen into their LIVES

8. They take that “new”* world as their own world. *New for adults. Current and contemporary for them.

9. Future citizens have their universe created around the active screen

10. How is school included in this new paradigm?

11. Inserting ICTs at school in a sensible way

12. We all know something is changing and we have to make a change WE MUST PROVIDE +EDUCATION, +SKILLS, +OPPORTUNITIES…

13. The old and the new educational paradigm Having said that, there is a clash between An unavoidable clash. Cultural. Which will be solved by time... and management

14. In the meantime, who gets harmed by this clash?

15. 1. CHILDREN

16. 2. TEACHERS

17. 3. THE FAMILY

18. TO EDUCATE FUTURE CITIZENS who have the skills to improve their PRODUCTIVITY , COMPETITIVENESS , who “LIVE” in the new KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY. And this education must be provided by TEACHERS as “ MAIN CHARACTERS ” in the initiatives of TECHNOLOGY inclusion in the CLASSROOM The Challenge

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