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The main objective of this chapter is to describe the educational needs of modern students as representatives of the Net generation. We highlight the discrepancy between their characteristics and the traditional ways of teaching ICT disciplines. In this chapter we report our teaching experience and poll results at Kherson State University, Ukraine for three year period. We offer new teaching approaches to cope with the generation gap and ways to improve the quality of ICT teaching.
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Kushnir, N., Manzhula, A., Valko, N. (2013). Bridging the Generation Gap in ICT Education. In: Ermolayev, V., Mayr, H.C., Nikitchenko, M., Spivakovsky, A., Zholtkevych, G. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications. ICTERI 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 412. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03998-5_12
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