New Student Profiles: Creativity in Competent Digital Natives and Routine Experts

Abstract

Matters that until now were exclusive to pedagogic debate, such as teaching-learning models or the kinds of skills and abilities needed by the youth of today, have now entered a wider discussion arena, as it is society as a whole that expects professional and human profiles to be more adapted to current times. To achieve this, we should not assume that our youths possess some natural ability to act in the new technological environments, as it is probably their communicative needs that give rise to using these environments. Modest practical ideas and solid methodological referents are needed which will allow us to open up the limited world that is digitally evolving around our young people. The area of development they are about to enter has just started to shift towards globality and their responsibility as digitally-aware citizens is acquiring an importance still to be discovered but which we can no longer remain oblivious to.