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The uses of digital technologies are obvious and the impacts of technology over “generation z” are tremendous. But beyond its surface of recreational capabilities, there are some beneficial ways that can be used in an instructional environment. One of them is to use virtual reality that we first introduced in class with Google cardboard. It is the pioneer that sets an immersive experience to go beyond the entertainment, and it gets weary in time.  Virtual Reality is the simulation of a real or imagined environment that appears as three dimensional (3D) space. Immersion of VR into the classrooms started with affordable devices such as Samsung Gear VR and Google Cardboard and Windows 10 VR (Lawrie,2017). The headsets attached to any smartphone device and free VR apps such as Titans of Space VR or Google Arts and Culture can give a new tune to learning just by hitting the icons in the apps and can help learners to virtualize the themes like space; walking on the moon by i...

We live in millennial era that make our children digital natives with the advance of technology. Digital native is defined as a person who has grown up in the digital age and having knowledge of digital systems as an adult. Those all also be called as Net Generation as mentioned by Prensky (as cited Setiawan,2019). The ones who were born between the 80s and 2000s called as Millennial and the ones were born  after 2000s named as Generation Z. We may observe the differences between young and old generation by observing their digital literacy since younger ones spend   most of their time by surfing in the web pages or popular social media sites. While some elderly are trying to turn the pages and highlighting the words in a book, others are scrolling through digital pages and interacting with the text using web tools. The way we interact with others and learn things is quite different from then and now. As Prensky (2001) discussed that our greatest problem that we face in...