Today’s students grew up with Internet access, YouTube, Facebook, Myspace, and a host of other digital resources. They can typically be found doing their math homework while texting their friends, browsing on Facebook, and listening to music all at the same time. They generally feel that they can find ways to multitask, while most adults believe these online activities are only distracting them from concentrating on their studies. Many of them also report that when they go to school, they have to turn off and dumb down because their schools ban digital devices. 

One concern that teachers and adults usually have is that young people nowadays are increasing screen time in front of a computer, which aggravates the disconnect from the real world. Nonetheless, past efforts to fight this new digital culture were almost to no avail. Schools, therefore, must develop a strategy to take advantage of new technologies by infiltrating the digital culture into classrooms and learning. When advocators of flipped classroom present to teachers this new pedagogic innovation made possible by utilizing many accessible digital formats, it is only natural to anticipate a rather skeptical response. 

However, when implementing flipped learning, classroom teachers are surprised to see how their young students settle into learning quickly and engage themselves in the process rather actively. What is significant and worth considering is that teachers should start speaking their students’ language and learning from them what is the efficient medium to impart knowledge. It is about time schools embraced digital learning and used it to help our students learn, instead of telling them they are forbidden from learning with today’s tools. It seems preposterous that schools have not adapted themselves to this irreversible digital change. By encouraging students to tap into the abundant digital learning resources, we will soon see them engaged in a variety of instructional activities in which they are collaborating, experimenting, and interacting with their teachers and peers. They are allowed to monitor their own learning and become truly autonomous.