Learning in Young People. Its Specificity and the Challenges of the Knowledge Society

The article connects several current concepts: the knowledge society, the student-centered educational system, constructivist learning in young people, the virtual environment of learning and education. At the heart of applying these concepts in educational practice are young people who, although beneficiaries of the constructivist knowledge and education society, are called to maintain with energy and their creativity the dynamic and the progress of the knowledge society in a continuously ascending constructivist paradigm. In the introduction of the paper, the knowledge society is defined from the perspective of several authors and the digital personality is sketched, as a new type of personality specific to young people, formed under the domination of the computer. The second part of the paper discusses constructivist learning, in the student-centered education system, the constructivist teacher’s attitudes forming the constructivist student’s creative attitudes. The third part of the article addresses young people learning in the virtual environment, the process of virtualization of education with actors, new content, methods, means, forms of organizing education, positive and negative aspects of virtual education. At the end of the paper, reference is made to cyberculture as a synthesizing concept of the current cyber movement.