A study of factors influencing teaching digital generation

This study is about life skills of digital generation and its purpose is exploratory and the method is descriptive survey. Key aspects of life skills have been identified according to the review of literature in the world and Iran as follows cognitive skills, health skills, technology and information skills, media literacy, environment literacy, life and work skills also cultural and spiritual. On the basis of the identified elements a questionnaire has been developed on 1o scales which its content validity has been estimated α: 0. 973 regarding to views and opinions of educational experts, and its reliability has been estimated 0. 973 by conducting among 40 people as a pilot. Then the necessary revision has been done. At next step, the revised questionnaire has been conducted between high school students as well as teachers in order to determine elements of life skills. Sampling is based on stratified multistage and statistical population was high school and vocational female students and their teachers in Tehran. Collected data has been analyzed through factor analysis, one sample t-test, Friedman test. Findings show there is a significant difference between states que and desired conditions of teaching life skills and prioritizing of these skills including personal skills α: 0. 965, media and information literacy α: 0. 918, economic literacy α: 0. 893, and 21st literacy α: 0. 877.