Digital Tools for Digital Natives: Learning in Times of a Global Pandemic

COVID-19 caused a global pandemic that is responsible for severe changes in our daily lives, including the education sector, which shifted from a face-to-face environment to less supervised learning from home. This chapter presents the role of digital tools for digital natives and their role in support of learning during the global pandemic. After an overview of existing approaches and current articles on COVID-19 in which the challenges of this special time are explained, I suggest that changes to our educational system are needed in order to prepare the next generation for the challenges that are yet to come. Virtual schools are one way forward in order to prepare teachers, students, and parents in using and benefiting from digital tools. It is also emphasized that more research is needed in the area of gamification and how digital tools can be used in a demand-oriented way.