Dear MEL Topic Readers,
How can a distracted generation learn anything?
As things become more digitized and change faster, more videos, photos, and images are shown online than text. If you compare today’s websites to the ones ten years ago, you’ll find much more videos and photos but much fewer words. Likewise, as personal communication format shifted from letters to emails and emails to messaging apps, the length of text has become shorter and more concise, and the writing has become less descriptive but more expressive. Indeed, people can get another information or change the app only by clicking, touching, scrolling, or swiping on the screen in less than a second. As a result, digital-native young children who were born with digital media and devices become less tolerant to longer, effort-requiring text, and their attention and concentration last shorter. So, it’s not hard to imagine what is happening in the classroom. Teachers are struggling to get students’ attention to the tasks that require reading and concentration. How are they coping with such challenges that they had never experienced or anticipated when they took their jobs?
Enjoy reading and think what’s important for today’s children who will become adults in the 2030s.
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