Attention Span

I agree with David M. Marcovitz’s idea that we are and “instant gratification culture.” Students these days have grown up with full access to high speed internet. Information is only seconds away via laptops or cell phones. With all of this technology students don’t have the patience, they used to. It’s not necessarily a bad thing. They are eager to learn things and aren’t interested in wasting time. With the advances in technology students haven’t had to learn the same way their parents did, they have new faster ways of processing information. I think Marcovitz’s has got it exactly right when he says “we have been trained by our technology.”

 

I think we as teachers need to stop opposing technology. We shouldn’t be scared of new ways to approach teaching. It’s an exciting time to be a teacher. There are so many new ways to get the lesson across and to engage students. We need to ask ourselves how we can incorporate technology into what we’re teaching. Educators need to quit fighting the notion to do things the old way, or the way it’s always been done. It’s time to change the way we teach. As Jon Davidson says “we must adapt our teaching styles and methods to the way our students learn.”