Do you Know what is meaningful learning? Its simple. Its learning everything that make sense. It’s the kind of learning that would equip our children and our society for future’s challenges. The challenges that are uncertain. Such can be regarded as the one which occurs due to developmental readiness, curiosity and significant matter.
However it is very sad to see but not surprisingly , that many of the current era’s youngsters both girls and boys at all socioeconomic levels, are blocked from this goal by detours erected in our culture, schools, and homes.
The advancement in Technology has rendered these young minds to digest any type of educational diet. The lifestyles have gained phase, and together with heavy media dose have resulted in negative results. Such negative results beget brains misfit to the traditional modes of academic learning.
In a recent survey, teachers in both the United States and Europe reported overwhelmingly that today's students have shorter attention spans, are less able to reason analytically, to express ideas verbally, and to attend to complex problems. Meanwhile, school curricula modes of instruction do little to remedy the deficits by engaging either attention or curiosity. The result? A growing educational "crisis" of misfit between children and their schools.
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