You just brought a good point up but I’m not sure if you meant to.
“… If they want to learn” - Most kids don’t, or at least don’t want to for topics they don’t get are important. At least in this country anyway. They are forced to go to school with claims it’s going to help them, to sit and stare at a teacher writing on a board for 8-10 hours a day, of mostly stuff that isn’t clear how it’s supposed to help them, then are supposed to regurgitate what was seen on the board. Usually with little to no interest and little socialization with others outside lunch period or the brief intermission period where you switch classes.
That’s the job of the teachers, to make the kids learn the topics, and the best way to do so is keeping it entertaining. You don’t learn subject matter if you are not interested in the subject, instead you start doing anything but retaining the information. If the school system is stating they are unable to keep their kids attentive of classes, they have failed as a school system. No amount of blaming other resources is going to change that.
The sad thing is, distractions in class isn’t a new concept. My parents have told stories of how kids would play hookie, or go out to hunt over lunch break and not come back till the next day, or how they would pass notes in class, and if the teacher caught them they would have to read the note aloud for better or for worse. Hell people set firecrackers/fireworks off in the bathroom during exam periods to set the fire-alarms off. The issue of it being boring and as such not lucrative to the general student is not a new concept caused by phones or computers, it’s just said concept is now easily blamed on them or the kids instead of the system which is causing it in the first place.
Ammendum: Like I said in the original comment, I have to disagree with your that’s how adult life is. I personally found working a full time job to be way more entertaining and engaging than any of my school experiences. Which is sad concidering you do the same thing every day, but at least you have the freedom of choosing how you do it, and you have a clear outcome of why you are doing it… which is way more than I can say about the highschool/middleschool experience.
or kids need to stop expecting learning to be easy and entertaining…
and do the work required if they want to learn.
because that’s what adult life is like, learning and working doing difficult shit all day. not being entertained.
You just brought a good point up but I’m not sure if you meant to.
“… If they want to learn” - Most kids don’t, or at least don’t want to for topics they don’t get are important. At least in this country anyway. They are forced to go to school with claims it’s going to help them, to sit and stare at a teacher writing on a board for 8-10 hours a day, of mostly stuff that isn’t clear how it’s supposed to help them, then are supposed to regurgitate what was seen on the board. Usually with little to no interest and little socialization with others outside lunch period or the brief intermission period where you switch classes.
That’s the job of the teachers, to make the kids learn the topics, and the best way to do so is keeping it entertaining. You don’t learn subject matter if you are not interested in the subject, instead you start doing anything but retaining the information. If the school system is stating they are unable to keep their kids attentive of classes, they have failed as a school system. No amount of blaming other resources is going to change that.
The sad thing is, distractions in class isn’t a new concept. My parents have told stories of how kids would play hookie, or go out to hunt over lunch break and not come back till the next day, or how they would pass notes in class, and if the teacher caught them they would have to read the note aloud for better or for worse. Hell people set firecrackers/fireworks off in the bathroom during exam periods to set the fire-alarms off. The issue of it being boring and as such not lucrative to the general student is not a new concept caused by phones or computers, it’s just said concept is now easily blamed on them or the kids instead of the system which is causing it in the first place.
Ammendum: Like I said in the original comment, I have to disagree with your that’s how adult life is. I personally found working a full time job to be way more entertaining and engaging than any of my school experiences. Which is sad concidering you do the same thing every day, but at least you have the freedom of choosing how you do it, and you have a clear outcome of why you are doing it… which is way more than I can say about the highschool/middleschool experience.