It has always been said that learning becomes more interesting when it is fun and easy. By making use novel and creative means of instruction, students can gain more interest in the learning process.
Today children are exposed to many media forms and modern technologies prompting educators to the declining attention span of our children. Education experts say many children now have short attention and short term memory that many learning concepts supposedly taught in school immediately escape their consciousness.
The recent wave of game shows of all sorts have generated so much attention of the public that many major TV stations are now trying to outsmart each other in concocting more creative games and enticing prizes.
There must be some truth on it. Every day we are confronted with medical findings showing greater incidence of autism and attention deficit disorders.
With the ever-growing distractions, school children’s concentration is not only compromised as well as learning experience is dissipated. Thus, teachers should employ more attractive, more relevant and more encouraging school activities to improve learning abilities.
The use of visual aids has so far been the most time tested and most economical contrivance used by educators. The growing and dynamic tastes and preferences of school children, nevertheless, always need some creativity and novelty. The present breed of school children appreciates things and concepts on a more on a more complex plane. Aside for the sense of sight, they have learned to explore their other senses in being able to obtain a full gasp of things around them.
On the part of school teachers, as an example, they can even use of game shows or schemes as activities in learning experience. Popular games have been so far effective in boosting class participation in some lessons. There are also other physically invorgating games used by popular game shows that will not only cater to the learning needs of the students but also tend to improve their locomotors skills.
By: Juanita D Dinglasan | T-III | Bagac National High School
