Joseph Novak (1998) points out that every educational act consists of
five elements: (1) learner,
(2) teacher,
(3) knowledge,
(4) context,
(5) evaluation
Nobody actually is willing to learn lessons that are
not inspiring; so this generation Y of learners particularly is. They are not
ready to accept anything that does not motivate them? The worst of all is that it
becomes tougher to motivate them. This situation zooms and inflates the
overlooked question notably “What would ever be inspiring for them?” Taking
what they come across daily on their digital gadgets into consideration,
nothing is so attractively new to stimulate them. They have almost had enough
of everything so quickly that their concentration has been lost in the tiny
details of trivial information. How to mend this and start reformulating their
perception of the world beneficially is what school nowadays has to focus upon.
Methods come and go, but the students are always going to school for learning.
Don’t you smell the paradox here? Such is the nature of this era.
Within this messy interwoven net of information and
disinformation, everybody is trapped. What happens is that the learners realize
that school is incapable of lending them a salvage hand. With its archaic tools
of rescue, school has become unable to pull them out of the moors of social media
where the obscurity or diversion is pitch black though it looks as bright as
daylight especially for teenagers.
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