Introduction
The journey for learning has always been arduous, but
when adequate means are available, it becomes less burdensome. By adequate
means I mean everything which makes learning purposeful and fruitful. For the
digital students, learning has become at their disposition thanks to the multitude
of resources and the easiness of accessing them. However, for the millennial learners
who rely greatly on search engines to answer all their questions, learning is
getting more complicated and more risky at the same time because they are
predisposed to accept any answer provided even though their question was not
the exact one they want to ask. They need special cognitive skills to evaluate
before accepting the provided answer.
The necessary skills to cope with real life nowadays have
become great in number and diverse in type, but also hard in adjustment.
Unfortunately those skills are not yet taught at school. As it has become ludicrous
that school delivers information which doesn’t help the learners build an
emotionally, physically, intellectually and financially balanced personality,
real life skills have to be integrated in school syllabi. This is no longer a suggestion;
it has become an obligation. For scientific and technical streams, teaching
English as a foreign language requires a blender material which must entice the
students to activate and make use of their long term memory and to use their
thinking abilities appropriately as real life skills. In real life, they will surely
have to deal with situations that need vigorous investigation and be faced with
problems which need long lasting original solutions.
Obviously, in the past few years, young people didn’t
use to face the same problems as youth have to face today because life is
getting more complicated. Subsequently, nobody can imagine the harshness of problems
in the future. They will certainly be more complicated according to the
complexity of their professional, emotional, marital, financial, social, administrative,
and legal sides of life. They will have
no excuse as they will be responsible for their acts as adults, so they need to
develop critical thinking from now, and learn to solve problems by going deeper
to the source of any issue to fix it for preventing it from recurring. School
can provide them with the basic skills, and it is for them to develop those
skills and improve them via intensive practice.
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