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The issue with todays generation is that it is difficult to hold their attention for any longer than a few minutes. This can come from several different reasons. The students could have ADHD, a short attention span, difficulty focusing, they could just not be interested in the information they are learning, or not be interested in school in general. Even so, its the job of the teachers to keep their attention and make them interested. There are many different ways to go about this, but a good way to accomplish this is by making learning fun. Today’s generation is one of technology, so a good way to make learning fun is by using technology. Back when i was in middle school, to learn about construction and building creativity my teachers made my class play a game called Minecraft, which is a open world creativity based game, and a game called homemaker, its basically similar to the house building feature of the sims games, and I’m one who struggles with ADHD, but i truly liked this’d kind of learning. At the current moment, just about every grade and the majority of schools, from pre-school to college, use technology to help students learn and make learning fun.

Games
Throughout the years that i have been in schooling i have found several different games that are more learning focused. For example, on mobile divices there is stack the state and stack the countries that help you learn about the states/countries as well as learn about geography. Also, there is a game call alchemy that is more science based with a little bit of fun to it. There are also several other games that help you learn about a variety of subjects, but one that i used a lot while in elementary school was a website called cool math games. As the name suggests the main subject of learning is math, but it also teaches other subjects too. It has thousands of games that works on many different areas of learning. It’s goal, as well as its sister websites Coolmath and coolmath4kids, is to match learning with fun and games. Although the website is getting close to 30 years old, they are still helping students to this day.

English Learning
Learning English can be difficult no matter what age you are, but learning a language can be difficult for the younger age group due to retention and learning capabilities. But, with the use of technology it can help be made easy. Now a days, we can listen to the pronunciation, look up spelling, and all sorts of things to help better a students education.

Application of technology in college
With the expansion of the uses of technology students are able to learn in all sorts of matters. For the most part, college students now a days have classes, assignments, homeworks, and projects online via different websites and turn them in via those websites. And now, teachers have found a practical use for some new technology within the classrooms. For example, when I was in anatomy and physiology lab last year, we had a piece of technology that really helped me as well as the rest of the class. We had a giant tablet the size of a table and we used it to see bones, blood vessels, veins, and other parts of the body. But, in other colleges with similar programs they have games that they use in specific class subjects. They use these games to learn how to examine or in practical use they could learn how to work in their field of study with the help technology.

With the use of technology you can learn more and you can help make learning fun