User:Wickedfan2/Keeping Students Attention

Holding the attention of a student and keeping them engaged in the learning process is the goal of every good instructor. With each new generation, attitudes, life experience, and lifestyles change enough to make the task of engaging students a different experience. Some researchers have suggested that children exposed to Television and the Internet at young ages develop attention disorders. In demographics, a commercial that targets senior citizens will change camera angles only a few times during the entire commercial. A commercial targeting children will change camera angles as often every second or sometimes more. Researchers argue that this over-stimulation has the effect of an unintentional training to decreasing the attention span of young people. Therefore it is necessary to recognize that different generations not only have different attention spans, but techniques to capture attention vary as well. Some techniques to capture attention of todays youth are:


 * Movement: change of attention from one physical location to another, change slides often, Move around the room during instruction.  Get the students to move..
 * Visual stimulation: Use pictures, movies, charts and graphs.  Many people are better visual learners than auditory learners
 * Use auditory Stimulation: All commercials and movies, TV shows have a constant stream of sound.  The more auditory stimulation in a lesson, the more your students will pay attention.
 * Kinematic Stimulation: Getting a student to have a hands on experience will make a lasting impression, and get them out of a comfortable chair.