Why cant ugly people be successful, singers, and entertainers. Seems we want to look at beautiful people, our eyes are ahead of our ears in terms of perception.
This seems to ring true in terms of our children and generation Y. You Tube is the biggest internet site for gen Y. Flat screen TV's, gaming consoles, My Sky, and more.
Seems kids of today are in fact overwhelmed with certain sensory skills.
Should we use this technology to hook our learners, our interactive whiteboard argument seems to be entering here. Lets give them the gaming and television all in one classroom learning tool..... make sence? So do our classrooms need to cotton on to this.
I think we should be taking the opposite stance and ensuring that we address areas of sensory learning that children are now missing in their childhood. I reckon (without any research or data) that more kids are growing up with television, computers, gaming than with books and outside play. (am I right, genius eh)
Its a bit like the "girls dont do well in science" arguement, you can either do more social studies or attack science full on.
so where is this whole blog going here..... reading and writing, listening and speaking, seems to be where the lack of development is most evident in young kids.
ka hikitia research says Maori students need to make their best progress in literacy/numeracy in the first 4 years of school or miss the boat.
So lets be experts and stick to our knitting, all with a smile, chuckle or laugh.
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