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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This absolutely cracks me up.

You're mad that the next generation has short attention spans, but have you ever stopped to consider that they're absorbing 1000x more information during the time in which it took you to finish your long and drawn out sentence?

Instructional design has yet to catch up and I'm guessing OP hasn't either. Nobody has time for a lecture that's a second longer than it needs to be.

These new generations have evolved to be more efficient and have perfected the ability to breakdown subject matter into bite sized pieces.

If it's not that, they don't want it...can you blame them? Time is the hottest commodity and Gen Z and Gen Alpha is all about protecting their time and being the most efficient with it. [/quote]

Dumbest comment in the entire thread.[/quote]

DP: This rings true. They absorb and process information far faster than we ever did. Our high school has taken some AP courses that used to be a year and teaching them to the brightest kids in one semester and they are getting 5s. Processing speeds are increasing and so is impatience with older generations.[/quote]

And based on what evidence are you proving that:

1. Students in prior generations couldn't have handled the compressed AP classes were that an option? Many of my peers at TJ decades ago were bored in even advanced classes, though I don't claim to be that smart.
2. Faster processing team means better learning?

From a short story written in the 1960s where PTA members from earth visit an imaginary alien planet called Camiroi to learn about the education system there:

[quote] “How rapidly do you read?” Miss Hanks asked a young girl.

“One hundred and twenty words a minute,” the girl said.

“On Earth some of the girl students your age have learned to read at the rate of five hundred words a minute,” Miss Hanks said proudly.

“When I began disciplined reading, I was reading at the rate of four thousands words a minute,” the girl said. “They had quite a time correcting me of it. I had to take remedial reading, and my parents were ashamed of me. Now I’ve learned to read almost slow enough.”

“I don’t understand,” said Miss Hanks. 
...
 “What is this business about slow reading?” Miss Hanks asked. “I don’t understand it at all.”

“Only the other day there was a child in the third grade who persisted in rapid reading.” Philoxenus said. “He was given an object lesson. He was given a book of medium difficulty, and he read it rapidly. Then he had to put the book away and repeat what he had read. Do you know that in the first thirty pages he missed four words? Midway in the book there was a whole statement which he had understood wrongly, and there were hundreds of pages that he got word-perfect only with difficulty. If he was so unsure on material that he had just read, think how imperfectly he would have recalled it forty years later.”

“You mean that the Camiroi children learn to recall everything that they read?”

“The Camiroi children and adults will recall for life every detail they have ever seen, read or heard. We on Camiroi are only a little more intelligent than you on Earth. We cannot afford to waste time in forgetting or reviewing, or in pursuing anything of a shallowness that lends itself to scanning.” 
...
And there seems to be no great secret about the accomplishments, only to do everything slowly enough and in the right order:
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http://uncabob.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-primary-education-of-camiroi.html[/quote]

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