Never bored
The education system in Finland is in the top 5 education
systems in the world. We have a lot of good teachers and good students, but the
issue is that the students are not that motivated. They start school when
they’re seven years old. After that it’s only school school school if you want
to have a nice job. Does the motivation level start dropping because the things
that they teach us are boring? Is the information relevant to us?
In a world where cellphones control our lives, it’s very easy
to get bored quickly. The New York Times wrote an article about millennials,
the bored generation. They say that the people born between 1981 and 1996 are
defined as millennials. (The New York
Times, 2018) The millennials are often described as lazy and unmotivated. The
cellphone and smartphone era has started while they were kids. So, they grew up
looking at their screens and worrying over likes when social media started
showing its head. If they start to get bored, they just take their phone out of
their pockets. There is not a single quiet moment, they’re constantly doing
something. This isn’t just their problem though.
Boredom in classes leads to the motivation level to drop. If
the subject isn’t that interesting to someone, what do they do? They start
checking Instagram and Facebook. I believe that regular classes where the
teacher is telling what to do and giving the right answers is not interesting
enough. There needs to be something practical. Something that makes the
students involved with the teaching and learning. For example, if a student
asks a question, the one who answers could be another student, or the teacher
could try a bit of coaching and make the student find the solutions themselves.
Teaching self-leadership in schools is a good tool for the
students to start taking more responsibility of their learning. It doesn’t suit
everyone but the ones that it does, start taking things more seriously. I can
say that from my own experience since we learn by doing in Proakatemia. We do
everything in practice and we don’t have teachers but coaches. So, to us
there’s no lectures and no lecturers. We are responsible of our learning.
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/style/millennials.html
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