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Smarter Teacher for Smart Kids

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At the dawn of my career in Instructional Design, I was made aware of the learner’s attention span limit. Thus, I had got the logic behind limiting the lectures in schools and colleges to 35 to 45 minutes. This awareness happened more than a decade ago. Today, when I look back, this fact seems irrelevant.  Today the students are more aware with exposure to information through various mediums. They want more than just information. They want a great learning experience as well. And what has happened to the attention span? It has almost reduced to one third of the earlier span. Hence, practically, a teacher has only 15 minutes to capture a student's attention. This is the age of smart kids, who will listen to the 1 st sentence, evaluate the 2 nd one and by the time the 3 rd sentence reaches their ears, they will make their decision to avoid or listen. How to deal with such students? Forcibly teach them? You can’t. They will find ways to outwit you. A simple solution is to becom