Generation Y children are harder to teach

A culture of "instant gratification" is making today's schoolchildren harder to teach. Youngsters today live in a world dominated by reality television and celebrities "where success appears to come instantly and without any real effort. It is difficult for teachers to compete. Success in learning just doesn't come fast enough. Today's children spent a daily average of 1.7 hours online, 1.5 hours on computer gaming and 2.7 hours on watching television. Against this background, the job of the teacher is immensely harder than it was even ten years ago.

To cope up with them, we have to move from dependent learning to independent learning. Teachers need to be capable of preparing students for a society and an economy in which they will be expected to be self-directed learners, able and motivated to keep learning over a lifetime.

First , we should accept that today's children are growing faster than we could ever imagine. When I was a child , my only contact with the outside world ( the world outside of our street ) was through the newspaper , or through listening to the elders in the family discussing the day's happenings. Even a reading of the newspaper was mostly restricted to the sports page.

Today's children are bombarded with suicide bombings , serial killers , climate change and what have you from every direction. Whether it is TV or paper or the Internet , news / information / knowledge is everywhere.

It is time we adapted to this fast moving world otherwise our children will do it without our help !

I have seen that children nowadays want explanations for everything ; in our time , the one explanation "you are too young to understand" sufficed ! Not so today. Children , right from class 5 are adept at using the Internet to get information , understand it and present it to others using tools like Word and Powerpoint. Trying to talk down to such children is unacceptable.

In fact today's children learn through dialogue , which puts them level with adults. This should actually make them easier to teach , since they are doing more than their share in learning.

Which is why you see more and more children excelling in activities at a much earlier age. Whether it is music , dance , sports or academics , children are doing it all at a much earlier stage in their lives. Which means they are learning faster.

If they are harder to teach , it is because we adults , who are teaching them , are unable to keep pace !

I think Gen Y children tend to get bore by too much bookish knowledge, if emphasis given to practical knowledge , may be that will work..

In classical age, people had a very traditional way of leaning, waterman ink pens, thick pulp papers.

Then came books, and blackboards.

Then came Classrooms and College Environments.

The World has been changing, all the time. Hence the way people groom, learn and grow also WILL CHANGE.

The same question shall be raised by our Children, for their children too.

Let's change with the world. We cannot control Technology, and exposure, Let's control our way of dealing with children.

I like to treat generation gape as customer complaint ... why not we mould ourselves to meet their requirement ... requesting that try to understand their strengths ... they have technology , tools and can update themselves  .... far better than us while adopting technology .... so we need to appreciate their talent and curiosity ....

Treat them like a customer and provide the best solution because we are experienced ... simply 

The world is growing fast with advanced technologies. At my child hood in a village, a radio was very decorative. now at this stage of our world children growing from infant hood playing his fingers on the computer key board. Our teachers are not ready to  update them self or  they are not permitted due to their time limit in busy life to update them self to the requirement of the their profession. Kindly remember a child is born to an advance world than the parents. I believe this gives all answers of the question.