Perhaps there are many more distractions facing children today, but great teachers continue to create environments where their students want to be and to learn.
Designing for levels of engagement that grabs the attention of students is absolutely necessary. Levels of engagement need not, and won't, reach the level of video games, but enough to interest students in what they are going to learn.
Rather than take the steps necessary to make school more social, teachers more engaging, and curriculum more relevant, we either shift blame to parents, TV and hip hop, or seek salvation in the lessons of Grand Theft Auto.
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