The attention spans of teenagers are very short nowadays. Their desire for instant gratification and wanting to be heard is ever so strong (read: personal blogs, online forums, mass multi-player online gaming etc).
It is difficult for teachers to compete with the kind media that is reaching out to our students if we continue to teach the way we were taught. With GOOGLE getting stronger by the day, teaching is slowly no longer about the teaching of content. It is about providing a child with the direction, purpose and meaning to the world in which he lives in.
A good learning environment is not about decorating the classroom, it is also not just a display of content neither is it confined to the four walls of the classroom (read: field trips, online blogs, online forums, self discovery).
A good learning environment is one that is able to intrinsically motivate a child to seek direction, purpose and meaning to the content that is presented in a lesson. The way to tell whether a learning environment is effective or not, is by the fruits produced. If an environment is able to cause a child to analysis, synthesis and evaluate content knowledge, it is a good learning environment.
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