Higher order, or deep level thinking
Students today want to be stimulated, they want to be creative and entertained, because this is what they are used to when they watch tv, surf the net, play computer games etc… even using online msging systems have countless options for individual fonts, colours, backgrounds.
This all transfers into how they want to learn. And it is completely possible for higher order thinking and learning to occur while playing games and being creative. For example when a teenager plays a computer game, they are multi tasking, analysing the situation, the other players, their own statistics. They are being creative in almost living in whatever fantasy world the game takes them to, where they may be allowed to fly, have magical powers or other special abilities.
Young people are used to having loads of info sent their way simultaneously, and are skilled at sorting and analysing what is relevant and useful, and adapting this information, this learning, to whatever it is they are doing.
Step-by-step learning, and information that is presented gradually, and in a bland way, such as being written on a board or simply discussed, is not interesting to students today. It is not challenging or stimulating compared to the fast paced, dynamic, creative and attention grabbing digital world they live in.
Some key words: access, and diversity
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