Getting children’s attention for lectures has been challenging. There are several reasons for this: the decline of attention span across the board, the click-away convenience of obtaining information - even for children, further refined interests and passion, and increased needs and capacity for stimulation…
When most children shift their attention to somewhere and something else after a short few minutes, we often see the dilemma of children not being interested but adults deciding to keep going anyway.
One way to look at attention scarcity is that it is terrible and needs to be disciplined and corrected.
The other way is to figure out ways to adapt when we have lost our audiences: shifting to movements and activities, encouraging self-expression and participation, or improving the quality of content, including communicating through various mediums - the strategy abundance approach.
Seeing that children are no longer paying attention but insisting on lecturing them doesn’t help anyone.
