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Journal of Social Welfare and Management 10(3 (Special Issue)):p 345-348, . | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/jswm.0975.0231.10318.3
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Can Learning Be Fun?
Asha S Kutty, Assistant Professor, MD College, Thrissur, Kerala 680026, India. , Asha S Kutty , Manu Melwin Joy ,
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Today’s classrooms are filled with pedagogy that is “stale, bland and almost entirely stuff from the past” (Prensky 2005 p62). But today’s students are technology savvy and expect to be engaged. Educators are looking for newmethods to engage learners. So how can students be engaged and motivated to learn. The answer is simple. If we can induce an element of fun into learning process we will definitely be able to engage students, motivate them to learn, retain their attention and finally make them learn. So in this paper the author is trying to out how can we introduce the element of fun into learning. The objective of the study is to understand about the students perceptive of including fun in learning process and to understand whether the inclusion of fun element can enhance motivation helps to retain attention and engage students. The use of fun elements in learning process will definitely make it interesting and easy to learn and appealing for students. Most of the students like to be engaged and expects that inclusion of fun elements will increase the rate of their interest and engagement. Even though fun can generate interest in learning, special attention should be given how, how much, when and where these elements should be added so that the subject will not loss its identity and content.
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