A recent report has revealed that 8 out of 10 parents played video games with their kids and 97 percent of Australian households with children under 12 have at least one game console. Please read the full news report item here from news.com.au. What has this got to do with training? A great deal. This group of children will be the next group to move through into vocational and higher education in the next 5 to seven years. What sort of learning do you think they expect? Are they going to be able to cope with the lecture format? Will they be able to deal with slow, text based elearning? Do they want to sit in a classroom for hours on end discussing theoretical context. Three quarters of the parents in this research said that the games had a positive effect on their children. So even the parents are changing their perceptions of what learning should be like and how it should operate. Get ready that generation is coming your way and they will expect that training and learning to be just as exciting and engaging. Do you think you are ready?
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