The new buzzword in the education industry is “micro learning.” Even though the term sounds relatively new to many, it has been around for decades. Experts believe that a student has an attention span of about 10-15 minutes. To be able to keep the attention of a student, effective teaching strategy is to “chunk” information into smaller pieces with recurrent but brief breaks. One of the primary reasons why micro learning is gaining so much popularity is because the concept makes it easy for the child to remember what they have been taught. The entire syllabus is segmented into smaller sections, helping them remember things more effectively in comparison to what they would remember if the classes were longer. Micro learning and our brain: Consider how children gather information outside of homeschooling . They get it in small snippets. They watch videos, access Facebook posts, Instagram, they talk to friends, check their emails, and the like. Everything is bombarded in...