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In today's society there are so many different sources that draws a child's attention. Music, visual aids such as computer's that can be incorporated into a learning tool and physical hands on learning. Some children are listener's and with the aide of music can relate a certain sound to beats to correlate the relation on whatever task they are trying to master. Computer's has been a big top hitter as been a source of being a visual aide until video games stepped onto the scene. Every game that is out on the market is violent or has some form of sexual images. Creating a game similar to Grand theft auto with teenager's driving car's or younger audience being picked up in a school bus or a carpooling cool mom or dad and associate different math problems, spelling or even geography questions to stimulate their interest. The time's has changed drastically and teaching skills has to keep up with the times to keep in tune with today's children. The old traditional text book lecturing is not grasping our children attention. A child can tell you the name of the latest cell phones, shoes, clothes, and technology but can't give the answer of the capital of Wyoming.

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