Tuesday, August 26, 2014

In Studying? Take a Break and Embrace Your Distractions__faten

Summary:

In Studying? Take a Break and Embrace YourDistractions, the author talks about the students routine life and how do they hear some advice about the right way to study: focus on the book, put devices away, study at the same place every day, and avoid distractions. Regarding to the author states that is not the only way to learn. She writes about the writer, Benedict Carey, who wrote the book of “How we learn”. He said that people don’t have to have the same chair, cubicle, and same room to memorize the material, so changing context and environment assist retention. Then in an interview with Carey who is asked about “how we typically study vs. how we learn life skills. He answers that students have knowledge how they have to study the material by quiet study, ritual which seems to be self-evident. But the skills such as cooking, ride a bicycle, etc. that we learned gradually during daily life. Then he talks about how parents worried about their children from distraction by the devices and checking their social websites which is a big distraction for student who are spending their entire time on social websites. This problem hasn't been solved which scientists are still looking for a real solution. He comments about a new way that scientists are trying to see the result of using testing as a study tool, self-examination, or make a test before starting a course which is an interesting, new way that may change the approaches of learning.   

 commentary

 In my view opinion, most of people or may all of them fed up of the traditional way of learning. We are used to go to school, sitting on the chair listen what teachers say, give homework. This is a boring routine, people want other way to learn. Although the world have been changed by the technology revolution, the school still using the boring way of teaching. Now, if the way of teaching had changed to a new, interesting way, the students may become more active, study, and more interested on what they learn. This generation are looking for something by technology.

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