If you miss a lesson you get in touch with a classmate for notes and exercises. 
However, please send a mail to your teacher if you are goind to miss class.

Note that if you arrive late or leave lessons early, it is an interruption for the entire class. If you are late, please do not enter the classroom until the break.

Professional courtesy

Turn off mobile phones and mute your computer before entering the classroom. You are recommended to bring laptops for notetaking and other professional matters, but you should know that media multitasking while studying will prevent any deep learning to take place.

·       Symptoms: texting, email checking, social media posting, etc.    

·       Effects: Spottier and shallower information assimilation

·       Understanding and remembering less 

·       Cure: Specific time for study and breaks for “tech”

·       Eat healty

·       Listen to music

·       Do some sports

·       Sleep

·       Watch movies and do what you like the most

 

How do I motivate myself??

·       Remove de-motivating factors

·       Optimize working conditions

·       Engage in activities that you like

·       Communicate, corporate and assist when needed

How do I become an active student who takes responsibility for my own learning??

·       All of the above J 

You are welcome and good luck.

How to deal with stress:

How to motivate yourself:
 Just get started and let the motivation catch up with you. 

 

Victoria Rideout who is an independent research and policy consultant said that she don’t care about combining media together, but she was particularly troubled by its findings regarding media multitasking while doing schoolwork.

 

Researchers used spyware, and found that almost half of student who had laptops used multimedia tasks while studying.

 

They also found that rookies used less time on multimedia tasks when they start their study.

David Meyer, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan said “that Under most condition...the prefrontal cortex.” Which means that brain can’t do two complex work at the same time. It will only happen when the two tasks are quite simple and they don’t compete with each other for the same mental resources.

 

Meyer also said that young people cannot evaluate their brains and working ability properly, they always think that they can do lots of things at the same time. But focusing on one thing is much better that doing lots of stuffs at the same time.

1)      Young people may spend much more time on the assignments, Because they waste time on doing other multimedia tasks, when they come back to work, they have to refamiliarize their material.

2)      Mistakes are caused by repeatedly dropping and picking assignments, for instance, the formal language in an essay compares with the casual tone in an email.

3)      Concentration might be divided. People cannot memorize things they just did properly or even can remember anything. Also they might affect their peers who are looking at what they are doing.

4)      People think that they can doing two tasks as better as they are doing one work, but it’s totally wrong. It a psychological stuff.

5)      Students who use Facebook, and their GPA is lower than students who focus on study.

 

 

Parents cannot intervene what children do on Facebook or other entertaining stuff. Just make sure their cellphone are silent, and video screens are dark and every window is closed but assignment.

Avoid multitasking 

Try to not use your mobile phone or listen to music, and use them only at the end of class. If you are working on school work or homework make sure you have no distractions, that moght create multitasking. 

How to deal with stress: 

Exercise 

Eat healthy 

Get enough rest 

Change your focus 

Prioritize people and things in your life 

Create a schedule 

Learn the difference between urgent and important 

How to motivate yourself:
Remove barriers-remove factors that de-motivate you
Try to be more enthusiastic, positive and optimistic
Similarly to "how to deal with stress", make a time table or a schedule
Do things you like
Have a good communication with others