Make the Grade!
3 Studying Hacks for Successful Students
Are your kids already sweating exams this semester? Fear not! Combine these tips with a regular studying routine, and they’ll be set for anything their teachers assign this year. CHEW ON THIS Not all classrooms allow gum, but those that do offer students a distinct advantage. According to Scientific American, chewing gum increases the flow of oxygen to the areas of your brain responsible for attention and memory. Your child can even coordinate gum flavors with each of their classes. Do they have a biology test coming up? They can chew peppermint gum while they study and while they take the test. Their brain will associate the minty flavor with those plant cell organelles they studied for an hour the night before. Just be sure to stick with sugar-free flavors! PROOFREAD WITH GOOGLE Is your student scrambling to perfect their essay before a midnight deadline? Be sure they leave time to read the essay aloud! Tom Stafford, a psychologist who studies typos at the University of Sheffield, notes that when we reread our work, “we don’t catch every detail; we’re not like computers or NSA databases.” In essence, your student doesn’t catch their typos because they don’t expect them. By reading their work aloud, your child can stumble onto — and fix — those typos as they come up.
But why put in all the effort when they can let Google do it for them? They can simply copy and paste their essay into Google Translate and let the program read the essay aloud. Hearing their work ring out in Google’s monotone speech will help your student highlight and fix those mistakes. And a little laugh never hurt, either. GET OFF FACEBOOK Is your student wasting all of their precious studying hours on social media? According to Common Sense Media’s 2015 national census survey, tweens ages 8–12 spend an average of six hours on some form of media daily. Teens ages 13–18, on the other hand, spend an average of nine hours a day watching television, browsing social media, and playing video games.
Help them self-regulate their digital consumption with StayFocusd, a web extension available for free in the Chrome Web Store. By adding this extension to your web browser, you can limit the amount of time your student spends scrolling through Facebook and maximize the time they spend on Google Scholar and Quizlet. Simply add distraction web sites to the blocked list and set the extension to block those sites for as long as your student wants to study. Then, once their notes are fully reviewed, they can get back to liking and retweeting. AUGUST TESTIMONIALS
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