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16 of the best ways to work smarter, not harder
When I really focus on what I'm doing and work hard, I'm usually surprised at how much I can get done. Something that should take half a day can be done in a couple of hours when I minimize distractions and concentrate.
By Stefan Rares Baluta4 years ago in Education
10 Steps to Mindfulness
How often have you rushed out the door and into your day without even thinking about how you’d like things to go? Before you know it, something or someone has rubbed you the wrong way, and you’ve reacted automatically with frustration, impatience, or rage—in other words, you’ve found yourself acting in a way you never intended.
By Stefan Rares Baluta4 years ago in Education
21 Ways To Earn $100 Every Day Online
While it’s been a long time since I received my first $100 internet payday, I’ve learnt a lot about other online money-making tactics since then. And I’d like to show you each one individually. But first, let me provide some background on myself and my tale.
By ezzaher mohammed4 years ago in Education
The Complete Guide to the Best Online Tools for Video Meetings & Online Classes
This article contains a list of online tools which offer a variety of video meeting options, including webinars and online classes. These tools are easy to use and provide a wide range of features and options. The software can support audio and video conferencing, whiteboarding and document sharing in a virtual environment. Their main purpose is to allow people from different geographic locations to have a conversation with each other by using the computer as the medium for communication. Some of the most popular online meeting tools are Zoom meetings, Microsoft Teams Go To Meeting, Google Hangouts (Google meet), Skype, Apple FaceTime and Wire.
By eTutors Academy4 years ago in Education
I want to learn to work online, how to earn money by learning to work online?
We want to learn to work online for the purpose of earning money online. Because, nowadays, making money online has become very popular. However, earning money is not an easy task. To make money online, you first need to have some basic ideas. This article or section needs sources or references that appear incredible, third-party publications. I want to learn to work online, how to earn money by learning to work online?
By Sashon khan4 years ago in Education
Why Dual Enrollment Is Better Than AP for Accumulating College Credits in High School
So, you’re a junior or a senior high schooler, and you need to curate a transcript with challenging courses that will make you a competitive applicant for your dream university. Or a high-achieving freshman or sophomore who wants to finish college in less than four years. Or maybe you’re a parent of a middle-schooler or young high schooler who sees a lot of academic potential in your child but isn’t sure how to push him or her to take advantage of it. You’ve heard about AP courses, IB courses, Honors courses, and dual enrollment courses, and frankly, the number of options is overwhelming. Some schools offer a limited number of such courses, but with the increasing availability of online high school courses and the opportunities at online or local community and technical colleges, now more than ever students can rack up college credits while still in high school. But what’s the best, most efficient way to do this?
By Isla Griswald4 years ago in Education
Social Media
People generate stuff, share it, bookmark it, and network at a rapid rate on social media, which has grown as a category of online conversation. On the academic side, Facebook, MySpace, Digg, Twitter, and JISC listservs are examples. Social media is rapidly transforming public debate in society and defining trends and agendas in themes ranging from the environment and politics to technology and the entertainment sector, thanks to its simplicity of use, speed, and reach. We opted to explore social media's ability to anticipate real-world outcomes since it might be viewed as a type of collective knowledge. Surprisingly, we observed that a community's chatter may be leveraged to create quantitative predictions that exceed those made using artificial markets. These information markets usually involve the trading of state-contingent assets, and they are usually more accurate than other strategies for obtaining diffuse information, such as surveys and opinion polls, if they are large enough and well organized. Prices in these marketplaces, in particular, have been found to exhibit substantial correlates with observed outcome frequencies, making them good predictors of future outcomes. The immensity and high variability of information that spreads via huge user groups on social media give an intriguing potential for capturing that data into a form that allows for detailed predictions about specific events without market mechanisms. Models can also be built to aggregate the collective population's opinions and get helpful insights into their behavior, as well as predict future trends. Furthermore, getting information on how people talk about specific products can be beneficial for creating marketing and advertising campaigns. A study like this is the subject of this publication. We look at the task of estimating box-office sales for movies using Twitter buzz, which is one of the Internet's fastest-growing social networks. Twitter 1, a microblogging platform, has seen a surge in popularity in recent months, resulting in a massive user base of several tens of millions of people who actively participate in content creation and dissemination. We chose movies as the subject of this study for two reasons.
By rayden n fincher4 years ago in Education
Music Theory
What is music, and why is it thought to be beneficial to learning? Musical noises pervade our lives: from music shared on social media to songs played in stores and restaurants, we are never far from music. Playing music provides a multimodal "exercise" for the brain, which can increase memory, concentration, and even reading skills. In this article, we discuss how music training affects numerous brain processes such as hearing, sight, movement, and social awareness. Because music is so accessible and is more than just tunes, you don't have to be a Mozart to get the benefits of performing it. You are engaging in musical behavior whenever you communicate without using words (by the way you express something rather than what you say). In this article, we look at research on learning and music to see why music can help us develop our brains and how music can be a part of our life both in and out of the classroom. What is music, and why is it thought to be beneficial to learning? While people from all cultures generate anything that may be called music, few of them give it a name or consider it to be distinct from other activities such as dancing or storytelling. As a result, we can only define music in broad terms as a form of sound transmission. Music, unlike speech, is not often considered semantic. In terms of language or logic, this refers to the concept of meaning. This means that music does not rely on words to convey information. Consider how difficult it would be to explain anything simple with only melodies, such as "your left shoe is untied." A musically pleasant series of single notes. At the same time, music can elicit powerful feelings that are difficult to put into words. Aside from being an art form, any kind of communication is partially musical and can be described as musical. Whether it's musical ability or sensitivity, you can't go wrong with either. Consider how you could say "huh" in a variety of ways. Each method uniquely conveys information. That is what it is to be musical. It's a musical part of communication rather than a musical performance. While not everyone can play the violin, everyone can master their communication style. Initially, some experts believed that simply listening to music could enhance the brain. They discovered that listening to Mozart's classical music boosted people's IQ scores. The intellectual quotient is a conventional measure of an individual's intelligence level based on psychological examinations. People began to believe that listening to music made you smarter as a result of this. However, this was an oversimplification and exaggeration of the findings. Following investigations, it was shown that listening to music does not actually make you smarter, but rather increases your enjoyment and reduces your stress levels, which can lead to greater focus and exam scores. This means that, while listening to music in your house or the classroom will not automatically boost your performance, it may be effective in helping you focus on a new activity or in situations requiring increased attention and reduced tension. Furthermore, simply listening to music may have a distinct or possibly lesser, influence than playing music. This is similar to how participating in sports improves your physical condition more than simply observing them. As a result, performing together with music could increase the focusing power of music. The more you exercise your intellect, the stronger it becomes, much like your muscles. Neural plasticity refers to the ability of the brain to change as a result of our experiences. Because the brain is easily molded, like plastic, the nervous system's ability to adapt itself in response to experience or deprivation. Scientists use sophisticated brain-imaging techniques like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or electroencephalogram (EEG) to determine how playing music affects the way our brains function. Expert musicians' auditory (hearing), visual (seeing), and motor (movement) parts of the brain are specialized, according to research using this equipment and studies of the brains of persons who have died. The increased size of each brain area, as well as the manner each area functions, are all part of the specialization. Music is more than simply a source of amusement, according to scientists; it is a crucial aspect of our lifelong learning. Here are some of the key events that occur in the brain when we listen to music (for more information, see Zatorre. Auditory: After musical training, the auditory system processes sound more effectively. People can perceive smaller frequency changes, making speech and music easier to understand. Motor: The areas of the brain that govern instrument-related muscles and body components expand. In these locations, more neurons in the brain are dedicated to fine-tuning muscular activity. Reading: Research has linked the superior musical ability to higher reading scores, implying a link between how effectively we hear speech and our ability to transfer speech sounds to letters. Socio-emotional awareness: Playing music together helps improve socio-emotional awareness, which is the ability to recognize, control, and express emotions in a positive way. Young children, for example, are more likely to interact well with others with whom they play music. What can music do for you if it doesn't influence what you hear? The auditory system is highly integrated with other sensory areas, which is why music can reach so many portions of the brain. Consider your early school days, and you're likely to recall singing songs. When trying to remember the place of a letter, many of us still sing the alphabet song. If you don't trust us, consider this: what letter follows "M" by four letters. Now tell us you weren't thinking of the alphabet song as you searched for the answer! Songs with recurring melodies and rhythms aid in the retention of lists, stories, and even processes. The auditory (hearing, in blue) region of the brain receives data from other sensory areas. Multisensory sections including the prefrontal cortex (cognition), the motor cortex (movement), and the complex auditory cortex are depicted in gray with little colored boxes indicating the senses with which they interact. Because sensory information is transferred in both directions, strong connections to and from auditory and visual areas are dubbed two-way highways (dashed orange lines). Somatosensory (touch) regions are likewise indicated in green and have two-way connections that pass information back and forth. Musacchia and Schroeder's work was adapted. Music may also be a tool for us to express our identities: the music we play, or even just listen to, can tell the world, our peers, parents, and friends something about who we are. Because singers memorize vital facts like history and family relationships in civilizations that do not employ writing, they often hold a prominent position in society. While most musical expressions of identity are good, there have been instances where one group of people felt the music of another to be threatening, if not downright dangerous. Rap music performers, for example, were detained in the late 1980s for hostile and insulting performances, according to police. While you may think of singing a song or playing an instrument as a once-in-a-while activity, you should be aware that music and musical noises pervade our daily lives. Music is played on speakers and occasionally live, and it can be heard in most public spaces, buses, elevators, and restaurants. Many of us also listen to music on our phones or in our vehicles. Our lives are certainly filled with music, and our relationship with it can have a significant impact on our learning throughout our lives.
By rayden n fincher4 years ago in Education
Mental Health
According to the current State of the World's Children report, issued this week by the United Nations children's organization UNICEF, at least 13% of people between the ages of 10 and 19 have a diagnosed mental-health disorder. This flagship study is the first in the organization's history to address the difficulties and opportunities for preventing and treating mental health problems among young people. It illustrates how complicated, understudied, and underfunded adolescent mental health is. A series of review articles released this week in a variety of Springer Nature journals echoes these conclusions.Anxiety and sadness account for more than 40% of mental-health issues in children and adolescents (ages 10–19). Suicide is the fourth most prevalent cause of mortality among adolescents (ages 15–19) worldwide, according to UNICEF (after traffic injuries, TB, and interpersonal violence). Suicide is the biggest cause of death for young people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and it is the second-highest cause in Western Europe and North America. Unfortunately, psychological suffering among young people appears to be on the rise. Depression rates among a nationally representative sample of US adolescents (aged 12 to 17) increased from 8.5 percent to 13.2 percent between 2005 and 2017, according to one study1. In several nations, there is also preliminary evidence that the coronavirus pandemic is worsening this trend. Adolescents (ages 13–18) reported significantly greater symptoms of mental ill health during the pandemic than their peers before it, according to a statewide study2 from Iceland. Girls were more likely than males to experience these symptoms. Despite the fact that the majority of mental-health illnesses begin during adolescence, UNICEF estimates that only one-third of mental-health research funding goes to young people. Furthermore, the research is fragmented – scientists participating tend to work within a few major fields, such as psychiatry, paediatrics, psychology, and epidemiology, and linkages between research and health-care services are sometimes strained. This means that effective preventative and treatment options are limited, and there is a lack of understanding of what works, when, and why. This week's roundup of review papers delves into the current state of knowledge about interventions for preventing and treating anxiety and depression in young people aged 14 to 24 - both those that work and those that don't. Young people with lived experience of anxiety and depression were co-investigators in some of the studies, helping to design and implement the reviews as well as analyze the results. Selected serotonin reuptake inhibitors, which increase serotonin levels in the brain and are meant to improve emotion and mood, are the most popular treatment for anxiety and depression around the world. However, their limited efficacy and significant side effects3 have prompted researchers to investigate alternative physiological processes that may be involved in juvenile depression and anxiety in order to create new treatments. Researchers have been looking into the possible links between depression and inflammatory illnesses like asthma, cardiovascular disease, and inflammatory bowel disease, for example. This is because many adults with depression also suffer from anxiety disorders. Furthermore, there is evidence that altering the gut microbiota during development in mice reduces behaviors linked to anxiety and depression in humans4. This shows that focusing on the gut microbiota throughout adolescence could be a potential way to help young people cope with anxiety. Kathrin Cohen Kadosh and colleagues from the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK, analyzed current evidence of therapies that changed diets to target the gut microbiome. These were found to have a negligible effect on the anxiety of young people5. However, the authors advise caution before drawing such a conclusion, citing methodological flaws (such as small sample sizes) in the research they examined. They believe that the next round of research will require larger-scale clinical trials. Researchers, on the other hand, have discovered that, under certain conditions, boosting young people's cognitive and interpersonal abilities can be more helpful in avoiding and treating anxiety and depression - though the explanation for this is unknown. According to Marc Bennett of the University of Cambridge, UK, and colleagues6, a concept known as 'decentring' or 'psychological distancing' (that is, encouraging a person to adopt an objective perspective on negative thoughts and feelings) can help both prevent and alleviate depression and anxiety, though the underlying neurobiological mechanisms are unknown. Furthermore, Alexander Daros and colleagues from the Campbell Family Mental Health Institute in Toronto, Canada, present a meta-analysis of 90 randomized controlled studies. They discovered that assisting young people in improving their emotion-regulation abilities, which are required to moderate emotional responses in challenging situations, helps them cope better with anxiety and depression7. However, it is still unclear whether these changes are the result of greater emotion management or the cause of them.
By rayden n fincher4 years ago in Education
Teacher's Pet. Top Story - June 2022.
James and I met under what you could call scandalous circumstances. I was in high school and he…well, he was not “in” high school, but I often saw him as I walked the halls between each class. Take from this description what you will.
By On the Lamb4 years ago in Education
