For many high school graduates, their expectations for their very first year of college can be very exciting, but also frightening as a college-setting are comparably different to a high school. Personally, entering college was nerve-wracking; a brand new school, a brand new system, and I had to part ways with all my high school friends. I expected professors barrage me with a myriad amount of work on day one; however instead of exacerbating my worries, my new teachers gave us warm welcomes and a relatively easy week of work. Through the semester, I met many new friends and quickly adapted to the new environment. Overall, from English 1303 I developed an improved writing skill and overcame my worries and weaknesses. My highest hopes for the semester were to improve my writing skills. Through English 1303, I learned how to use a semicolon and developed my sentence-making skills. The most helpful activities were the pre-writing work. Usually, I would dive straight into the rough draft when starting a paper. I find the sticky notes and outlines beneficial to progress my writing skills and I will continue using them for …show more content…
Fortunately, I overcame my procrastination and time management faults, making school work my top priority before enjoying leisure time. Although I start working right away, that doesn’t stop me from picking up my phone every ten minutes. No matter when I start my work, an assignment that should take half an hour to finish might take me an hour to finish because of these distractions. However, an unexpected factor did lead me to become easily distracted. My Freshman Year Seminar created a group chat together as a class, diverting my attention to reply to friends and interrupting my homework session. Next semester, I will try to make use of apps that lockdown my phone to prevent any distractions stopping me from finishing my
I have always found ways of doing my homework assignments while doing something else; mainly due to the fact that I am bored or not totally engaged with the subject. I feel the need to fill the empty space that was revolving around in my mind. When I went to high school there were not any type of digital distractions allowed; we had complete and total silence while completing assignments at school. However, when we got home we turned on the latest episode of “Home Improvement” and did our homework with our TV dad Tim Allen. This was a favorite distraction back then, now the cell phones have become a constant in our lives. “Given that these distractions aren’t going away, academic and even professional achievement may depend on the ability to ignore digital temptation while learning” (Paul 720). I have not owned a cell phone in over five years; even though I do not own one, I have seen numerous people in the classroom setting pop in and out of their messages and social networks. I thought to myself while seeing this, how are people focusing on the assignment before them? I still don’t get it but to each their
In fact, I began this semester with plans to accomplish skills that would eventually bring me to an understanding of what a great writer is. During the summer I attended an English mini course which proved to be just a quick version of some high school rules on writing, that did not require much thinking or writing tasks, but it did provide an understanding of what was going to be expected in colle...
According to a survey done by Pew Research in 2012, 75% of teens ages twelve to seventeen text and half of teens send sixty or more text messages a day, or eighteen hundred a month. This staggering amount of text messaging means that half of all teens are being interrupted in their day and are being distracted from what they were doing. With 15% of teens who are texters sending more than two hundred texts a day or more than six thousand texts a month, it is obvious that texting has become an addictive form of social media and is distracting many teens from getting any work done at all. Homework is interrupted when teens become distracted from notifications of a new chat messages from a social networking site, texts, or emails. There are even some young Americans who find themselves checking their phone for messages, alerts, or calls despite not hearing their phone ringing or vibrating. Research by Professor Larry Rosen at California State University shows that around 64% of those born after 1985 are checking their texts every fifteen minutes and nearly 40% are checking in on Facebook. With many young
College students today use technology not only in their personal lives, but as a necessity to complete their studies. Students use everything from smartphones, tablets, and laptops to gain instantaneous access to information, to turn in assignments, and other various uses. College students are distracted in and out the classroom by multitasking instead of focusing solely on their studious work. To add to the problem of multitasking and the use of technology is the general busy pace of life itself. This converges into consequences that can impact students’ work. Students may be unaware that there is even a problem because it is a societal norm to use technology and to be busy. In order to regain focus, there are several methods that can be utilized
Montesano High School students will benefit from “The Screen Free Week.” It will help with our learning. “The greater our concentration, the richer our thoughts.” students phones are a humongous distraction, most of the teenagers have their phones on them 24/7, while 99% of them are on it searching through snapchat, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. While students are searching, they are not thinking about what they are learning. “If
Multitasking kills everyday activities. The ability to distract yourself and work on two or more things at once is, overall, a difficult task. It prohibits the quality of student academics, occupational tasks, or enjoyable hobbies/interests. It is argued that multitasking can only benefit the academic or employment career of an individual; Truthfully, multitasking is nothing more than a distraction to academics/employment careers as they lose the ability to learn, lose motivation to focus, and it physically makes it impossible to focus on one thing. The younger generation lives in a world where everything and anything can be reached by a simple search on their phones.
This semester was my very first semester as a college student. Being the first, it was probably the semester I would learn the most in. I learned the expectations for writing that I will have to live up to for the next four years of my college career. Though my high school teachers were usually demanding because I was in the Honors English section throughout high school, writing in college has still ?raised the bar? for me. Also, in high school, we would have weeks to pick a topic, create a thesis, outline the paper, write the paper, and then revise the paper. In college, the time restraints are not quite as lenient. I?ve had to learn to manage my time and be more productive with what free moments I have. Strangely enough, I?ve found the college English experience to be much more rewarding and enjoyable than in high school.
Many students use their devices for entertainment purposes as apposed to just using them for typing papers for Mrs.Kalm's class or studying for Mr. Tucker’s history final. Such apps such as Twitter or Instagram can become a big distraction for students. A solution for this problem is to provide student’s with their own devices that can be strictly just for school purposes. The teacher that allows full control over all of the students using the devices can monitor these devices. School devices that students use today don't work to their full potential as some of their own devices but what students don't realize is that it's keeping them focused and on track to get their work done. In addition to this problem, having no rules on what they can really do leads to having no discipline. Devices being used in classrooms today owned by the school district are monitoring what students are actually doing on their devices. This discipline let's students use devices besides the standard computer and it lets teachers keep a tight grip on their students. In conclusion, Distraction can be either the biggest problem in your classroom or it can be as simple as re-directing a student and what he or she really needs to be ...
This article discusses the distractions and effects of mutli-tasking and using our electronic devices constantly. "Multitasking is never a good idea if you really need to get something done" (p. 26). When we get a text message or look at our phones an addictive chemical called dopamine is released into our brains. Laptops, mobile devices, and interruptions hinder our learning and focus. Although technology can be very helpful, it has caused many negative situations such as car accidents, poor grades, and bullying.
The problem I have is my phone is turning into a phone addiction which is making me distracted with school work. I focused allot on myself. I set up goals for myself to change my phone addiction and distraction. In two weeks I put my phone locked on my apps for 30 minutes each time I log in to social media. So I could focus on doing actual things and not being distracted by my phone.
In fact, multitasking slowdown the ability and performance, because human brain can only focus one thing at a time. In addition, research has uncovered that multitasking in a learning environment greatly affects the students’ performance grade level. “A survey found that 73 percent of young people can’t study without some form technology and 38% can’t last ten minutes without checking their technology” (Taylor12). The use of smart phones for texting and streaming entertainment networking sites, such as Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube is the activities that involve the most multitasking while learning and has become common behavior among students. According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, “today 82%of kids are online by the seventh grade”
Technological gadgets which promote internet surfing, gaming, chatting, gossip, etc. have become very ubiquitous across most educational levels today all over the world. Though technology in itself is a great tool to enhance learning, it can also become a student’s biggest distraction if care is not taken. I am not going to leave you helpless. Below are some tips on how to avoid distractions. These tips also help you avoid procrastination too.
The average person spends 135 minutes on social media per day, and according to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Writers np.), distractions are at an all-time high when college students are in the classroom. Unrelated class activities including, social media, text
As we integrate technology into our lives more and more, it’s no surprise that technology is increasingly finding its way into our nation’s classrooms. Administration, teachers, and students all have access to technology, even some small enough to fit into the palm of our hands. These technologies provide many beneficial teaching tools and learning supplement opportunities if used in the correct way. They also can provide as a hefty distraction. The norm for college campuses is for every student to own and use an electronic device, primarily a laptop or tablet, to take notes during a lecture or use to complete an assignment or reading. Trying to complete a difficult assignment or listening to a less than interesting lecture can easily be interrupted by a seemingly more interesting text messages or Facebook statuses. Students are not realizing the costs associated with this type of “media multitasking.” Multitasking in the academic world can be as reckless as texting and driving. Dividing your attention between two tasks is more time consuming and the overall performance is reduced. Media multitasking is illogical and counterproductive to effective theoretical learning and collegiate education. Completing tasks by giving an undivided attention and by ignoring and avoiding media distractions will produce more productive and successful processes and outcomes.
Electronic devices, such as phones and laptops, are becoming an immense distraction in schools, and they appear to be negatively impacting learning (Carrier, Rosen, Cheever, & Lim, 2015). As students spend vast amounts of time listening to lectures and completing assigned readings, the use electronic devices increases