Let me ask you: what are your children doing while they are working on the homework assignment? Although the answer seems to be obvious "They are doing their homework!... Doing just one thing at a time seems luxurious, even wasteful. ... It may seem your children can simultaneously do homework, write a message and watch YouTube, but in fact they are "task-switching", moving from one task to another, deciding which one to do at any one time. ... According to Jordan Grafman, "chief of the neuroscience section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke,&qu...

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But how does all this multitasking affect us? ... When we try to do many things at once, we do everything slowly and badly. ... Doing many things at the same time can affect us our lives. ... The author explained the experiment of Stanford University, some students were asked to do all the things at the same time while others were asked to do individual to see who memorize better by taking a memory test. ... For example; when I'm in my house doing my homework I always have the TV or music on. ...

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In what ways do emotions affect our acquisition of knowledge? ... For example anxiety or anger in a learning situation could affect the "working memory" and the student could forget very quickly everything he has learnt on that particular day, another example would be when a student goes to an exam and is really stressed and even if he had revised and prepared himself well for the exam but is still not confident about it, when he goes into the exam room and when he sees the supervisors and the exam paper in front of him, he can have a sudden "block" in the memory and looks at the questions ...

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Everyday, without even thinking about it, we put words and phrases together to form thoughts and ideas in order to hold conversations, write letters, do homework, etc. Not once in this communication cycle do we think more or less about grammar. ...

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Centering prayer is something many or all should go to. As a college student, going to events like these seem really boring and time-consuming. You look at a centering prayer and think, "Man this is going to be the longest 30 minutes of my life." All that changed once I actually went. Dr. Quantz cam...

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The speaker is able to connect with his readers by resembling the split path in the woods with an instance when one is stuck and has to choose between one thing over another, like doing homework or going to the movies. ...

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, ''what do we know about them?''... '' and ''what end do we aim to achieve?''. Since we chose the category ''ordering'', we thought it could be appropriate to do the lesson with 8th graders. ... After the sixth step, we decided to give them homework as a follow-up activity which is intended to recycle the newly-learned structural element. ... However, at this point, we also embrace a socio-cultural stance because we thought that just because we assume they are going to use ''would like' does not mean tha...

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A person who is widely read is a better communicator than those who do not read. ... On the other hand, the students who have reading problems are commonly the slow readers, most students learn to decode easily but they read slowly which slow down homework efficiency and individual performance in their examination. ... It has something to do with the economic status of the students. ... How do the respondents perform on the reading activities? In what specific area/areas do they meet difficulties? ...

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