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Jonn Nudell

Does music help you concentrate on homework? | Answerbag - 2 views

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classical music studying doing homework instrumental

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  • Classical music has been widely touted as favorable to intelligence. According to Sylvan Learning centers, studies indicate that soft, classical musical aids in concentration, and, according to Scholastic, studies also indicate that classical music stimulates the section of the brain used in math.
  • Instrumental music playing lightly in the background can help prevent outside distractions, making it easier to focus on homework.
  • Loud music with words can often be more distracting than beneficial if you are trying to study.
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  • However, you may be able to tune out the lyrics of a song, get into the rhythm of the music and study more effectively while songs you like are playing.
  • While classical music has proven in studies to be good for the thought process, even it can be distracting for some people. Trial and error is the only way to know how distracting music will be for you.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 31 Oct 10
       
      Sites such as this one are not the most credible. Look for a .edu extension. See me for help here. Oct 31
steven bloom

The Good and Bad Effects of Video Games - 1 views

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shared by steven bloom on 06 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Following instructions                o    Problem solving and logic                 o    Hand-eye coordination, fine motor and spatial skills
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 06 Oct 10
       
      What is the utility of highlight thisÉ
  • Resource management and logistics
  • Multitasking, simultaneous tracking of many shifting variables and managing multiple objectives
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 06 Oct 10
       
      Your highlighting should be carefully chosen and reflect the thesis and main idea of the article, or at least what you want to remember about why this article is important in your research.
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  • Quick thinking, making fast analysis and decisions
  • Strategy and anticipation
  • Developing reading and math skills
  • Perseverance
  • Memory                o    Reasoned judgments               
  • Estimating skills                o    Inductive reasoning and hypothesis testing
  • Mapping
  • Pattern recognition
  • Teamwork and cooperation when played with others
  • Simulation, real world skills
  • Too much video game playing makes your kid socially isolated.  Also, he may spend less time in other activities such as doing homework, reading, sports, and interacting with the family and friends.   Video games do not exercise your kid’s imaginative thinking.  Using imagination may be important in developing creativity.   Some video games teach kids the wrong values.  Violent behavior, vengeance and aggression are rewarded.  Negotiating and other nonviolent solutions are often not options.  Women are often portrayed as weaker characters that are helpless or sexually provocative.    Games can confuse reality and fantasy. Academic achievement may be negatively related to over-all time spent playing video games. Studies have shown that the more time a kid spends playing video games, the poorer is his performance in school.  (Anderson & Dill, 2000; Gentile, Lynch & Walsh, 2004) Video games may also have bad effects on some children’s health, including obesity, video-induced seizures. and postural, muscular and skeletal disorders, such as tendonitis, nerve compression, carpal tunnel syndrome. When playing online, your kid can pick up bad language and behavior from other people, and may make your kid vulnerable to online dangers.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 06 Oct 10
       
      This is better, even though it`s a tad long.
  • steven bloom on 06 Oct 10
     
    This website gives us all the good and bad affects of video gaming for example inproves spatial and hand eye coordination, improves problem solving and logic. All these things that video games do for us may have an explanation on why the averages of the students who play video games our higher or lower. Basically this website helps us make connection between a characteristic such as problem solving and the subject math. This is a reliable website because the information is brought by the raise kids network
  • Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
     
    Same comment as above.
Jonn Nudell

Can Listening to Music Help Us Work Better? - 1 views

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music while studying doing homework effect

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  • We know that music can alter your mood
  • . Films have been using musical scores for years to create the right mood for a scene. At times you hardly notice the music at all but you are very receptive to the mood being conveyed. So can we use music to put us in a "productive" mood?
  • Research seems to support such a claim. For example, a trial where 75 out of 256 workers at a large retail company were issued with personal stereos to wear at work for four weeks showed a 10% increase in productivity for the headphone wearers. Other similar research conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois found a 6.3% increase when compared with the no music control group.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 31 Oct 10
       
      same comment as the other two Oct 31
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  • f your goal is to increase your concentration then music which has a constant, easy beat and light melodies are recommended.
  • they help you pace your reading to aid focus and memorising. Baroque music is reported as an excellent example, especially the works of Vivaldi, Bach and Handel.
  • the Russian Academy of Sciences discovered that a person's ability to recognize visual images, including letters and numbers, is faster when either rock or classical music is playing in the background
  • If you are aiming to be more productive through being more relaxed, then you may be interested to learn that research has shown that music with an upbeat rhythm can reduce stress hormone levels by as much as 41%.
  • Apparently cows will produce more milk if Mozart is played.
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