Posts Tagged ‘school’

Why Your Classes are Boring

Does your textbook make your eyes glaze over? Is the desire for a degree or diploma the only thing keeping you focused on your classes? I’ll admit the lecture format most schools use to teach material isn’t the best way to hold your attention. But I think there is a more important factor when deciding if classes keep you interested:

Are you actually using the information you’re… » Continue

December 4 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: boring, class, college, learning, Lifehack, Productivity, school, study, university | 20 comments»

Study Tip: How to Find the Hidden Bias in a Test

Life isn’t fair. Why should tests be?

Virtually all tests have have hidden biases. These biases aren’t usually large and most instructors will do their best to minimize it. However, knowing the bias of a test can be an added tool for allocating study time.

What is a Testing Bias?

Testing bias is when a test favors students who understand particular concepts or have particular types of knowledge… » Continue

November 22 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: bias, exam, hack, learning, school, study, test | 15 comments»

How to Study Less by Learning Things Once

You read over your notes. Then you read them over again. Then you read them over a third time. Then you take the test and are surprised at just how much you missed. Despite reading everything three times!

A lot of study time is wasted because of one problem: you fail to learn things the first time around.

Repeatedly going over the same information like putting a… » Continue

November 15 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: holistic, ideas, learning, school, study | 21 comments»

Advice for Students: Taking Notes that Work

Note-taking is one of those skills that rarely gets taught. Teachers and professors assume either that taking good notes comes naturally or that someone else must have already taught students how to take notes. Then we sit around and complain that our students don’t know how to take notes.

I figure it’s about time to do something about that. Whether you’re a high school junior… » Continue

September 7 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: college, notes, notetaking, school, students, studying, university | 78 comments»

Advice for students: Slow down and read

When it comes to reading, lifehacking tends to focus on speed — more words, fewer minutes. That might be fine if reading is understood as a matter of moving information with maximum efficiency from the page to the brain. The faster the connection, so to speak, the better.

But there are other kinds of reading. No one can race through a poem by Emily Dickinson or a short story by… » Continue

August 21 2007 | By Guest | Tagged: reading, school, student | 17 comments»

How to Choose a Private High School

7 Key Questions to Answer
My brother’s son is in fifth grade and is starting to think about which high school is “right” for their family. In today’s private school market, the process of choosing the school that fits your family’s needs and style is nothing short of an art-form. Fortunately, this medium can be learned by just about anyone.

What’s your motivation for a private school education?… » Continue

August 14 2007 | By Mike | Tagged: children, education, life, school, study | 7 comments»

How to study with a full-time job

When you first start a job and the paychecks start rolling in, it can become very easy to stop thinking about career development. Living for the now is very acceptable in the short-run, especially after you get financially comfortable. However, at one point or another, career development thoughts will probably start sneaking into your mind. One of the best ways to advance your career is… » Continue

February 28 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: career, Management, Productivity, school | 14 comments»

Parents Guide: How to pick a school for your children

When considering a move to a new community, it is very important to learn as much information about the potential surrounding school districts as possible. The following are three sites aimed at providing information to parents who may be considering a move. Each site allows you to search by school name, district, or state:

Great Schools

School Matters

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January 24 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: children, school, tip | 1 comment»

Roundup: 11 Important Student Tips and Advices

On top of today’s interview with Michael Leddy - I want to round up number of great student tips and advices that Michael has given throughout the year. These articles get you around if you are a student - these advices are extremely valuable for your school years. Specifically, these articles could help you answer all these questions: How to start sucessfully as a freshman? Where to study?… » Continue

December 8 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: school, student, studying, university | 3 comments»

Empower Students with mynoteIT.com

I had a chance recently to review mynoteIT, which comes off as a kind of Backpack for students. But what’s great about it (and where I think Alex and Justin Weidmann have hit a home run with this product) is that they’ve specialized the program. It’s truly built for students. Listen to some of these features:

Give them your scores, they’ll calculate your grade.
Spot to plug in your teachers’ contact

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August 24 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: backtoschool, education, learning, mynoteit, school, software, students, website | 5 comments»

Help Your Kids With Math

Barbie was wrong. Math isn’t hard. Teaching math in a way that’s engaging is hard. But it doesn’t have to be.

Math is Fun has a page full of resources for parents and teachers. There are shapes, logic puzzles, times tables, but also Connect Four (this teaches what in math?), and a game about creating an alien using coordinates (I thought Etch-a-Sketch was tricky!).

If you’ve got a kid going… » Continue

June 2 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: education, kids, learning, math, school | 3 comments»