Posts Tagged ‘students’

Literary Gluttony - How to Consume More Books This Year

Over 40% of Americans claim not to have read any books in the previous year. The survey was last conducted in 2002, and noted falling reading rates from previous years. I’m sure if you’re reading through lifehack.org that you probably don’t expect reading to stop after you graduate. Yet, with such dismal statistics, how can you beat the odds and read more books this year?

Why Bother… » Continue

January 8 2008 | By Scott H | Tagged: books, improvement, learning, Lifehack, new years resolution, read, reading, speed read, students, studying | 51 comments»

Study Tip: Why Aiming for A is Better Than A+

Is it better to get an A or an A+? Most people instinctively react with an A+. As I’d like to show in this article, that isn’t always the case. Being perfect can cost far more than good enough. Also, as I’d like to demonstrate, the habits that might get you an A+ might also leave you with a B or C if you fail… » Continue

November 20 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: 80/20, learning, Lifehack, pareto, Productivity, students, study, university | 14 comments»

Put an Office in Your Pocket

Just about everyone these days knows how useful a USB thumb drive can be for moving files from place to place. For people on the go, who may find themselves sing a variety of different computers, a thumb drive offers more than just portable storage. With very little work and no money aside from the original expense of the drive itself, you can easily turn a thumb drive… » Continue

October 8 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: mobile, portableapps, program, students, thumbdrive, virtualoffice | 38 comments»

Advice for Students: How to Talk to Professors

A while back, I recommended that students get to know their professors. I realize, though, that many students are intimidated or put off by their professors. This is especially so when students need something — a favor, special help with an assignment, a second chance on a test.

It doesn’t need to be that way. Professors are people, just like everyone else, and if… » Continue

September 14 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: conversation, professors, students, talk | 17 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: Use a Wiki for Better Note-Taking

It’s back to school time, and it’s time to make good on the promises you made yourself last year to be more organized this time around! One of the stumbling blocks I see most often in my students is taking — and keeping — good notes for their classes. Ideally, you’d like to have notes on all your reading, as well as notes from lectures, and you’d like… » Continue

August 22 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: notes, notetaking, students, study, studying, tool, web, web2.0, webtools, wiki | 40 comments»

Advice for Students: How to Write Research Papers that Rock!

No assignment save the comprehensive final exam seems to engender such fear in students as the research paper, especially the open topic research paper. Faced with the prospect of writing 5, 8, 12, or more pages on a topic of their choosing, a lot of students panic, unsure what to write about and how to research it. Far too often, students endanger their grades and even their… » Continue

July 18 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: education, howto, learning, research, researchpaper, students, writing | 78 comments»

The New World of Today’s Student

When I think back over a lifetime of learning, I realize that there were certain times I was a great student, and others in which I was just going through the motions, reaping relatively little from the effort.

My schooling was a period of time when I learned pretty intensively because that was simply the overall expectation, and without work or age as conflicting contenders for my attentions, learning in school… » Continue

October 12 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: curriculum, knowledge, learning, mastery, students, wisdom | 13 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»

5 Things to Bring to College

Christopher S. Penn does the impossible: he records a daily podcast about financial aid and student loans, and he makes it interesting. The most recent episode I listened to (#331 by the way) had a really great list for college students heading back in a few weeks to their next semester. The list is interesting, but when you listen to the podcast, Chris goes into explaining why he thinks these… » Continue

August 15 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: backtoschool, college, financialaid, returning, students | 4 comments»