Distraction

following a guide on improving mental focus might not be catered to your specific needs. You truly need to learn your own personal habits and when you understand what it is that is making you lose attention you can go on to step two. Get rid of the distractions! This is a huge one for me, I do homework on the same desk that I play video games, that I watch tv, sometimes even eat. The problem with this is these insanely different actions is that with everything so accessible to me they tend to…

Much to my surprise, keeping the time log was quite difficult. I tried to fill as many slots that I could in the morning (when I knew I had something for sure planned), but that was not many. It was just too difficult to drop what I was doing and record it (even though it only took at second). What it almost always boiled down to was me racking my brain at the end of the day to figure out what I had down and when I had done it. It was difficult for me to see any distinct patterns because every…

Texting and driving or distracted driving has caused many problems, injuries, heartbreak, and even death. There are many forms of distracted driving besides texting and driving such as messing with the volume when listening to the radio, eating, setting your GPS, letting your mind wander, and talking to your passengers. It’s so easy to lose focus when you’re driving and sometimes you’ll pay the price. [1] According to the NSC, there are 1.6 million crashes that occur annually due…

Tailgating is all-too-common on the roads today. Not only does it give you little reaction time when the car in front brakes, the car also blocks your view of the road ahead. If the vehicle in front is a truck, then your lack of visibility is compounded. Tailgating a motorcyclist threatens the person's life. Motorcyclists can fall off their bikes on slippery pavement or when they hit a pothole. Should this happen to a motorcyclist just a few feet in front of you, you won't have time to avoid…

Is there ever a time when driving and you get a text message or a notification on your phone and you have to know who it is from, or what it is for? You can look at it for what feels like a second, but in all reality it was more like a minute or two; then there is the urge to reply, so you do. By the time you look back up you've gone as far as a football field and you hardly realize it. But what you do realize is that you passed McDonalds to get those french fries; so you turn around and get…

losers. More than 20 nations have better high school graduation rate. Americans are distracted by sports, and it has gone too far. Advocates of school not getting rid of sports claim sports are an American beloved tradition. However, sports are distraction, too dangerous and too much money is spent on sports. Likewise, sports get too much attention, because of that students get distracted. First, sports distract students from their education, because sports get too much attention. According…

common and that is multitasking. Multitasking takes away from the connection we have with others. We allow our technology to distract us while we are in the company of others such as at the dinner table. In the reading Can you read this without distraction, the author explains; “The more we allow ourselves to be distracted from a particular activity, the more we feel the need to be distracted” (Von Pfetten 25). The importance of this statement is individuals have mentally made the decision to…

The Paradox on the Use of Technology for Taking Notes During the first few weeks as a college freshman I identified many contrasts of a higher education and the public school system I was formed in. Grade school, and eventually secondary school, highly discouraged the use of electronics in the classroom. In fact, the use of electronic devices at all on campus was grounds for detention, a confiscation of the ‘contraband,’ and the phoning of parents to retrieve the device from the assistant…

create distractions, and cause more stress. The way it can make you shallow is that Google gives you the answer and does not allow you to think hard. If Google gives you all the answers then you are going to think superficially. “The fact is, you’ll never think deeply if you’re always Googling, texting, and surfing.” Stated in Is Google Making Us Stupid? That means you are not going to be able to use your brain power to answer the simplest question. The way technology can create…

Summary of Weaknesses (Teacher Assessments) Davy will hit himself in the head with his hand. Ms. Maestri-primary teacher Davy sometimes will bite down on his hands. Ms. Maestri-primary teacher Davy needs help to trace, write and remember numbers higher than ten. Ms. Maestri-primary teacher If Davy is playing with his peers he will sometimes grab a toy out of their hands, pinch, or put his hands around their hands or legs. Ms. Maestri-primary teacher Davy will sometime run around the classroom…