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Goal setting is an important part of succeeding in college. By setting goals, you accomplish the following: You set a ‘road map’ for where you want to go. You are able to select the most appropriate method(s) for reaching your goal. You are able to more easily gauge your progress toward your goal. You are able to make adjustments to your goal and methods as needed. You know when you have reached your goal and can appreciate your accomplishment. Students can prioritize their academic goals based on both importance levels as well as timeliness of the projected end-dates. Some goals will be immediate tasks that must be accomplished within the next month. Other goals will be short-range of six months to a year, while others are long term and taking more than a year to accomplish. For effective goal setting and achievement, you must observe the following: Set goals based on something that is very important to you! State goals positively. “I will study every night for two hour...

Setting deadlines is essential to productivity. It can help students finish school projects, follow New Year’s resolutions, or achieve other short- and long-term goals. It also helps to build intrinsic motivation. Deadlines are so effective because they make large projects or goals more manageable. Breaking up projects into a series of smaller tasks makes them easier to complete and prevents you from waiting until the last minute to finish your work. Once you figure out which tasks you need to complete, organize them into steps. Assign deadlines to these steps to ensure everything is completed before the final due date. Next, you can schedule time on your calendar for each step and set time limits to keep yourself on track. Consider these tips while you set deadlines. Schedule each step on your calendar. This will prevent you from procrastinating and missing deadlines. Write down your deadlines. Writing down your goals and how to achieve them helps you analyze your thou...

Nowadays, integration of technology and learning comes very easy to us. However, there are still some people who remain clueless about it and the great benefits it can provide. Do you want to use technology to improve your learning skills and productivity but you don't know how or where to start? Read below the top gadgets with which you can get started. Speech-Recognition Software Today there are a variety of speech-recognition programs. One software program that is getting a lot of hype is Dragon Naturally Speaking. This program is being used in many different fields and lucky enough for us, it is making its way into education hop on board! Dragon is a speech-recognition software program that allows you to speak words that are translated into text at a much faster rate than most people can type. One might say that using Dragon is like having a personal scribe! This technology has many implications in the classroom. This type of program can be used during writing activities to...

Gone are the days when students and teachers don’t see eye to eye with regard to the proper use of smartphones in the classroom. Certain trends in education now encourage the use of these devices for better learning among students and for enabling more effective teaching strategies by educators. The following list shows the positive changes in classrooms that were brought about by the use of smartphones. Check facts quickly – There’s no need for teachers to put a discussion on hold while they verify certain facts. They can now do this in a few seconds using their smartphones. Carry out tests easily – Students can now take quizzes and tests on their smartphones. This helps teachers to save time which would otherwise be needed to print and distribute test papers. It also allows teachers to assess their students’ knowledge immediately after a discussion has taken place. Use of learning aids – Smartphone accessories and apps like a calculator, converter, dictionary and translator can...

Do you wonder why some people are able to accomplish more things than you do when we all have only 24 hours in a day? I personally believe that one reason for this is the use of an effective system which includes strategies that help you manage time and work more effectively. Kill procrastination - Procrastination keeps most people from accomplishing tasks on time and taking in new tasks. Find out the causes of your procrastination and intentionally arrest them. When you procrastinate, you're more open to distractions. You also lose the sense of urgency to complete tasks. Overcome perfectionism - Sometimes perfectionism can be a bottleneck in your production process. You could be wasting a lot of energy and time repeating the same tasks because the results are less than perfect. If the details are good enough, submit your work as done and move on to the next task. Reduce mental clutter - A clutter-free mind has a sharpened focus. Hence, you will be able to accomplish tasks ...

Have you ever heard of mind mapping? Most people who have difficulty understanding certain concepts or principles use mind mapping. It is a visual tool that is used to structure information and users better analyze, understand, synthesize, recall and generate new ideas. It can also be used in note taking; brainstorming; problem solving; planning; studying and memorization; researching, presenting and consolidating information from multiple sources; and gaining insight on complex subjects. So how do you go about mind mapping? Here are some quick steps: 1) Get a blank white paper in landscape orientation. Start drawing or writing the main idea you’re about to develop in the center of the paper. 2) Draw a line from the center image (main idea or topic) to develop related subtopics. 3) From the subtopics, create lower sub-topics Repeat the same process for the subtopics, generating lower-level subtopics as you see fit, connecting each of those to the corresponding subtopic. Rem...