What's best for school, a laptop, tablet, or PC?
Heading back to school always feels like a fresh start. And like a new set of clothes, getting a new device just makes you feel good.
But for high school and college students, freshmen especially, the choice of technology can really impact academic performance. The wrong choice can make school difficult or, worse, become an excuse not to do well.
Into the start of the 2016-17 school year, I thought it's time for an update from previous posts here on the topic. The technologies haven't changed much, but there are more options — and most importantly, more affordable ones.
College bound: desktop, laptop or tablet? PC or Mac?
Fight the need to finish now!
Getting started on studying, homework and large assignments means just that: start a little now — and don't worry about finishing until later.
Cramming is a difficult habit to break. The best technique for breaking the cramming cycle is to "smooth out your workflow" by just "getting started," whether or not you'll finish it now.
Yet getting started on homework, studying and tests can be so hard, especially when we pressure ourselves to get it done all at once.
Choosing technology, especially deciding between laptops, desktop, and tablets is not getting any easier.
The reason: they're getting to be all the same!
AP Exams! Are these classes really all that "advanced"?
Welcome to the Advanced Placement exams. But is it really the blank check it's supposed to be?
AP exams start in a week (May 5 – 16), so, yea.
Today's Guest: Mischa Beckett, Ph.D. Political Science and college lecturer.
but a bad report card is something that parents (and kids) need to handle with tact and grace, as hard as that may sometimes be.
Maybe, but flattery will work better. Seriously.
The highest and most effective form of teacher flattery is asking a teacher for help. The next highest is actually doing your work. You meet teacher expectations, you get an A. Easy enough.
Oh, my, colleges are suffering from low enrollment. At $40K a year, ya think?
Please read this with glee. I do, especially after paying $45,000 a year for my daughter's school in Boston. My son started at the very expensive music school, Berkley College in Boston, and decided not to return, telling me "it's a waste of money.". You don't hear that line from your kids very often, but according to him it was. My daughter's school, Simmons College, also in Boston, she and I both agree is worth every cent. But that's a lot of cents.
College costs have risen significantly faster than other cost-of-living increases in the last twenty years.
My uneducated guess is that 20% of students pay full tuition, 40% pay mostly full tuition, and those 60% subsidize the other 40% who are on scholarships or are heavily subsidized.
Our society has yet to decide whether or not college is a "life experience" or an education.
Post-graduate success is predicted more accurately by college admission than by college graduation.
Sorry to be cynical here, but let's speak the truth here. But let's also be glad that what goes around comes around, and the "college bubble" has hit a top. Enjoy the crash, and make sure you're taking advantage, finally, of the new buyers market in education.