Learning Challenge: Food for Thought
For this post, I used the following article: Students are most creative at lunchtime, study suggests
This article confirmed that student academic performance typically decreases after lunch time. I have had personal experience with this phenomenon. I find myself in classes after lunch, feeling tired and unfocused. Often, I have to urge myself to stay awake and pay attention. I found that classes in the late afternoons were especially difficult for me to concentrate since they immediately followed my lunch period. As such, I had to work even harder outside of class in order to learn the material.
This article also taught me how midday activities foster creativity from students. Midday activities during lunchtime demonstrates increased alertness, arousal, and overall positive effects. I haven't realized it until I read this article, but I often find myself during lunchtime to be more social and involved in conversation and attentiveness.
As such, I'm curious to learning more about how I could strategically plan my activities around lunchtime to take advantage of this phenomenon. If I play my cards right, I could prioritize my academic activities during lunch when my productivity level is highest during the day. Thus, I'd have more time to focus on other subsequent activities during the 'post-lunch dip' in the late afternoon as I would already have my core activities finished by then.
This article confirmed that student academic performance typically decreases after lunch time. I have had personal experience with this phenomenon. I find myself in classes after lunch, feeling tired and unfocused. Often, I have to urge myself to stay awake and pay attention. I found that classes in the late afternoons were especially difficult for me to concentrate since they immediately followed my lunch period. As such, I had to work even harder outside of class in order to learn the material.
This article also taught me how midday activities foster creativity from students. Midday activities during lunchtime demonstrates increased alertness, arousal, and overall positive effects. I haven't realized it until I read this article, but I often find myself during lunchtime to be more social and involved in conversation and attentiveness.
As such, I'm curious to learning more about how I could strategically plan my activities around lunchtime to take advantage of this phenomenon. If I play my cards right, I could prioritize my academic activities during lunch when my productivity level is highest during the day. Thus, I'd have more time to focus on other subsequent activities during the 'post-lunch dip' in the late afternoon as I would already have my core activities finished by then.
Food for Thought Graphic with Light Bulb - Courtesy of Uninhibited Wellness
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