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Mr. Webb
The article I read this week from Science Daily (article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130226081155.htm) talking about the importance of sleep. Dr. Ines Wilhelm says, "Studies of adults have shown that sleeping after learning supports the long-term storage of the material learned." She conducted the same study on children and found ""In children, much more efficient explicit knowledge is generated during sleep from a previously learned implicit task." In the study, the data showed that after a full day of learning at school and at different hours of sleep, the children that got the most sleep did a better job remembering and applying the information they learned the day before.
This article is extremely relevant to my life and other serious students. The pressure to do well and still complete the hours of homework we have a night takes a toll on how much we sleep. I think if school directors would look at the study they could reconsider homework, project, and essay outlines.
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This is a very interesting post! I find it fascinating that sleeping after you study makes you remember it better. Do you think that if more awareness is raised about this topic that it would make some schools reconsider homework, projects, and essays?
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ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you about how teachers should reconsider how much homework they assign to students daily and how this greatly affects our sleeping time and thus, our abilities to learn further. It is not very surprising that adults and children both benefit from sleeping right after learning and that children actually generate knowledge while sleeping. I know this probably wasn't mentioned in the article, but are dreams affected by the knowledge that humans learned during the day?
It is so interesting to know that if we have a better sleep, we will memorize the knowledge we learned during the day better. A nice sleep can not only actually help us study more efficiently but also make our bodies healthier. Since we have a lot of work to do everyday, not enough sleep is provided. I am agree with you that schools need to reconsider the amount of work we have to do everyday in order to give us more sleep. I am wondering that if dreams can also help us to memorize stuff. All in all, sleep become more and more important for students nowadays.
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ReplyDeleteI think that your post is very informational and I think that you spent a lot of time in thinking about your answer. I think that you make a very good point. I think that getting a good nights sleep is very conducive to learning and it can help you absorb more information. I think that you also make a very good point in that you say that teachers should reevaluate how much they assign at night because it could allow for students to get more sleep each night.
Caroline, this is an important post to remember as you continue to study or begin any career. Sleep is so essential to our well being and many forget that it improves our ability to perform better in whatever task we may be doing!
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