- Online games are popular for a number of reasons. First, they offer interactive challenges that are unique in that they can be accessed from the comfort of your own home. It is rather affordable and easy to access in today's age of technology. Many online games are rewarding because they offer the opportunity to try new strategies again and again until the right outcome is achieved. I personally am a huge fan of strategy games online because I feel that they challenge me to think hard and make plans to achieve my goal. One drawback of these activities is that they can be addicting and tiring. It could also result in too much time screen time which is not healthy. I think that online games do offer a plethora of opportunities for learning. I think these are valuable opportunities because they promote learning by using a modern tool that most 21st century citizens are already familiar with (computers/the internet).
- When I find myself doubtful about my ability to succeed, it is definitely a challenge to work up the motivation to finish my work. To combat this, I try to tackle my tasks in smaller dosages so they are more manageable. I get stressed out when I let work/projects pile up to the point where I am overwhelmed and don’t know where to start. I often try to prioritize the tasks I am least interested so I can get them out of the way and then focus on the things I am more passionate about.
- I am a huge fan of lists, post-its, and writing. To remember new things, I will either write them down somewhere (on a post-it, in my planner, or even on a receipt/napkin), or I will try to come up with a mental repetition/association game to help me remember. For example, whenever I need a rental car, I will memorize the tag number by coming up with an acronym or saying that represents the characters on the license plate. I will repeat this in my head a number of times. This usually works pretty well for me–I could still tell you what my plate number was when I went to Hawaii 9 years ago! For some reason, there are only a few things like that that work for me mentally. Most of the time, I need to write with a pen and paper. I am not a big fan of writing things down in the notes section of my phone; for some reason, I feel like typed information does not engrain itself into long-term memory the same way as physically writing something out. I have also read some research that supported this idea, but with the technology age being still relatively new, I would be interested in reading larger studies about these concepts.
