Time Wasters/ All Pets R Smart

Decision

 This week I used the time wasters strategy for all my classes and the All Pets R Smart strategy for my EDU 200 class. I chose the time wasters because it was required, and the All Pets R Smart strategy because me EDU class is very lecture intensive and the notes taken from that class were directly on the midterm.

Prep and Application

For the Time Wasters strategy I simply thought about what I do in the day that is unnecessary or causes procrastination. The biggest time wasters I found in my day were: Cleaning my room, texting, and napping. All three of these I used to avoid starting or finishing my homework. To remedy these behaviors I decided the best course of action was to start going elsewhere besides my room to do my work so I tempted by less distraction, also for cleaning my room I decided to set up a cleaning time and to stop napping I need to start drinking more coffee.

All Pets R Smart works by first attending the lecture and trying to create a lens or focus for the reading, then you skim the readings and to try and predict what the author is going to discuss. Then you actually read the work and finish by summarizing the important information within the reading. I thought that this would be a good strategy for EDU 200 class; however, by using this strategy I made a discovery. The readings are less about gathering new information and more about giving examples of what we are learning about in next weeks class, so a strategy that requires one to attend lecture first is kind of pointless.

LAME

Neither of these strategies really applied to my learning type. The actions needed to use the time wasters strategy is pretty simple, you just need to think about your behaviors proactively, but for the All Pets R Smart strategy you simply need to follow the steps. Materials: pad and pen. Evaluation: The All Pets R Smart strategy didn’t really work for me and the Time Wasters strategy is a good exercise.