CS-CV0005 - Mind & Study - toolbox for being well in studies, Lectures, 26.2.2024-21.4.2024
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Översikt
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Welcome to the third course week!
In this week's materials and tasks, you will learn about stress, recovery and concentration. You get to learn what stress is and how it affects your mind and state of alertness, as well as how to find tools for recovery. What kind of skills do you already have to regulate your state of alertness to facilitate learning? How does stress affect concentration? How to create favorable conditions (for the brain) for concentration? And how do you practice your own long-term concentration?
Pausing in this moment
Each course week will start with an invitation to pause in this moment. It means giving yourself a chance to calm down and become aware of what's going on with you right now, in this moment. This pausing can happen in many different ways, for example with a short guided relaxation-exercise or a relaxing stretching-break of a few minutes. For one person, for example, setting the phone to alarm in 3 minutes and just looking out of the window is very calming, while another may prefer to write down the thoughts running through their mind or maybe drink a cup of tea or coffee in peace without additional distractions. What could be a suitable way for you to pause?
One option is to do the familiar mindfulness exercise, hour-glass-exercise:
This week's assignments are:
- Read and make notes: Stress and state of alertness
- Listen and think: Tips for recovery
- Read or listen about concentration
- Submit individual assignments
- Peer group meeting (face-to-face or via video link) and returning the memo
- Finally: What will you take away from this week?
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Individual assignment (book 1-2h)
Before starting with these assignments, read thoroughly the material and your notes for this week. Then answer the following questions in a free-form text. The most essential thing for you is to take the time to reflect on the questions on your own part.
Write a short reflection on how you have recovered during this week. You can for example answer the following questions:
- How do I take care of recovery during the week?
- Have I noticed moments when the state of alertness was too high or too low? What signs helped me notice these?
- Have I learned something new from the study psychologists’ 10 hints for recovery?
- Do I disagree with some of the hints?
- What would be the smallest next step to help me even better take care of recovery?
Submit your answer via the “Add submission” button below. The submission format is online text instead of file submissions, because of your privacy. Teachers can read online texts in MyCourses, while files must be downloaded for reading them. We still recommend you to save your texts for yourself in a suitable file format.
Note that only course teachers can see your submissions. Please don’t include any sensitive information, such as time of birth, social security number or any personal health information, in your response.
After submitting the assignment, pause for a while to reflect, and answer the questions for the week!
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Instructions for the Week 3 group discussion:
At first, feel free to share something about your week and how you have been. In case you meet online, please turn on your cameras, whenever possible. Agree on turns for keeping notes and submitting the memo after the meeting via the "Add submission" button below. One of the best practices is to rotate this task on weekly basis.
Each of you is allowed to decide how much and at what level you want to tell about your individual assignment answers. The main point is that each group member has the opportunity to take part in the discussion and everyone is listened to. See the Guidelines for peer group discussions in the Orientation week material.
Discuss in free format at least about the following topics:
- What kinds of thoughts did this course week’s material and individual assignments provoke?
- What kind of structure of a study day supports recovering and concentration?
- What kind of surroundings are functional for you during your study day?
- What kinds of breaks help you to recover during your study day?
- What do you need during your study week, so as not to have too much stress?
- What helps you free/disengage yourself from your studies?
The note taker makes notes and in the end of the meeting, go through together the most important points in your discussion. The note taker writes these down and submits the memo as soon after the meeting as possible. There are no minimum or maximum lengths for the memo, but it should cover the topics you have discussed.