After hitting snooze at least three times on my
cell phone alarm clock, I wake up and start my day. In the process of still trying to wake up and avoiding
getting out of bed, I check my phone and respond to any missed texts from the
night. I also check my phone calendar for anything important I need to do that
day. While getting ready for
class, I put some music on from either Pandora or my itunes on my computer. At this time, I take a quick look
at facebook, just for a few minutes because time is always short in the
mornings. I check the weather app
on my phone before deciding what to wear. I then head to the kitchen to scramble
and make something quick to eat and grab some coffee. At this time, I will usually find my other three roommates rushing
around trying to finish getting ready.
This is my first in person interaction of the day. It’s usually very rushed as we’re all
scrambling to get out the door on time.
Once we’ve all made it out of the house, it’s on our 20-minute walk to
class when we actually have time to catch up and talk about our day. Once we get to campus we split ways and
I head to my first class.
After
getting situated in class, I usually take the first few minutes to check my
emails on my phone. I just skim
them over deleting any spam or advertisements and checking for anything urgent.
I wait to reply to my emails until I can use my computer. Once I’ve finished this, I put my phone
away until the end of class. For
the next hour and 15minutes my attention is focused on my lecturer, besides the
occasionally daydream or distraction.
On my way to my next class, I check my phone again
for any notifications and take time to respond to them. I arrive at my next class usually right
as it is starting and my teacher has usually already started the discussion by
the time I am taking my seat.
During this class period my attention is focused on the lecturer and the
class discussion we are having. We
do a lot of scenario work in this class and are broken up into teams. During this time, we are allowed to
research on our smartphones if we need more information to answer the question
assigned to our group. During this
group work, my attention is focused on gaining useful information from the book
or article, my notes, and my phone as well as discussing with my group members
about our potential solution. Each
group shares their response, and we ask questions for clarification. My next class is in the same room, so I
usually take the 15minutes break to go get some coffee from the café
downstairs. I check my phone again
during this time and reply to anything I missed during class. I have a quick interaction with the
person working at the coffee shop as I place my order and then head back
upstairs for class.
In my next class, I use my laptop to pull up the
PowerPoint notes for that day and any excel practice problems we will be doing
from D2L. While on D2L, I look for
any new information that may have been posted. At this time, I usually open another tab to respond to my
emails and also another tab to check my online banking. In the beginning of the class, we go
through the powerpoint slides where I still attempt to mult-task by following
along but also checking my emails and facebook. Once we begin working on the practice problems, I work with
the people around me to solve the problem or ask questions if I’m
confused. Once class is over I
usually head to the library to finish up any homework. I’ll put music on while I’m doing my
homework.
On my walk home, I’ll usually make a call to
someone in my family to catch up.
After getting home, I’ll have to time to talk with roommates while
making dinner. I’ll look at the
news app on my phone for any interesting articles for the day. I usually finish up my homework in the
family room, where some of my other roommates will be doing the same. I waste at least 30mintues on facebook
before starting any homework. This
is also when I talk with friends about anything exciting that happened during
the day, or about anything we currently learning. Since we don’t have cable at our house, the only shows I
watch are on Hulu. As I’m going to
bed, I usually put on an episode of the Daily Show and watch it until I fall
asleep.
I lot of my attention is focused on personal
interaction, either with my friends, classmates, or lectures. A portion of my attention is also
focused on my cell phone, where I get calls, texts and notifications from
facebook or email. I also gain information
through conversations I have either in person or digitally, the applications on
my phone like weather or the news, my email, and certain websites of the
Internet like D2L, ATLS2000class website, the USBank website ect.
No comments:
Post a Comment