Learning Challenges: Sleep Pt. 2

This week, I decided to learn more about sleep. In their article, "Why Sleeping May Be More Important Than Studying," Mindshift delves into a study of students, and the effect that a lack of sleep can have on their abilities to perform in the classroom.

The interesting thing about this article is that while the study does show sleep to be more important than we might have thought, sacrificing sleep for studying often leads to lower performance in the classroom. The article notes that when children took tests, they not only could not remember the material as well, their short term memory would also fail. An interesting follow-up to this article would be over college students since the material is more difficult, but routine sleep deprived people might develop immunities to the short term difficulties the students in this study face.

In order to maximize the utility of this article, I am still planning on maintaining a regular sleep schedule, going to bed at around the same time, and waking up at around the same time as well.

Lack of sleep can decrease academic performance, Source: PublicDomainPictures

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