How To Set A Distraction-Free Online Learning Atmosphere?
Whether you’re learning for your next exam, doing homework, or reading recommended books from your tutors, learning online can be daunting even for the most motivated students. Sometimes it’s just the normal distraction from social media. Other times, you could be so tired to even want to look at a book. And sometimes, you feel like opening your favorite movie and watching instead of studying. There are many distractions when studying online. In this article, we guide you through the little things you need to do to keep yourself motivated when learning online and how to prevent online distraction from getting to you as a student.
A quiet or separate room for online learning
People who work from home usually need quiet environments to keep them concentrated, and as a student, you need such environments even more. A quiet environment gives you the peace of mind you need to concentrate and makes studying less boring. There’s no one size fits all when it comes to picking a regular study location at home, but we recommend choosing a section of your room, a corner of the house, or wherever around the home you think will be quiet enough to avoid noise and disturbance from siblings.
Leverage distraction canceling software
When learning online, you may use your tablet, laptop/desktop, or even a smartphone. However, as students, we have a presence on many social media sites, as well as school online cat groups. These platforms can become major distractions when we’re studying online - messages could popup anytime, there are notifications coming in from your friends, and more. In order not to fall for these when studying, it’s recommended to use online blocking tools that allow you to block certain websites or notifications from popping up at certain times. Browsers like Google Chrome comes with many extensions that allow you to do this, or you could use stand-alone software for this purpose.
Using noise-canceling headphones or software
Since we’re learning from home, there are many occasions where we need to use our laptops to listen to our teachers’ live classes, watch educational videos uploaded to our schools’ websites or just download and learn stuff from YouTube. Background noise, especially when studying with your teacher through a live video is not just distraction to your concentration but also disturbs your colleagues. In times like these, noise-canceling headphones could help you filter the environmental noise for quality learning. There are also noise-canceling software programs you can install on your computer to filter out the noise in case you don’t have noise-canceling headphones.
Conclusion
Studying from home and being alone as a student without the school environment can be boring and most times, destructive to your learning flow. However, using the right environment, technology, and keeping your focus are great ways to keep your learning environment destructive-free.