1st Post :)

     This is my first time blogging and my first post so here we go. I am very excited to be in Educational Psychology, throughout this course I hope to learn many different things. A couple things I am looking forward to in this course is leaning how deal with children with disorders such as ADD and ADHD, I also hope to learn more in speech because I am eventually hoping to go into to speech pathology.

     In class today we watched a video on Allison Cameron. We were left with the question:

1. As a wise consumer of information about educational psychology, please discuss and evaluate this video. How might you use this information wisely?

     I think that Allison's idea of having 20 minutes of vigorous activity before class is a great idea. I am a big supporter of physical activity and I believe that you are a much happier person if you exercise. In the video she proves that by doing 20 minutes of vigorous activity before class students have more potential to pay attention for a longer period of time. She proves her theory by taking her students grades, reading level, comprehension, etc. at the beginning of the year, before she started her experiment and then re testing at the end of the year. Her students grade levels had increased by almost a whole grade and there reading and comprehension levels had enormously increased. I think many other teachers should try this method with students with disorders such as ADD and ADHD because exercising makes it much easier for students to pay attention for a much longer period of time.It then makes it much easier to connect with the student and help them succeed in their education. Physical activity benefits many things other than education, it also reduces stress, and therefore Allison's experiment benefits a student as a whole.