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1. Solving math problems:
    a. Use the board to complete troubling problems.  Your student can write larger and can erase easily.
        -> It feels more like "working it out" instead of trying to turn in a perfect paper with few erasures.

2. Vocabulary memorization/spelling words/Blue Book memorization:
    a. Try to write a few words.  Proof them.  Rewrite them.  Repeat.
    b. Write a list of words with their definitions or a clue to the definition, turn away from the board and say the ones

When college students multitask by using Facebook and studying simultaneously, they get lower grades - 20% lower - than those who don't have their Facebook profile running within their visual range.  The study, conducted by Dutch psychologist Paul A. Kirschnera and Ohio State researcher Aryn C. Karpinskib, examined the study habits of 219 U.S. university students between the ages of 19 and 54.  The grade point average of the Facebook multitaskers was 3.06, compared to 3.82 for nonusers.  "The