#studygrampilipinas

Konti na lang, matatapos na rin sa #ePNU #LMS #backlog. 💪 One #assignment at a time. One #deadline at a time din 😉

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❝Influential though they are, first impressions can also be unreliable, which is why the closer look, the analytical inspection, is necessary.❞

— Michael Toolan, Language in Literature (2013)

Do you talk with yourself too when solving math problems or when making complex decisions? If you would ask me, yes, I do. 🙋‍♀️

I tend to #thinkaloud in situations where I want to strictly focus like:

1) when planning out details of a project

2) when completing written assignments like the one below (drawing a tree diagram to represent structures of sentences, which, I honestly feel, is like dealing with a complicated math equation)

3) when trying to find quick workarounds for tech issues I encounter, and

4) when faced with daily dilemmas

Basically, it is like instructing myself what to do, so I can come up with a plan, strategy, or technique to solve problems. 🤯🤓🧐💡

Improve your #studyhabits by #studyingsmart! 🤓📑

Instead of reading texts entirely, why not have them read out loud to you? All you have to do is just listen. 👂

Spend your time and energy instead on taking notes and formulating content-related questions that will spare you from #cognitiveoverload. ⌚⚡

1See photos below to know more about this #studytip and how you can try it with my favorite #TexttoSpeech #TTS tools. 👉

1. #Microsoft #ImmersiveReader

Available on #OneNote, #Word, and #MicrosoftLens

2. #ImmersiveReader via #OneNote

1. Open a notebook containing text. 2. Click on the View tab. 3. Click on the Immersive Reader. 4. Click on the Play button. 5. Adjust the settings and reading preferences.

3. #ImmersiveReader via #Word

41. Open a document containing text. 2. Click on the View ribbon tab. 3. Click on the Immersive Reader. 4. Click on the Read Aloud button. 5. Adjust the settings and reading preferences.

4. #TextToSpeech via #GoogleLens

1. Open Google Lens. 2. Tap on the Text tab. 3. Wait for the text sensors, then snap a photo. 4. Tap on Listen.

5. #TextToSpeech via #Adobe #AcrobatReaderDC

1. Open a PDF. 2. Click on the View tab. 3. Hover to Read Out Loud, then select Activate Read Out Loud. 4. Choose whether you want to Read This Page Only or Read To End of Document.

To help myself #studysmart, I always get documents read to me out loud. That way, all I need to focus on is listening to audio (just like listening to a podcast) instead of forcing my eyes to read texts entirely. I can also steer away from information overload as I get to absorb only details that I need. It's a guaranteed time-saver, too, as I can segue to taking notes while listening to the audio and formulating questions in my head.

Get to know more about this #studytip by watching this short clip where I made use of #GoogleLens, which is only one of my favorite #TextToSpeech #TTS tools.

1. Open Google Lens. (If you don't have it yet, simply download it from Google Play Store).

2. Tap on the Text tab.

3. Wait for the text sensors, then snap a photo.

4. Tap on Listen.

1. Pumunta sa official Facebook page ng DepEd EdTech Unit https://www.facebook.com/depededtech

2. Hanapin ang Search button (magnifying glass icon)

3. Sa text field, i-type ang subject o topic na nais hanapin, then hit the Enter key

4. Choose from the list of search results na ige-generate ni Facebook

5. Enjoy!

Posting these snippets for I know some people who need to read these messages and this book, particularly, kasi nga "the existence of the oppressed is necessary to their [oppressors'] existence". Periodt.

For me, truly, the unloved are not the oppressed but the oppressors. Sila talaga yung mga kulang sa aruga eh.

And they dehumanize themselves too in the process.

They are the 'entitled' ones, too.

Our oppressors only live for us—those whom they oppress.

Smells like COVID, eh?

It's a cycle, you see.

For this reading, I would like to reflect on my favorite part of the book which made me realize a lot of things.

I am linking this to the impostor syndrome, which, I think, I have. I am self-diagnosed, though. Not sure if this deserves a proper diagnosis, but I only feel that the signs match with what I have been experiencing throughout my life. This has sprung from the inferiority I had back when I was not yet open to the public about my stutter—a speech impediment that disallows me from being fluent in my speech, causing me to have involuntary blocks and repetitions of either words or syllables. This speech impediment, later on, gave me speaking anxiety, where there are times I could blurt out words properly and have no stutter but feel intensely nervous instead.

In my teenage years, I had known myself to be someone who totally lacked confidence most especially when facing people in public to the mere point that saying my name, introducing myself during JS prom had stressed the hell out of me and put me in a state of complete humiliation.

Later on in my life, also connecting it to my stutter and speaking anxiety, people I would tag as “my oppressors” would think I am lying, am not sure about my answers or whatever I'm saying, am a fraud, am not qualified to do what I have been asked to do, or, simply, have poor memory, and would tend to distort my reality by framing it to whichever way they want to—which, has a clearer term now, gaslighting.

This, consequently, led me to struggle with saying no to people and choose my friends carefully, thinking they’d only be a burden to my life if I’d always deal with helping them. It’s a long story to tell but I think it deserves proper sharing when given the chance to.

I wish that people knew more about these things that I read from the book, so they can spare themselves from being "the oppressed" or at least somehow help in alleviating the pain and suffering brought about by oppressors to others.

The concept of leadership, no matter how vague and indescribable it may seem to others, has been clearer to me now, having participated in last week's virtual exchange of ideas with my classmates and our professor, Dr. Abenes.

Our productive learning session has allowed me to review my own practices as a leader that which is critical for my personal leadership development. It has helped me revisit the way I preach about leadership to other people through my actions—to the school and to the community at large, particularly to my fellow Happy Members in JCI Baras, to my co-members in DepEd Rizal Leadership Core Team, and to my advisees, our school’s Supreme Student Government (SSG) Officers.

With the learnings I gained from the exchange, I was able to examine my current level of skills—what I am good at and the areas of my life I need to work on more as far as leadership and management are concerned, the way I get along with others as well as my behavioral patterns, and how I constantly seek to inspire others and ignite positive change.