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daily routine and how are they helping themselves. The session was further lead by a solution oriented
In other words, is their behaviour helping them to discussion, wherein students were oriented about
get what they really want from life? This gave a smart and helpful tips for digital detox and using
chance to ask “Do you want to change what is going technology wisely. The students were told about
on?” A list of all the consequences was made due how by taking ONE STEP AT A TIME, they can
to excessive mobile phone usage like distraction better manage their mobile phone use to overcome
while writing the homework, incompletion of loneliness. All the students agreed that there are no
homework and tuition work, losing sleep due to hard-and-fast rules for telling us when someone is
night time internet use, feeling of being withdrawn spending too much time online. As a general rule, if
and many more. Students were shown some time spent online interferes with the quality of your
videos on physical and emotional manifestations life-socially, medically, and/or emotionally- then
of mobile/ internet addiction. The session thus, they may want to consider getting help. Students
gave room to the students to analyze that whether were filled with great energy and enthusiasm as
they are accepting the negative impact of mobile the session included many joyful activities for
phone usage. Through the help of questionnaire them. Here, more student participation in decision
students could additionally identify that do they making at all levels and more student- centered
have compulsive urge/ behaviour of checking their teaching occurred.
social media/ online games.

Motivational Session on Smart Study Skills

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Date: August 28 and 29 , 2019
‘Goals are dreams with deadlines’
Goals are made achievable by doing correct
planning after extensive research. We, at Delhi
Public School, Greater Faridabad always strive to
provide a plethora of opportunities to our students
to achieve great heights. To feel better equipped to
make informed choices about study skills, students
of Class XI A1 attended a two days ‘Motivational
Session on Smart Study Skills’ on August 28 and
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29 , 2019. The resource person for the session
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was Ms. Isha Pahuja, School Counsellor who with
an extensive insight introspected that delivering a
session on study all the way is too boring, therefore,
some motivational activities for students were
planned and implemented to make learning easy
and interesting.

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