Meinmmo author Johanna studies something with the media, but cannot always get up to learn. However, a category at Twitch helped her to be able to prepare for her exam better.
Studying is difficult. Not always because of the learning material, but often because of the lack of discipline. It can be difficult if you don’t have the pressure of an exam on the neck.
And even that doesn’t always have the desired effect.
Just like me, as an exam for which I just didn’t feel like learning. I much preferred to hang around on Twitch and looked at my favorite streamer, who distracted me from my student duties.
But it is precisely this platform that should be the reason why I sat down on my learning material at all and why I also went out of the exam with a good note.
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A Twitch category becomes a lifesaver
What helped me? When one day I was on Twitch and none of the current streams really agreed, I browed through the categories of the platforms. Under “Creative Ideas” there is the “Co-working & study” category.
Here people stream themselves how they work or learn (on the computer). I clicked the first stream in which a student was sitting at her desk and wrote in her documents.
I once heard from my lecturer that learning should help you meet other students to learn together. This increases the productivity of each individual through the “social relief.” This means that things are easier for us to do them in a group in which others do the same task.
The problem: Due to my distance learning, I knew my fellow students, but they lived far too far away that a meeting in a library would have been possible. However, this Twitch category seemed the perfect replacement.
It is often enough for the effect of “social relief” if we only see another person on a screen who learns. On YouTube, for example, there are videos in which students filmed themselves while learning and then uploaded it.
Somehow I didn’t get enough. My brain did not feel “back”, so I couldn’t really concentrate on my learning material. I hadn’t followed the concept any further. However, that changed with Twitch.
Co-study on Twitch: The live streams pass in real time. So I knew that the student also learned on my screen, which is why I was also stimulated for productivity.
I looked for a stream where a young woman made her desk and filming herself. She worked with the Pomodoro technology and I adapted her with active learning and breaks.
The Pomodoro technique should help to concentrate over a long time. A certain time is actively learned/focused, for example 25 minutes and then a short break, for example 5 minutes. Times can be individually adjusted, depending on how long you can concentrate in one piece.
And indeed: it worked. Suddenly it was much easier for me to concentrate and really create the things I had planned for the day. I pulled this learning technique through every day for a week and became safer with my fabric every day.
The result: I was confident in my exam and this time my productivity was not increased by a Twitch streamer, but in real life by the other students around me. I was finally able to look forward to a 2 in the exam and all because of Twitch!
A Twitch streamer who also streams under the Co-working & studying category and who I had also looked in is the author Anabelle Stehl. She edits her current book live on Twitch and lets her viewer participate: Streamer works quietly on her own book on Twitch and thus inspires 4,000 followers on productivity