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Fun & Thought Provoking Animations 🧠 Life Hacks | Self-Improvement | Relatable | Motivation Master Your Executive Functions Skills for the Age of Virtual Learning Executive functions skills can be critical in today’s virtual learning environment. As our world grows in advancement, the distractions grow at an equal, sometimes, greater pace. With or without a specific executive functions disorder, training executive functions skills is more important now than ever. Executive functions skills in the brain are like command operations in a computer. Every individual has a limited capacity for executive function skills before they get exhausted. In a virtual learning world, there is an ever increasing number of tabs to keep track. Training executive functions skills will ensure that the brain is running at optimal performance! How Do Executive Functions Skills Work in a Virtual Learning Environment? Executive functions skills are part of everything we do, especially in today’s virtual learning world. Suppose your student is taking notes on the evolution of cells. What executive functions skills are involved? They need to turn on their computer, log onto their classroom, and open Notability on their iPads. They need to organize headers and write out bullet points. They may even need to draw and organize a table. That is six distinct executive functions steps, and we haven’t even mentioned the temptation of Tiktok. Yes, to some of us, working in a virtual learning environment just requires some “getting used to,” but to those lacking executive functions skills, it just isn’t that simple.