Students have more tasks to complete each day than time available, making effective scheduling difficult. The document provides tips from the National Sleep Foundation for maintaining good sleep hygiene, such as avoiding screens before bed. It also suggests framing tasks that emit blue light, like screen time, in a positive way to promote better sleep habits without requiring significant behavior changes, such as using f.lux software or shifting some work to later hours.

2. Students have more to do in a day than they have
time
Work Play Sleep
24 hours
Good scheduling doesn’t always solve the problem
We might stop, but our brains keep us awake
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Work Play :( Sleep

4. SLEEP HYGIENE
Examples of ways to maintain sleep hygiene from the National
Sleep Foundation:
• “Avoid…”
• “Stay away…”
• “Try to avoid…”
Getting people to stop is hard

5. FRAMING ACTIVE TASKS
Blue light related tasks:
1. Install f.lux
 Free software
 one-time change in environment
2. Get sun in the morning
 high simplicity – the sun is free
 responsive to triggers such as text messages
3. Shift off-screen work towards night
 Didn’t require people to do less work
 Less deviation from normal behavior

6. Erik Pavia
elpavia@stanford.edu
@erikpavia