Setting up your homeschooling room – lighting is extremely important

You may not have realized it, but classroom lighting is a crucial part of learning. It was discovered through research that fluorescent lights, when they flicker, can cause serious challenges to students trying to learn. Often times fluorescent lights are uneven as they wear out over time, this flickering is distracting and impairs your eyesight and therefore slows down the learning process. It can cause nausea, drowsiness, and even strain the immune system.

Obviously that’s not good for schools, but what if you’re homeschooling? Have you considered the lighting, shadows, and light level in your home? At the 2013 “Strategies in Light” symposium and conference a workshop on interior lighting was held and one of the questions that were considered was the challenges we have in our schools, not just the costs associated with changing lighting, or the energy requirements of various kinds. but the effect all of this had on the workplace and in the classrooms.

Look, here’s the deal, if education professionals are so concerned about this, and if businesses and corporations find they are losing productivity in low lighting, then maybe you as a homeschooling parent, too you should take note immediately. You may think that you are saving money with those special bulbs or with LED lighting, but if it is not done correctly, it will cause eyestrain and drowsiness, and well, your child will not learn optimally and perhaps lose concentration. comprehension and / or retention in more than 50%.

The first thing you should realize is that natural lighting is the best of all. If you are homeschooling, try to use a room with the most natural lighting during the day. When the sun is setting or on a cloudy or cloudy day, use UV lights, not fluorescent or LED. No, LED lights aren’t that bad, but they will get enough LED lighting from your computers, laptops, tablets, and perhaps future flat-screen TVs. Ultraviolet light bulbs are the closest to natural lighting.

Your child should be sitting near the light and not across the room in a shady area, as this makes the eyes tired and your child may have trouble concentrating. It is also worth asking your child if he likes lighting. Does it make you nervous? Does it bother you? If so, that’s a good reason to lower the intensity a bit or adjust the proximity of the light source. All of this is important, and nuisance lighting or poor lighting will make a difference in the quality of homeschooling progress. So, consider all of this and think about it.