Interesting study on how students benefit from sleep and can apparently be "nudged" into sleeping more through incentives, but why not look at the structure of schooling which makes sleep so scarce, rather than trying to nudge students to sleep? insidehighered.com/news/2018/12/0…
I've seen similar research on nudging students to study, or even the opposite, take a break from studying, and every bit of research says these nudges have benefits to the students, but what if we set up things in such a way where students didn't need all this nudging?
Freedom and agency are perhaps the two criteria which are most important when it comes to doing good work. Obviously we can't have perfect freedom and total agency for students, but if we recognize those values, and orient around learning experiences, we wouldn't have to nudge.
If students aren't working full-time and going to school, if they're not consumed by anxiety over debt, if they can primarily be students (which extends beyond just classes), a lot of these problems we have to engineer these solutions to aren't such big problems.
The un-nudged students averaged 5 hours of sleep. That's chronic deprivation for most. I could not work under those circumstances if I faced them longterm, and yet they're entirely ordinary for students. Nudging isn't going to solve that.
