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How Standing Desks Can Help Students Focus in the Classroom

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Re: How Standing Desks Can Help Students Focus in the Classroom

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Post by joezydeco »

grimman wrote: post #13
jseliger wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Holy shit. That's amazing. I use a Geekdesk ( http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/the-geekdesk-writin... ) and it cost twice as much. Is it twice as good? Maybe. But even something that's not as good but half the price will be within range of MANY more people. One question: do the Ikea versions remember their heights? That to me is a killer feature, because trying to figure out the "right" spot every time a desk…

I'm having a tough time tracking down anybody saying it does, in fact, have memory functionality. That's certainly a feature you'd want to advertise, so it seems reasonable to assume that it doesn't have that particular feature.

Would a piece of masking tape on the leg suffice as a memory feature?

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grimman wrote: post #13
jseliger wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Holy shit. That's amazing. I use a Geekdesk ( http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/the-geekdesk-writin... ) and it cost twice as much. Is it twice as good? Maybe. But even something that's not as good but half the price will be within range of MANY more people. One question: do the Ikea versions remember their heights? That to me is a killer feature, because trying to figure out the "right" spot every time a desk…

I'm having a tough time tracking down anybody saying it does, in fact, have memory functionality. That's certainly a feature you'd want to advertise, so it seems reasonable to assume that it doesn't have that particular feature.

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Re: How Standing Desks Can Help Students Focus in the Classroom

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Post by jesserwilliams »

I use a standing desk for work, the majority of the time I sit on my chair. But around 2:30pm, the ability to stand up for the rest of the day is a life saver. I know if I had a standing desk thorough high school, my 5th & 6th block classes would have been much easier to stay awake through.

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Post by chmullig »

epoxyhockey wrote: post #11
JDiculous wrote: post #8

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They're ~$500 and ~$600... Anyone know where I can get a standing desk (don't care if it's adjustable) that isn't insanely expensive?

$500-$600 is actually cheap! I haven't been able to find a motorized sit stand desk for less than $1200.

++ These are really cheap compared to alternatives on the market.

Re: How Standing Desks Can Help Students Focus in the Classroom

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Post by joshkpeterson »

joezydeco wrote: post #21
grimman wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm having a tough time tracking down anybody saying it does, in fact, have memory functionality. That's certainly a feature you'd want to advertise, so it seems reasonable to assume that it doesn't have that particular feature.

Would a piece of masking tape on the leg suffice as a memory feature?

Yeah or hang two pieces of string off the side of the desk. DIY it!

Re: How Standing Desks Can Help Students Focus in the Classroom

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Post by kevinmchugh »

JDiculous wrote: post #8
pbreit wrote: post #5

Ikea has recently begun offering a pair of electrically adjusting sit/stand desks: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S19022530/ http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S49022270/

They're ~$500 and ~$600... Anyone know where I can get a standing desk (don't care if it's adjustable) that isn't insanely expensive?

A couple years ago when standing desks were first starting to take off the Ikea Jerker was the go-to. It's not adjustable, and ran ~$100 at the time. Craigslist/Ikea should turn one up for $100-~150 now. I've been using one for nearly 3 years (not always 8 hours/day) and it suits me very well. Get a good mat to stand on and a nice monitor mount and you're set.

(that said, $500 for an adustable one is very very reasonable. that price was unimaginable 2 years ago.)

Re: How Standing Desks Can Help Students Focus in the Classroom

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Post by pbreit »

possibilistic wrote: post #18
epoxyhockey wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$500-$600 is actually cheap! I haven't been able to find a motorized sit stand desk for less than $1200.

I don't know why the GP poster is being downvoted. For most of the world's population, $500 is not cheap. I find it difficult to categorize the desk, a tool for productivity, as a luxury. I know that's just personal bias speaking, though. The market supplies alternatives of varying degrees of quality, functionality, and design for ordinary desks. I wish there was equal demand for standing desks. Nothing ever seems to…

For $100k/year workers (the main HN audience), it's cheap. Especially considering it, along with a chair and a computer, is by far the most important tools for said audience.

Re: How Standing Desks Can Help Students Focus in the Classroom

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Post by tomerico »

pbreit wrote: post #5

Ikea has recently begun offering a pair of electrically adjusting sit/stand desks: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S19022530/ http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S49022270/

I'm using a non-motorized adjustable standing desk at work, and love it for the quick adjustablility.

All motorized standing desk seems to be frustratingly slow, and I imagine this is by design to offer better safety.

Does anyone know of a good non motorized standing desk at a similar or lower price?

Re: How Standing Desks Can Help Students Focus in the Classroom

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Post by Broken_Hippo »

MrZongle2 wrote: post #4

Speaking as a parent: do you know how you help students focus in the classroom? Stop preventing them from socializing during lunch. Allow them to get outside for more than 15 minutes so they can work off some of that excess energy, both physical and mental. Stop helicoptering around them on the playground and let them be kids. Everything else (aside from diagnosed learning disabilities) is just treating the damn symp…

I agree completely: It isn't standing desks that are needed, it is more actual movement and breaks from sitting. I'll admit I would have used it some as a student, but I'd have been just as happy with a space on the floor I could move about on. Recess and down time is important, not just movement, which the article tends to overlook. Finland does this already - less lecture and breaks more often and have had fantastic results.

In fact, recess and free time are something I noticed quickly after moving from the US to Norway. The nearby elementary almost always has children outside playing. Actually playing. In wet sand, in puddles, climbing, running, soccer... so many things kids do that they would forbidden to do in the states.

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