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  • Learning Styles

    Learning Styles

    THESIS: Learning Styles are different approaches or ways of learning. Although there are many types of learning styles, I am an Auditory and Visual learner, which means I must hear things and see them for me to be able to comprehend a topic sufficently. A. Different learning styles 1. Visual- relate most effectively to written information, notes and pictures. 2. Auditory- relate most effectively to the spoken word. 3. Kinaesthetic- learn effectively through touch, movement

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    Essay Length: 509 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Monika
  • What Is Inborn and What Is Learned?

    What Is Inborn and What Is Learned?

    What is inborn and what is learned? The discussion as to whether nature or nurture were the driving force shaping our cognitive abilities, was for a long time considered interminable. In the 18th century, Locke and the English empiricists claimed that individuals were born with a tabula rasa and only experience could establish mind, consciousness and the self. On the continent, Leibniz envisaged the self as a monad carrying with it some knowledge of a

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    Essay Length: 491 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Diversity

    Diversity

    Abraham Lincoln once said, “The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.” For an organization to work well it has to have a diversity of people, good communication with all the employees, and to be organized in a way that is effective and efficient to function properly. I currently work at the Turlock Junior High School (TJHS). It is an

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    Essay Length: 457 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: July
  • An Approach to the Development of a Quality Metric for Electronic Learning

    An Approach to the Development of a Quality Metric for Electronic Learning

    Education is life long learning endeavor. It is a process of constantly elicitating, acquiring, organizing and integrating specialized knowledge into a single whole that can be used to help improve one's thinking skills. It is an exciting, relevant and vibrant process. The taxonomy of educational objectives can be found in Bloom (1956). He described the order of sequencing the content of the subject and assessing the learning progress based on the learner behavior. Educating, nevertheless

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    Essay Length: 2,657 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Mike
  • My Family History (culture Diversity Course)

    My Family History (culture Diversity Course)

    I was born on the Indian Reservation in North Carolina in 1967 to the Cherokee Tribe of Native American Indians. My parents were both full-blooded Cherokee and I was being raised to speak both my native tongue of Cherokee and English. Tsalagi (Tsa-la-gi) is an Iroquoian language and is spoken by 22,000 Cherokee people. The Tsalagi language in North America is at a great risk of becoming extinct. There are some government policies that were

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    Essay Length: 948 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Managing Diversity

    Managing Diversity

    200 The Authors Rama Prasad Kanungo, Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, UK Abstract Purpose – In recent years multi-cultural practices and values have become significantly conspicuous in corporate business. Cultures and managerial values become co-terminous when organisations cross boundaries. The synergy between corporate culture and managerial values institutes cross-cultural practices garnering effective strategic options, helping to perform a set task successfully. This has a far-fetching effect on what people in different cultures perceive and

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    Essay Length: 254 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Yan
  • Learning to Drive a Stick

    Learning to Drive a Stick

    Learning to Drive a Stick Learning to drive a car with a manual transmission is much more difficult than learning to drive a vehicle with an automatic transmission. There are several steps to learning how to drive. You will need to pay close attention to the steps below to be able to become a safe and defensive driver. . The first step to learning to drive is to identify all the important parts. In

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    Essay Length: 588 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Mike
  • Social Learning Theory

    Social Learning Theory

    Social learning theory In criminology, Ronald Akers and Robert Burgess (1966) developed Social Learning Theory to explain deviancy by combining variables which encouraged delinquency (e.g. the social pressure from delinquent peers) with variables that discouraged delinquency (e.g. the parental response to discovering delinquency in their children). [edit] Discussion Social Learning Theory was derived from the work of Gabriel Tarde (1912: 322) which proposed that social learning occurred through three stages of imitation: • close contact,

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    Essay Length: 735 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Distance Learning II

    Distance Learning II

    In a distance-learning environment, giving feedback face-to-face can be different because of interpretation. Face-to-face feedback allows a classmate the opportunity to express themselves through emotions such as sarcasm, humor, or sincerity. Using written communication can extract some of the emphasis used in social interaction. Verbal communication allows the personality to reflect with words while using a written communication can make it difficult to decipher between words. In a written format, a classmate could use the

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    Essay Length: 417 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Laptops in the Classroom

    Laptops in the Classroom

    Laptops in the Classroom Laptops increase student motivation and desire to become involved with lessons initiated in the classroom. Performance and motivation levels were increased due to laptops being used by students for learning purposes. Laptops increase the level of interactivity, engagement and interest students have towards course content. Their interaction with school work, peers and the teacher will increase as a result of having the laptop to use daily. The involvement with multimedia presentations

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    Essay Length: 2,386 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Technology Revolutionizes Cheating in the Classroom

    Technology Revolutionizes Cheating in the Classroom

    TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTIONIZES CHEATING IN THE CLASSROOM Cheating in the classroom is an unfortunate fixture in the history of our educational system. “The evidence indicates that many students cheat regularly and few students never cheat” (Kerkvliet and Sigmund, 1999, p. 331). Although the methods may have changed over the years, the basic concept remains constant. “The essence of cheating is fraud and deception” (Athanasou and Olasehinde, 2002). The majority of students indicate a belief that cheating

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    Essay Length: 348 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Bred
  • Hispanic American Diversity

    Hispanic American Diversity

    Introduction The Hispanic or Latino Americans are a diverse group that share the same heritage, but have many other differences. The language barrier has only recently been recognized as an asset instead of a liability (Schaefer, 2006). Latinos include major groups, which consist of Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans (Schaefer, 2006). People of Hispanic background have lived in what is now the United States since the 17th century. "In 2000 the U.S. census counted

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    Essay Length: 456 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Managing Diversity

    Managing Diversity

    Introduction Thirty years ago discrimination was a part of normal business activity. Work place diversity meant hire outside of your family not outside of your race. As a result, the federal government felt impelled to create employment laws. These new laws were implemented to eliminate discrimination and provide the means for advancement. As a consequence of this implementation, these laws have created possible barriers to maximizing the potential of every employee (Chan, 2000). Recently,

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    Essay Length: 1,880 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: David
  • Personal Perspective on Teaching/learning Model

    Personal Perspective on Teaching/learning Model

    Personal Perspective on Teaching/Learning Model Paper University of Phoenix Personal Perspective Paper The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the benefits of three major components of The University of Phoenix’s Teaching/learning model. The 1st is rEsource, which is a electronic delivery system of course materials. The 2nd is Learning Teams, which divides classrooms into groups working together towards course objectives and the 3rd is Problem Based Learning which is the learning that results from

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    Essay Length: 535 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Artur
  • Ethics and Diversity

    Ethics and Diversity

    The issue of ethics in the workplace is a major issue in the world today. Televisions broadcasted headlines of the unethical behavior involving Martha Stewart and the Enron controversy for weeks, and if that was not enough, Don Imus kept the world talking when he racially disrespected a group of African American women basketball players on his nationally syndicated radio show last year. All of these situations left people with questions and discussions which all

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Diversity

    Diversity

    I am a female currently employed in the healthcare field, at a well known hospital. I generally consider my co-workers and organization to be relatively progressive and sensitive to unique individual needs. Therefore, it is easy to understand the surprise and disappointment I felt when the members of my management team (all of whom just so happen to be male) decided to take a day off to go golfing without the thought of inviting me.

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Janna
  • Diversity

    Diversity

    Introduction Companies in the 21st century are facing fierce competition, economic and global challengers. In the midst of challengers organisations should have distinctive competences to resist it. Survival depends on the maintenance of market share by having good image, cost leadership, sound technical or service superioty, committed employees and speed of market. Organisations success depends on how well the use of resource are utilised in achieving the core competences. Human assets are becoming the most

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    Essay Length: 801 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Top
  • Knowledge Learning at Google

    Knowledge Learning at Google

    History Google, Inc. began its life cycle as a research project for Larry Paige and Sergey Brin, while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University (Battelle 2007). By January of 1996, Paige and Brin started a working together on a search engine called BackRub. Like many graduate students with a shortage of money, the pair used low cost PCs that were "borrowed" from the department's loading docks (Corporate Information n.d.). The two's reputation grew exponentially

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    Essay Length: 941 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Steve
  • Chess in Schools: Moving Towards Unified Framework of Learning

    Chess in Schools: Moving Towards Unified Framework of Learning

    Chess in Schools: Moving Towards Unified Framework of Learning Authored by Malola Prasath T S Ganapathy Krishnan H Malola Priya S Seshadri KR Abstract We summarize the 'Introduction of Chess in schools' and the promising directions for improving the quality of students in such schools, beginning with understanding that the role played by culture is crucial both in prevailing education system and in promoting chess as educational activity. We focus on how Chess reflect the

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    Essay Length: 2,473 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Mike
  • Classroom Management

    Classroom Management

    Philosophy Paper My philosophy on classroom management is first learning and knowing the different rolls that a teacher plays on an everyday basis. I didn't know until this class that a teacher had so many rolls to play during the day. He or she may be the judge, parent, bad guy, social worker, counselor, reference, advisor, educator, and the equal person. I also learned that I will run into different types of students. More than

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    Essay Length: 738 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Victor
  • My Implications and Learned Lessons in Business Negotiation

    My Implications and Learned Lessons in Business Negotiation

    My Implications and Learned Lessons in Business Negotiation Being a salesperson like me, I must admit that it is a tough marketplace out there and strong negotiating skills are fundamental to achieving and more importantly sustaining career and business success, particularly within a competitive sales and marketing environment. Those of us who want to achieve better results, both at work and in our private lives, need to develop effective negotiating skills. It is worth to

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    Essay Length: 928 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Diversity in the Workplace

    Diversity in the Workplace

    diversity initiatives; (6) succession planning; (7) recruitment; (8) employee involvement in an organization’s diversity management; and (9) training for management and staff about diversity management”. The report implies that if an organization implements these initiatives or a combination of, a company should have a success in developing and implementing diversity management. Simply developing diversity management, of course, is not a key to a productive diverse workforce. Having a accountability for workforce development and a strategic

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    Essay Length: 256 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: July
  • Multicultural Education in the Classroom

    Multicultural Education in the Classroom

    The Benefits of Multicultural Education in the Classroom I have grown up with Education being my catapult through life; I love it. I love to study children and figure out how they learn and how our educational experiences shape us as adults. Five years ago, I found myself accepting a position as a Toddler teacher in a government facility. To describe it simply, I was a fish out of water. I had experience with children,

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    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: regina
  • Occupational Therapy & People with Intellectual Disability from Diverse Cultural Backgrounds

    Occupational Therapy & People with Intellectual Disability from Diverse Cultural Backgrounds

    Occupational Therapy & People with Intellectual Disability from Diverse Cultural Backgrounds Individual values are important in healthcare and it is important for providers to understand the concept of cultural competence to provide cross-cultural therapy for all clients. Francisco and Carlson (2002) pioneered a qualitative research study to determine how cultural differences and language barriers affect the quality of care within the realm of occupational therapy (OT). This study used the findings of many Occupational Therapists

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    Essay Length: 762 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: Jack
  • Knowing and Serving Diverse Families

    Knowing and Serving Diverse Families

    The United States is one of the most culturally, ethnically, racially, and linguistically diverse countries in the world, so it is essential that all service provider know a range of strategies in order to enhance their relationships with families from a variety of cultural and linguistic backgrounds. It is helpful for those seeking to work as service providers to develop a common foundation of knowledge and practical strategies to address the needs of the

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    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: Jessica

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