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Lessons of Travel in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

not tell Polyphemus his name, rather indicating to the Cyclops that his name is "Nobody." When Polyphemus friends respond to his c...

Overview of Learning That is Problem Based

"Teachers dont seem to recognise [sic] complex nature of information retrieval and librarians get frustrated by how unrecognised [...

Philosophies on Personal Learning

1999, p. 104+) - believed children are not merely a collection of empty vessels waiting for information to fill the void, but rath...

Technology and Learning Systems

alone should not be the only measures of accountability for school libraries and library professionals. Instead, there is a need ...

Paper on Personal Learning Theory

of the development of the intellect is based not only in his conceptualization of the application of learning, but also in the dev...

Learning and the Human Brain

operate a bit differently from each other, with the two main differences being logic resides on the left and creativity is control...

Kolb and Managing Anger

theories (Smith, 2005). The following pages discuss anger and anger management incorporating Kolbs four elements of learning in ...

Reviews of Five Book Annotations

are numerous conditions and realities that Gardner (2000) examines and in one section, "The Forces that Will Remake Schools," he n...

Reflective Learning Model and Patient Depression Treatment

ten years and in raising her son has also incurred several debts which have created stress, these are an issue. Joan needs to work...

K through 5 Special Education and Learning Stations to Improve Behaviore and On Task Completions

all students. This type of classroom or programming design is especially helpful in classrooms of learners who progress at varie...

Don't Bother Me, Mom, I'm Learning by Marc Prensky

unknown 20 years ago (Exclusive interview, 2001). The world has changed dramatically, but education has not kept up with it; in fa...

Assessing Nontraditional Students in a Higher Learning Setting

In fact, that time has been here for decades yet these accommodations are more the rarity than the rule. In their report issued in...

3 Articles on Public Relations Issues Between Schools and Communities Summarized

is all too often overlooked (Ediger, 2001). When courteous responses between school workers is not relayed, the public at large w...

Don't Bother Me, Mom, I'm Learning by Marc Prensky

medical procedures, work in a lab-in short, the skills developed by the games translate directly into the "real world" (Prensky, 2...

A Career in Multimedia Programming (First Person, Interview Based Essay)

interviewing people who have also had the same major that I will learn what I might expect after graduation. II. The Interviews ...

Accommodating Cultural Differences In Esl Classroom

styles of cognitive learning by offering both individual and group work to students. For instance, some of the assignments would b...

Turing's Theory

means "from the former" and means that we learn from the experiences we have had in the past. "In much of the modern Western tradi...

Analysis of an Editorial

done in any serious or affective manner. In all honesty, everyone knows that there is a serious crisis taking place as it...

Anthropological Interviewing/Religion

of Bohemia and Moravia, which are now part of the Czech Republic (Our History). One aspect of Moravian life that Sara related ha...

Personality Profiles and Learning Styles

thinking about it (Learning styles, 2001). Traditional educational methods "tend to favor abstract perceiving and reflective proc...

Cultural Practices For Memory and Learning

an adult and include conceptual reasoning" (Piaget, 2001). During all of these stages, the child "experiences his or her environme...

Thematic Lesson Plan That is Developmentally Appropriate

2004b). They can be used for self-directed study, small group study, projects, experiments or in many other ways (NCREL, 2004b). ...

Overview of Dyslexia

the last 30 years (Singleton, 2000). Essentially, making positive diagnosis of dyslexia involves establishing that: 1. The childs ...

Self Directed Learners' Characteristics

need for self-esteem, a desire to achieve, and the satisfaction that will come from accomplishing something" (Hiemstra and Judd, 1...

Zoo Visits and Changing Attitudes of Children

with some of its most enjoyable elements of entertainment, all at the cost of the animals life. A staple of Americana, the ...

ICT and its Contemporary Life Impacts

two areas that have seen a high input form ICT. The subject area is so broad we cannot look at the entire are in only a few page...

Cooperative Discipline Model of Educator Linda Albert

Alberts model is detailed and specific, offering concrete strategies to educators for handling discipline dilemmas. Albert states ...

Learning Environment and Communication Strategies

However, this is not simply a matter if a subject that interests the student making a different; it is also in the way it is prese...

United Parcel Service Strike of 1997

still be successful when the issues are real and when they stick together. On August 4, 1997, 185,000 United Parcel Service (U...

Interdisciplinary Enhancement Through XML

concept focus" (Reksten , 2000, p.26). On the other hand, multidisciplinary learning lacks a concept focus but "relate to facts a...