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Science in the Media

a explain how and why this is bad for the environment, including the problem of molecules which take many decades to break down, a...

Scientific Thought

phrase "its not rocket science" is used to suggest that a certain topic is not that difficult, implying that science is quite diff...

Revolutions in Science and Technology

While it is true that Fleming noted the effect of this substance on bacterial growth, the discovery entirely by chance, as Fleming...

A Study Using the Scientific Method

In order to test this hypothesis, the research team established four 50x50 cm quadrants, with 50 cm between them. Each of these qu...

All About Collaboratories

resolution skills" (Gardner, 2005). Here, conflict is not seen as a problem or difficult but an opportunity to bring out various p...

Scientific Method Philosophy

in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far l...

Cells and Journal Articles' Examination

The article presents the reader with some very good presentations in that it is specifically addressing one particular endeavor in...

Meaningful Learning Experiences

brain and how learning takes place supports moving away from a "mechanistic/Newtonian paradigm" that relies primarily on teacher-d...

Overview of Galileo

want to discuss how Galileo studied religion with great interest and considerable depth. His ongoing quest was not only to determ...

Scientific Revolutions and the Perspectives of Thomas S. Kuhn

of practitioners" (Davidson, 1997, p. 13). The existing paradigms of the science community, according to Kuhn, are established vi...

Community College Learning and Teaching

funds, federal funds and miscellaneous funds (Association of Community Colleges). The community college system serves a different...

Programs of University and Online Distance Learning

Japan were incorporating their own variations into their respective educational curriculums (Matthews, 1999). By the early twenti...

Learning Theories of Maria Montessori

their environment, stating that first the senses, then the education of the mind(Wesissglass 1999, see also Schute 2002). ...

Assessing Distance Learning Online Class Groups

place. In a face to face scenario there may be first impressions which are inaccurate and also pre-existing prejudices may influen...

University Honor Codes

to be self-regulating, although as Georgia College (2002) notes, over the years the focus has changed. In the majority of colleges...

Gulliver Adaptations

the protagonists "descent into madness and misanthropy" (Stallcup 87). As Stallcup observes, this is "hardly a likely candidate fo...

The Use of Computers in Online Education

may decide to spend some years traveling in their twenties and work late into their seventies or eighties. Conversely, they may de...

Watergate: Lessons Learned

involved many different elements that essentially worked towards eliminating or destroying democracy in America (Lichtman, 2005). ...

The Elementary School Classroom

in one corner of the playground there was a collapsible table covered with pots of paste, construction paper, crayons, chalk, scis...

Ritalin, Pro & Con

vision problems or learning disabilities or "whether a childs behavior is simply immature or exuberant" ("Attention" 77). Accurate...

The Role of a Primary School Teacher

intends" (Kyriacou, 1998). The curriculum for the main part of determined by the government, with targets such the literacy and a ...

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...

Lifelong Learning and Professional Development

hard, all you need to do is to set stretching goals." But recent studies in motivation in the workplace suggest that simply setti...

Gibbs' Reflective Model and a Reflective Learning Document

undue fear created but there is also an appreciation of the true nature of the condition and the care the patient needs to take of...

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...

Early Childhood Education Issues

real-world application; otherwise theyre solving problems for the sake of solving problems; this can lead to boredom, irritation a...

6 Cases and Technology

that companies that imitate the original and enter the market later (de Haviland had a passenger jet before Boeing, but who today ...

6 Articles on Technology

second problem that arises is when one design begins to dominate the market. For instance, what aircraft designer today wants to ...

Learning and the Significance of Prior Experiences and Knowledge

"the ideas of a new schema are connected not only to each other but to previously established schemata as well" (Daniel, 1999). Th...

Overview of Learning

From this beginning, other theories involved that explain social behavior in terms of learning theory. According to social-learnin...