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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...

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...

Review of "African American Mothers' Views of Their Infants' Language Development and Language-Learning Environment"

of expecting there to be great differences between cultures within the US as well. The authors use sources from the 1970s and 198...

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...

Inclusion Program In High School/A Research Proposal

students and can, therefore, be classified as successful. INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 Historically, special education in the US pu...

Benefits of Learning Spanish as a Second Language

being able to communicate with these classmates. Of course when we travel we come across Spanish speaking people everywhere, and ...

Past Slavery Patterns

only tolerated and accepted, but also embraced as part of daily life (Anonymous, 2001). In most early societies, slavery seems to...

German Expansion Efforts of Wal Mart

In forty pages the problematic expansion of Wal Mart into the German market is examined in an overview of background, strategies, ...

Literature Review on Post 1980s' Teacher Education Programs and Trend Causes and Effects

Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), and the Inters...

Education and Roadblocks to Communication

begin to see the dilemma teachers face when planning a lesson(Cross 89). Even with these diagnostic tools to aid them, teachers a...

Overview of the Constructivist Theory of Learning

and cognitive therapy (Applefield, Huber et al, 35). However, constructivism as a theory has been embraced for several years and ...

Organizational Learning and General Electric

In five pages this paper considers the organizational learning concepts of Peter Senge ini a discussion of GE's system of manageme...

Sylvan Learning Systems

also offered a guarantee - if students did not gain at least one grade level following the typical 36-hours of instruction, the co...

Curriculum and Reading Fluency

Other studies noted would tie early problem behavior with learning difficulties. Although a good compilation of literature was rev...

Lessons Learned from the Somalia Inquiry

regard, one of the most disillusioning findings was the problems occurring within the Canadian Airborne Regiment. There were repor...

Summary of Article Dealing with the Difficulties Encountered by Disabled Students in Solving Mathematical Word Problems

"basic concepts, listening vocabulary, problem solving and fractions" (Yan and Jitendra, 1999, p. 207). They had the most difficul...

Article Review on Management Learning

In five pages this paper critiques the article Responding to New Roles A Qualitative Study of Managers as Instructors' in terms o...

Great Britain's Housing Programs

Northern Ireland, there were far fewer houses built during a comparable period: the rate at which both local authorities and priva...

Higher Order Learning and Geographical Marketing

different activities than their counterparts in Florida. They may be more prone to engage in winter outdoor activities while child...

Communication and Learning Theories

the connection between the process of communication and the individual communicating, whether a general organism or a human being,...

Teens, Education, and Sleep

younger siblings. It has to do with their biological clock, the circadian rhythm that dictates to every living organism when sleep...

Baseball Players, Training Programs, and Balance of Energy Systems

participation in all sporting activities, and therefore this fitness level could be said to be common to all. However, the way in ...

Mathematics and Computer Technology

has clearly developed in the mathematics classroom. Young (2000) considered the implications of computer and technological advanc...

Supervisors and Type A And B Personalities

* Does not experience the Type-As typical insecurity and hostility (Friedman and Ulmer). Type B personalities tend to be far easi...

General Overview of Project Based Learning

mathematics, and writing achievement" (Stites, 1998). It has long been argued that the more involvement the student has in planni...

Human Learning and Computer Technology

heavy reading and/or composition requirements. When third grade students are able to apply the touch-type method of keyboarding, ...