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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...

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...

Health Education Professional Organizations and their Websites

This research paper offers an overview of the websites for the following health education professional organizations: the Society ...

UK Education Policy Prior to and Following the Second World War

late 1830s, more than two-thirds of the working class population was literate (West, 2002). In an attempt to address the educatio...

Jazz Curriculum for Korea

to the advent of jazz, improvisation was an integral part of European music, as the improvisational skills of such composers as Ba...

Theory and Practice Relationship

The relationship between theory and practice in education is a long-standing controversy. This is one of the issues discussed in t...

Motivating Teachers

their own supplies before and during each school year (Schmidt, 2005). Teaching has always been a low-status, low-pay job requiri...

Computers in the Twenty-First Century

it is the advent of the Internet that really changed things and rendered the computer a necessity. What might the typical computer...

Overview of Interactive Data Visualization

in decision making (Sullivan, 2002). Data visualization can be used to "analyze information in a data warehouse or it can be used...

Personal Development and Developmental Theories

In twenty pages personal development is considered within the context of such developmental theories as John Dewey's Development M...

NonProfessionals, Health Education, and Computers

In five pages the applications of computers in community and academic settings are evaluated as they relate to the health educatio...

Using Computers in Pre K and General Education Levels First Chapter Research Proposal

perspective on the value of computer-based learning and the knowledge that can be conveyed across disciplines (Rehmel, 1998). Com...

Critical Response to Educational Technology

needs of a constantly changing and always challenging new student population and maintaining a method for flexibility inherent in ...

Cross Curriculum Pros and Cons of Computer Usage

In fifteen pages this paper discusses elementary education and the uses of computers in a consideration of pros and cons. Twenty ...

Firefighting Assistance from Computers

to accurately predict the conditions in which the fire would burn out (Walton, 1985). This revolutionary computer "expert syste...

Education and Computers

In five pages this paper discusses the past and future roles of computers particularly pertaining to Special Education. Four sourc...

Elementary Education and Computers

In five pages elementary education is considered within the context of computers in the classrooms with test score improvements am...

Educational Equity And Diversity: Technology And The Digital Divide

for this special group with the intervention of technological advancement in the school setting. Current generations of exception...

Sociological Theories' Impact On Education

values (Hoenisch, 2005). Durkheim believed that "society can survive only if there exists among its members a sufficient degree of...

Bilingual Education and Computer Technology

In eight pages this paper discusses bilingual education programs and the problems and challenges of computer technology implementa...

Music Instruction and the Use of Technology

the extent of that role and exactly what it should be is still a matter for conjecture. For example, Garvin (1994) believes that ...

College Classroom Management

the consequences for unacceptable behavior (Butts and Shrawder, 2003). The instructor needs to develop a set of clear rules for c...

Students with Learning Disabilities and Increasing Self Esteem Through Computers

In twelve pages and an abstract of one page this paper discusses the many Special Education classroom benefits represented by comp...

Interdisciplinary Perspective on Philosophy

In five pages this research essay examines how the disciplines of computer science, scientific method, psychology, sociology, art,...

Internet and the Impacts on Post-Secondary Education

in higher education (Lee 137). In Britain, the Internet age appears to be prevalent in urban settings, but there is also a clea...

Theory Practice Educational Leadership

the mindsets of subordinates, building trust, and encouraging followers to be leaders (Lulee, 2011). In todays educational system,...

Technological Change: Anthropological, Sociological, and Psychological Perspectives

example, is bypassed in favor of a machine to human interface. While the teacher is still involved in the classroom, that involve...

E.T. Higgins' Theory of Self Discrepancy

In twenty four pages this paper applies the self discrepancy theory of E.T. Higgins to senior citizens and also compares it to the...

Meaningful Learning Experiences

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

Virtual Reality Value, Functionality, and Aesthetics

for expression and communication. Virtual reality is a means to create, experience, and share a computer-generated world as realis...