In addition, using blogging sites such as Tumblr or Pinterest can provide a greater experience for students, as it takes traditional learning and allows students to communicate together and with others to learn difficult concepts. ... Students today can learn through more than books, paper and pen; students can learn and adapt to the surrounding world using a fairly new method of communication, known as social networking. ... By using social networking sites within school, students learn how to use these sites for more than just playing. Students learn how these sites can be used professionall...

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Keating believes that we should learn from previous traditions, in order to prevent making the same mistakes. Keating wants students to understand that other people making their decisions for them will not always protect them; they have to learn to make their own individual decisions. ... Keating encourages students to learn from their mistakes and take risks, which will help them, gain self-control. ... Keating is teaching his students to learn to assess their errors and foibles and from this they can understand the responsibilities, duties and need for self-control. ... But at the same time...

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(Chauhan, 1988 .p. 117) Teachers need to learn the basic concepts or theories about learning process that occurs in every child. ... For example, some students may learn better through rote learning or reinforcement while some others may learn by insight where they need to perceive all the relevant parts of a problem before insight or understanding can occur to solve the problems. ... The teachers will also learn the factors that affect learning, of how the students" memory actually affecting their studies. ... In sociology of education, the teachers will learn about the social stratification ...

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Students learn from reading Flatland that a society where groups are not viewed as equal is not a very fun kind to live in. ... For example, the teacher must always make sure his or her students know that all students are treated equally by the teacher, and that all students know they have equal opportunities and resources. Hands-on manipulatives, cooperative group learning activities, learning to use the vocabulary by discovering the meanings during discover-a-relationship exercises, overhead displays to help visualize concepts, and the use of computers are some of the ways that the Flatland ...

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Peter Hessler got the opportunity to travel to Fuling, China in order to teach young college students English literature. ... It's important for anyone trying to reach cultural competence to learn the language because then they are able to speak with the locals, read signs, communicate efficiently, and learn about the differences in cultures. When Peter got to Fuling, he quickly discovered that almost nobody spoke English there except for his students and Adam. ... Another incident similar to this happened when Peter got on the topic of racism in China with his students. ... Peter's ...

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Cooperation includes building student-student relationships as well as student-teacher relationships. ... I have to let students know they are important to me, assume and truly believe that each student has the potential to learn and contribute to society. ... I want students to know that I trust them and believe in them, that I will treat them as adults, and that they will learn much more as co-teachers with me in an interactive, discussion-oriented classroom. As a reflective practitioner, I will begin each school year by creating conversations with my classroom revolving around what the stud...

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Teaching students about Aboriginal culture can show them the importance of holding fast to the traditions and beliefs of their own culture. ... Learning Aboriginal literature will emphasize students to become interactive with others. ... It will also interest them to learn about their own history. ... In conclusion, incorporating native literature in the school system will benefit students because it teaches them to value culture, interact in the form of oral literature and to learn from history. ... There is a lot to learn from Aboriginal people way of life, which shows importance to Mother N...

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This leaves the home schooled student more free time to participate in other diverse activities. ... Public school children on the other hand have a limited age interaction, due to spending the majority of their day interacting with students their own age. ... Romanowski also finds that "by being sheltered from the real world, [these] children are seldom presented with opportunities to learn sorely needed interaction skills" (22). ... "A parent is a child's first and most influential teacher" (Riley 1), and this parental influence forces home schooled children to interact and learn in a...

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Another question that comes in mind is the extent of the legitimacy of the knowledge acquired by our students, and the equality--in terms of truthfulness, power, and organization--in distribution. ... The knowledge that we obtain from the educational system is organized by power groups and presented to society where some might learns and others fail to learn. the organization of knowledge can favor some groups over others and in turn work to preserve the social order. ... On the one hand, Critical thinking skills are are very essential for elementary and middle school level students to better ...

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Pupils also have little control over what they learn, when they learn it and how; this is, to some extent, decided by the teacher and the curriculum. ... Bowles and Gintis (1976 in Van Krieken et al. 2000, p. 194) view the education system as a place where students learn the norms and values of the capitalist workplace. ... Students learn this through the schools hidden curriculum. ... It also encourages acceptance of hierarchy, students obey teachers, and this reflects the workplace where they obey their employers. At school students are encouraged be external reward j...

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In this course of study, I am interested in various ways in which people learn, preferably through kinetics or in a physical manner. I would like to see if students can embrace and improve their learning about culture and social studies through kinetics or is it just best to teach the student in a "typical classroom setting" with desk, books and a blackboard. I would like discover if there is any difference in the socio-economic status and how they learn and are accommodations in various learning are being met. According to Howard Gardner, there are multiple intelligence and vario...

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In this course of study, I am interested in various ways in which people learn, preferably through kinetics or in a physical manner. I would like to see if students can embrace and improve their learning about culture and social studies through kinetics or is it just best to teach the student in a "typical classroom setting" with desk, books and a blackboard. I would like discover if there is any difference in the socio-economic status and how they learn and are accommodations in various learning are being met. According to Howard Gardner, there are multiple intelligence and vario...

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The Characteristics of Emotional Disturbance There are some characteristics that may be reflected of emotional disturbance: (A) An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors. ... Characteristics of Emotional Disturbance As with most students with disabilities, not all individuals with emotional disturbance will exhibit all the characteristics described here. Social Behavior Most students with emotional disturbance have problems with their social behavior, often manifested as less mature or inappropriate social skills. Some students may be particula...

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By examining the way people interact with each other on various levels it is easy to learn important skills that will help me relate to the people I meet in the workplace as well as throughout my life. ... For example, if I worked in school that contained mostly students from the lower end of the socioeconomic scale, I would need to understand where they were coming from, figuratively and literally. ... The first student would enable me to give him or her lengthy assignments to take home and go over with his or her parents, and I could be reasonably sure that this would be done. The second...

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Talking word processors help students by eliminating or reducing the cognitive effort that is needed for processing multiple stimuli presented to a student in the challenge to create written products. ... The students can moreover learn to monitor their behavior. ... The stopwatch allows the student to focus energy on assigned tasks while having a visual prompt or cue on the passage of time. 3. ... Teachers who make use of the tools with their students realize the benefits of removing particular task demands. Wen student with learning and behavioral issues used these tools, the system may exp...

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There are certain factors which affect adjustment in university for first year student. ... Required will be a change in mind-set and to learn to think independently than relying on a teacher. ... Social adjustment is important for first year students. ... In this regard students don't feel as though they are on their own. ... Socialising can be increased by giving students group assignments. ...

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When Kozol asked the students of Rye, New York whether racial integration should be put into effect for their school, one student replied, "How could it be a benefit to us?... The students of Rye argue this is not the case, because the upper class culture, such as seeing "a television movie about Boston", suggests that while people in poverty can be physical transported to a school of higher class, but "you can't take the environment out of them", and they will not be "prone to learn" (Kozol 91). The students of East St. ... The students of East St. ... ...

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The student often isolates himself in the classroom. ... When interacting with a student with Asperger's Syndrome, it is necessary for the teacher to understand some of the particular psychological needs of the student. ... A position closer to the front and away from critical or distracting students would be the most effective means of responding to the students' particular requirements for learning. ... The student's work place area should be tidy and uncluttered. ... Social skills are learned through role models and verbal instruction, some students learn them quickly. ...

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John Holt defines education as: ...something that some people do to others for their own good, moulding and shaping them, and trying to make them learn what they think they ought to know. ... We teach our children one thing about society and they learn the opposite from experience. ... That learning higher math is necessary for learning to use a computer, that learning what someone else demands you to learn is more important than learning what you want to learn. ... It is not simply the performance of students, which influences scores in language tests but their "previous training". ...

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By adding a multicultural section to their curriculums, teachers can help students, like myself, see how each individual fits into the big picture. ... Students must be aware of their own culture, and how they are similar and different from others. ... After becoming aware of these issues, students often react emotionally. ... Noel says that students would take "action aimed at positive multicultural change" (272). ... If I would have been allowed this I wouldn't have had to learn everything from movies and by observing. ...

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Moreover, the internet allow people to search for what they want to learn and it is making the learning process easier and more enjoyable. ... In addition, the internet is providing a convenient manner to students create their ideas. ... There are many students that have had problems to get focus while they are doing their homework. For example, some students have FOMO, which means Fear of Missing Out something important on a Social Media. ... The internet is almost essential in our days, it is so important that all progress of students would be affected without the help of the internet. ...

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We see that he gains a "sociological imagination" and that he realizes that he fits the definition of the "scholarship boy " when he says that he "realized that there were other students"(517) like him. Hoggart says that this type of student must be "more and more alone" (517) in order to succeed, and that this student must "cut himself off mentally, so as to do his homework, as well as he can " (517). ... As he read Robinson Crusoe, for example, he knew that the main theme or lesson of the story was "the value of learning by oneself"(526), but did not actually learn anything by taking the the...

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There is also a difference in cultural capital and student involvement that implies high-class students are more likely to advocate for themselves while lower class students are not. These factors can set back a group of students while push others far ahead (Lareau, 2000). ... Latino students have also remained apart of this increasing segregation (Orfield 2000). ... Even with desegregation efforts since the 60's, schools are still failing black students. ... Children create their own peer culture, learn the roles of adulthood, and are exposed to gender schemas early on; all that can inf...

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Each individual learns ideals and behaviors expected from him as a member of society and develops a sense of self within a field of social relations and through the parameters of his culture. ... There are some norms which can be valid for all humanity(Declaration of Human Rights), while other may concern only small groups, as the rules that impose a school to its students. ... I, as student, can choose on doing or not my homework, but I can't choose on not going to school because my parents obliged me to do so. ...

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Such is the case in the classroom, where a student who has a perfect knowledge of the subject in question may have difficulty expressing his idea due to his inability to write or communicate properly and therefore he would not receive the grade he truly deserves. ... It is "the language, values, beliefs, traditions, and customs people share and learn" (Adler, et al. 329). ... In a multicultural society, it can be useful to learn about the values and communication styles of a different culture. ... Many serious students of intercultural communication believe that ethnocentrism is not only commo...

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