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Education in Our Networked Future
general education

Education in Our Networked Future

- by Mary Lebowitz

As we enter the Connected Age, our education systems are increasingly falling short. We have carefully crafted and refined the education system, schools, vocational colleges and secular universities, but they are edifices of different age.

There are three reasons why I say so.

First, we have moved from time of information scarcity to information abundance. Today’s challenge is not to access information, but to check its credential and to be able to use it in context. But our prescriptive education is mostly about ‘knowing’ things rather than ‘discovery’. The school system is designed to discourage inventiveness and questioning. The students are still required to write memorized answers rather than Googling the facts and building independent or collaborative coursework.

Moreover, the education system today is built as Value Chain systems. The focus is on the Process, and the whole ideis to add value to student who turns up at the beginning of the semester so that she can meet the end-Semester requirements. But such standardized processes are, by definition, inflexible to accommodate diverse learning preferences of individuals. The mass produced education also discriminates against niche subjects and special interests. This education system fails to meet its societal need – because making accountants out of artists does not sound like smart ideany more.

Finally, today’s learners come to college after seeing computer at home for their entire lifetime, having their mobile phones since their school days and most, if not all, have their best friends on Facebook or Orkut. They come from …

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How to Write a Tutorial That Makes Your Readers Smarter
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How to Write a Tutorial That Makes Your Readers Smarter

- by Mary Lebowitz

One of the most shared types of content online is the tutorial. Teaching your blog’s audience to complete a task not only establishes you as an expert, it also makes your readers smarter and more loyal.

How-to articles are only useful if they’re understandable, though, so let’s talk about how to write amazing tutorials.

Start With the Very Basics

Bloggers make the mistake of assuming their readers know where to start. The result is a tutorial that’s too complicated for beginners to understand, or that is unhelpful because it starts in the wrong place.

Pretend that your reader is an absolute beginner on your topic, and start with the very first step needed to achieve a goal. For example, if you’re writing a tutorial about using WordPress, start with logging into the WordPress admin dashboard and go from there

A good proofreading technique it is to pretend that you’re explaining the process to your mother.

Be as Thorough As Possible

Your tutorial will always make sense to you, but the key is for every step to be clear to your readers. Don’t skip around or breeze through parts that seem “easy.” Slow down and describe every key action in detail. Users who truly “get it” will just scroll past those. Beginners will be thankful for the extensive advice.

Use Screenshots Images to Guide the Reader

A lot of people are visual learners, so use screenshots to illustrate the process you’re trying to teach. These pictures don’t have to be  can …

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Parents Who Take Their Kids To School
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Parents Who Take Their Kids To School

- by Mary Lebowitz

It is either an honor or a chore to be responsible for dropping your kids off at school. The choice is truly yours. Strive to do things to capitalize on this time with your kids. This article applies to both moms and dads who take their kids to school. How many of you have friends with kids older than yours? What’s the single most popular piece of advice you get from them? With me it’s; “Take advantage of each  grow up so quick”! Other times it is “Spend as much time as you can because tomorrow may never come”.

With that said I try to enjoy the very short trip to school with my daughter Cheyenne. I keep the radio off and talk to her about her school day. She enjoys her school but I know the days can be long so I try to plant reminder seeds of the fun things to come. For example “Hey Cheyenne, don’t forget, we’re going camping this weekend”. I talk about needing weekend plans as adults in my book Building Foundations By Setting Goals to boost our moods and ease the grind of the work week. This concept works well for kids too. Remind them to focus on the fun times ahead when they get frustrated or tired of being in school. Tell them it will help them plow ahead with their school work moving them closer to the fun times.

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The Dietrich College Of Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Studies

- by Mary Lebowitz

general educationA GED or General Education Diploma is often also called a General Education Improvement plan. Young kids had been taught the worth of the Constitution, the book was referred to as “Catechism on the Constitution.” Early Americans knew that they had a unique and invaluable invention of political science and they had been determined to market it on all levels of education.

Then, a teacher can customize instruction by supplying effective activities primarily based on what is accessible to the teacher and what the ELL can do. If teachers want ELLs to succeed just like their native English speaking peers, they need to have to be prepared a wide selection of finding out choices.

General education teachers need encouragement, guidance and help to see the positive aspects of collaborating with ESL teachers and vis-versa. Since Keller’s time, specific educational curriculums and schools have drastically advanced. Let’s appear at the general education pattern for California State University, San Bernardino, a university of roughly 18,000 students in southern California.

They turn into dependent upon the adults for structuring their globe and providing motivation to comprehensive tasks learning becomes optional. Many of these who do not have their higher school diploma are engaged in a full time job that prevents them from attending GED preparation classes.

In such settings, teachers with training in assisting students with disabilities can adopt specialized education strategies. Nonetheless, a disadvantage to this specialization is that students will not be amongst mainstream students, which could lead to feelings of …

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