the Web. Teachers, however, are becoming more dissatisfied with distance learning methods and remain adamant about face to face courses; in response to the competition between online and face to face courses, discord has erupted among teachers and their students. Ellen Laird effectively compares and contrasts the two distinct teaching ideologies and their effects on students and on teachers; Laird accomplishes her analysis of
I'm about to go to college. The whole idea of that scares me because I don’t even know what I want to major in yet. I think I speak for all teenagers when I say that we need advice on college. I went to my cousin, Patrick Craig, for help on this subject. He is on his second year of college at WVU so I figured he would be the best person to ask about his experiences. I decided to ask him a couple questions about his time so far at college and his overall experience with it. I asked him what the steps
simple sentences in our journals. We were writing research papers, and my teacher brought up the new, unfamiliar word. We had about a thirty minute discussion over the great importance of writing our own
Waldo Emerson, a graduate of Harvard, is credited with initiating the crusade against conformity, and one major theme of the transcendentalist movement is the idea that life is about learning and growing through experience. Walt Whitman conveys this precise message in his poem, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” and the essay “Walden,” by Henry David Thoreau, captures the essence of transcendentalist ideals by discussing the author’s experience with abandoning his worldly possessions and living in
curriculum of the school district would stress the significance of this type of writing and teachers would support the teaching of cursive by speaking of its significance in the higher levels of the educational world. They gave personal anecdotes of how cursive saved them when writing long essays and what not, to further support the sentiment that it would carry over very much into high school and university. Teachers would spend time teaching us the strokes of each cursive letter and the students would
Education is to muscle as educational technology is to muscular dystrophy for the muscle of education. Technology is becoming ever popular in the twenty-first century. Education is also becoming a requirement for today’s high paying careers. A high paying career is highly sought-after. However, technology does not benefit education. Technology can render education useless just as dystrophy can render muscles useless. Technology for instructional purposes is ineffective compared to old school methods
to truly learn. Scott Trudell states in his critical essay, "’When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer’ presents a speaker who is distanced from the unity of all things, and who is admonishing and discontent in his observations about the world around him.” Whitman very much believed in hands-on experience as a beneficial learning method because he realizes that not all students learn the same way. This idea still lives in modern day schools; teachers are encouraged to not only teach from the textbook,
Teachers don’t realize that these “devices” are actually one of the best and most manageable to use reference tools. They are equipped with calculators, dictionaries, thesauri, and even apps that help with finding rhymes! It’s like magic what these phones
Now, open. Before your eyelids even stirred, a new technological advancement was made. The whirlpool of technology spins so vigorously before us that it gives us two choices, join the spin or get sucked into oblivion. My dear principal, beloved teachers and staff, invited guests and students, technology is the future of our learning. As we live in an intricate age, going to school to simply memorize facts is futile but rather, learning to understand and apply the concepts learnt is extremely essential
A topic which comes up frequently is technology and how it is becoming more useful by the day. Technology has been introduced into classrooms more and more every year. In Glasgow schools there are Smart Boards and a computer in every classroom, this is the alternative of using a whiteboard/blackboard. Smart Boards allow lessons to be displayed on a large screen as well as pupils to interact with the lesson through quizzes and games which makes lessons more fun. Although many people disagree with