...Abstract Academic achievement of a student is always a main concern for the parents that hoping for the success of their children. In fact, there are factors influencing academic achievement of a student in Malaysia. First of all, social life became a main factor to influence a student in especially from the family, friends and tutors where there might have both positive and negative impact upon the children. Apart from that, the advanced technology in this current era, co-curricular, physical evidence and personality of a student will also play their role in influencing their academic achievement. This article will discuss all the factors in depth for better understanding. Introduction: Technology There has always been a hot topic in news discussing students’ academic achievements every year, and this has become the main concern for the parents hoping for a bright future awaits for their children. Despite the odd, we often see students often panic before the major examination, burning midnight oil to strive their best to achieve flying colours. How do we determine the success of a student? In fact, there are numbers of factors influencing academic achievement of a student in Malaysia. This article will be discussing on every factors thoroughly to discover the factors that are able to cause serious impact upon academic achievements for a student. Personality Social What factors...
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...BACKWARD DESIGN/DOWNWARD DESIGN CROSS CURICULAR PLANNING MODEL Subjects /Strands: Social Studies : Heritage & Identity: Our Changing Roles and Responsibilities Grade(s): 1 Dates of possible implementation: ________________________ Culminating task due date: ________________ | |What is important for students to know? What are the enduring understandings? What is the big open question to inform learning and link curricula? (consider | |A. BIG IDEA FOR THIS UNIT |starting with big ideas in Science or Social Studies) | | | | | |BIG IDEAS: A person’s roles, responsibilities, and relationships change over time and in different situations. | | |Their own roles, responsibilities, and relationships play a role in developing their identity | | |All people are worthy of respect, regardless of their roles, relationships, and responsibilities. | | ...
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...INTRODUCTION 2 DEFINITION OF AUGMENTED REALITY 2 HISTORY OF AUGMENTED REALITY 2 APPLICATION OF AUGMENTED REALITY 3 GAMING AND ENTERTAINMENT 3 EDUCATION 3 MUSEUMS 3 SECURITY AND DEFENCE 3 MEDICINE 4 BUSINESS 4 TECHNOLOGY BEHIND AUGMENTED REALITY 5 HARDWARE 5 HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAYS 5 TRACKERS 5 HAPTICS 5 SOFTWARE: 5 ADVANTAGES OF AUGMENTED REALITY 6 DISADVANTAGES OF AUGMENTED REALITY 6 ETHICAL ISSUES 6 BIBLIOGRAPHY 8 INTRODUCTION There was an interesting news at www.bbc.co.uk, on 25th June, 2010 it was titled “The promise of augmented reality: Gaga in a living room”, the news reported a company who developed and demonstrated an augmented reality system which generate a virtual image in 3D mapped onto a wall paper, with the use of a device with camera, (Hudson, 2011). Although augmented reality have been in existence in a similar form called Virtual reality, but it has taken a step forward, (Maad, 2008). As a consequence of the relevance of digital and media technology, there is an increase request for the development of new application which is capable of harnessing the power of augmented reality, in meeting the needs of various industries. DEFINITION OF AUGMENTED REALITY Augmented Reality can be described as the process of overlaying computer generated image, sound and information over a real life object, in real time, (Ludwig, 2009). It enhances the real world, rather than replace it, (Azuma, 1997). Augmented Reality has the following...
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...of ritual insubordination, parody (e.g., laughing outlandishly at a staff member's feeble joke), and other forms of exaggerated compliance. This behaviour is also reminiscent to the defiant stance that permeated the actions of Willis's lads. In the corridors, for example, there would be a foot-dragging walk, an over friendly 'hello,' or a sudden silence as the deputy passed. In the class room, Willis observed, there would be 'a continuous scraping of chairs, a bad-tempered ‘tut-tutting’ at the simplest request, and a continuous fidgeting about which explores every permutation of sitting or lying on a chair.' If someone sat on the radiator, it was because his trousers were 'wet from the rain.' If one of the lads drifted across the classroom he would be 'going to get some paper for written work. By engaging in these verbal and non-verbal forms of resistance the lads successfully created 'an aimless air of insubordination ready with spurious justification and impossible to nail down' (Willis, 1977). Willis's lads took immense pleasure in antagonizing school authority and maintained a strong sense of their collective identity in the process. In similar fashion, Limerick's young men resist mainstream norms by adopting a defiant and anti authoritarian stance. By engaging in various forms of law breaking activities young men can express their refusal to settle for a subordinate social status. Joyriding, is a particularly effective and conspicuous front stage strategy and...
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...Historically, in cases of peer-to-peer abuse, whether physical or emotional, the blame is laid on the belligerent boys or girls. The bystanders who hover, chime in, or squirm on the outskirts of the 'mean' action are dismissed as irrelevant. Also dismissed are those who spread the tale of the victim's woe through the grapevine. In truth, however, this supporting cast plays a significant role in peer-to-peer violence....Bystanders make or break bullying episodes." (Our Children) This article examines the role of the bystander in bullying incidents and outlines some strategies to help encourage young bystanders to act in these situations. OUR CHILDREN Nov./Dec. 2003, pp. 8-10 Reprinted with permission from National PTA. Article originally appeared in OUR CHILDREN magazine, Vol.29, No.3, November/December 2003 pp. 8-10. The Bystander: A Bully's Often-Unrecognized Accomplice By Margaret Sagarese and Charlene C. Giannetti A few years ago, an upstate New York newspaper headline noted that 60 high school girls and boys, ages 14 to 21, faced criminal prosecution for leering at and cheering on two brawling 15-year-old boys. The headline and accompanying story startled us. What we found amazing about this news item was that the police were holding "the human boxing ring" accountable. The "innocent bystander" status usually accorded people on the periphery of such violence was ruled out. The furor over the Glenbrook North High School (Northbrook, Illinois)...
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...Introduction Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has gained an increasingly high attention in recent years. CSR can be defined as the ways in which businesses align their values and behaviors with their various stakeholders such as employees, suppliers, customers, government and other societal interests on whom their operation may have an impact. The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Dubai government and the UAE has always been present from the earliest Islamic times, with people and organizations practising Islamic values, donating through philanthropy and Shariah compliant ways of commerce. In recent years, there have been worldwide initiatives to invest responsibly and focus on investing profits into community life and saving the environment. CSR addresses a company’s transparency or openness and considering its stakeholders’ expectations. This means that business does more than act out of self-interest and shows social responsibility (Juholin, 2004). Companies cannot operate any more entirely independently and need to consider the needs of society and welfare of the community. Organizations now realize that in order to survive and stay unique in business and obtain strategic advantages, they need to practice being socially responsible. Many larger organizations have already integrated CSR into their strategic plans as an important factor in order to have a sustainable business. Although larger enterprises have more impact on society today, SMEs are...
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...Early life[edit] Rosso was born in the village of Brugine in the Northeastern Italian region of Veneto. His parents were farmers and he grew up under simple conditions, regularly helping his father after school. Having seen the laborious life required for a farmer, Rosso aspired to do something different from his parents and in 1970 began studying industrial Textile Manufacturing at the Marconi Technical Institute in Padua. There, he produced, at the age of 15, his first self-designed garment, a pair of low-waist bell-bottomed jeans using his mother's Singer sewing machine. He kept experimenting with different jeans models and would give each pair to friends or sell them at school for about 3500 lire[1] (equivalent of 1,80 Euro in current prices).[5] In 1973 he began studying Economics at the University of Venice, where in addition to helping his father on the farm, he also financed his studies by working as a mechanic and as a carpenter. Diesel[edit] Beginnings of Diesel[edit] Diesel logo Rosso dropped out of the University of Venice in 1975 and began to work as a Production Manager at Moltex, a local clothing manufacturer that produced trousers for various Italian clothing labels. Moltex' parent company, the Genius Group, was run by Adriano Goldschmied who would eventually become Rosso's mentor and future business partner. During Rosso's first two years at Moltex the company grew rapidly. In 1978, after Rosso had managed to increase the company's production beyond what...
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...Book Review: The TIPPING POINT HOW LITTLE THINGS CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE ByMalcolm Gladwell Table of Contents Introduction and Summary…………………………………………………………………… Page 2 Objectives of Study…………………………………………………………………………….Page 2 Method of Study…...………………………………………………………………………….. Page 2 Chapter wise summary and Critical Analyses……...…...…………………………………….. Page 3 Theoretical Framework………...……………………………………………………………… Page 6 Relating Theories to Practical Aspects……………………….……….………………………. Page 7 Learning and Conclusion…………………………………………………………………….... Page 9 “The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate.” -Malcolm Gladwell Introduction and Summary Malcolm Gladwell’s book The Tipping Pointis a compilation of compelling ideas and innovative thoughts in a field of study which so far had been considered mysterious and unquantifiable.The book challenges this premise and provides its readers with insights through real life examples and case studies which indicate how societies and individuals in a society can be influenced in order to tip ad existing trend and establish a new one. He decries the process with three key rules- the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, and the Power of Context, with...
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...NHTV University of Applied Sciences DATE!! Advisory Report ’t Schip CREM II Group J Fabiana Meaño;Tibor van Noesel;Nathalie Muti;Inge Broeders;Ivo Bruijnaers;Mirjam te Brinke Advisory report ’t Schip – Savills CREM II Group J Tutor Maarten Staps Theme manager Pieter le Roux Fabiana Meaño 121145 Tibor van Noesel 123539 Nathalie Muti 122703 Inge Broeders 111052 Ivo Bruijnaers 123352 Mirjam te Brinke 121001 Preface Table of Content Preface 2 Introduction 4 Deliverable 1 Research Questions 5 Deliverable 2 Plan of Approach 6 Deliverable 3 Context Analysis 10 Deliverable 4 Building Analysis 14 Deliverable 5 Industry Analysis 16 Deliverable 6 Optimization / Transformation 20 Deliverable 7 Company Profile & Program of Requirements 21 Bibliography 26 Introduction Deliverable 1 Research Questions 1.1 Main question How can this building generate future profit for the owner of the building? 1.2 Sub-questions 1. In what way does the context/surroundings influence the attractiveness of the building? (deliverable ‘context analysis’) 2. In what way does the exterior of the building influence the attractiveness? (deliverable ‘building analysis’) 3. In what way does the interior of the building influence the attractiveness? (deliverable ‘building analysis’) 4. What kind of service contracts is used with this building? 5. What are the rental/service prices? 6. What are the possible target groups...
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...education authorities to the Concept of a National Student Wellbeing Framework 11 5.3 Student Wellbeing in State and Territory Curriculum and Policy Documents 11 Section 6: Whole School Approaches to Student Wellbeing: Issues of School Leadership, Implementation and Sustainability of Student Wellbeing Initiatives 12 Section 1: Project Overview 13 1.1 Introduction 13 1.2 Project Objectives 13 1.3 Methodology 14 Section 2: Student Wellbeing and its Pathways 16 2.1 What is Student Wellbeing? 16 The Definition of Student Wellbeing Used in this Report 21 Explanations of Key Terms in this Definition 21 The Assumptions Underpinning this Definition 22 2.2 The Pathways to Student Wellbeing 22 The seven pathways identified from the research 23 Section 3: The Outcomes of Student Wellbeing and its Pathways 31 3.1 Introduction 31 Productivity 31 Social Inclusion 32 Social...
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...Bibliography for Social Network Sites related thesis Aaltonen, S,, Kakderi, C,, Hausmann, V, and Heinze, A. (2013). Social media in Europe: Lessons from an online survey. In proceedings of the 18th UKAIS Annual Conference: Social Information Systems. (pp. Availalable online). USIR. , and 2013, , in: , 19-20 March 2013, Worcester College, Oxford, UK. (conference paper) Acquisti, Alessandro, and Gross, Ralph. (2006). Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook.In Golle, P. and Danezis, G. (Eds.), Proceedings of 6th Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. (pp. 36--58).Cambridge, U.K. Robinson College. June 28-30. (conference paper) Acquisti, Alessandro, and Gross, Ralph. (2009). Predicting Social Security numbers from public data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106 (27), 10975-10980. (journal article) Adamic, Lada, Buyukkokten,Orkut, and Eytan Adar. (2003). A social network caught in the Web. First Monday, 8 (6). (journal article) Adrien Guille, Hakim Hacid, Cécile Favre, and Djamel A. Zighed. (2013). Information diffusion in online social networks: a survey. SIGMOD Record, 42 (2). (journal article) Agarwal, S., and Mital, M.. (2009). Focus on Business Practices: An Exploratory Study of Indian University Students' Use of Social Networking Web Sites: Implications for the Workplace. Business Communication Quarterly. (journal article) Ahmed OH, Sullivan SJ, Schneiders AG, and McCrory P. (2010). iSupport:...
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...thesis has been supplied on condition that anyone who consults it is understood to recognise that its copyright rests with its author and that no quotation from the thesis and no information derived from it may be published without the prior written consent of the author’. This thesis may be made available for consultation within the University Library and may be photocopied or lent to other libraries for the purposes of consultation. …………………………… Contents Tables and Figures 2 Acknowledgements 3 Abstract 4 Preface 5 Introduction 13 Chapter 1 A Cultural Context 18 Chapter 2 An Autobiography 25 Chapter 3 Methodology 40 Chapter 4 The School's Action Research Cycles 89 Chapter 5 School Effectiveness and School Improvement 107 Chapter 6 Vignette 1 Alan Shelton a Teacher 'Par Excellence' 120 Chapter 7 Some More Vignettes 158 Chapter 8 A Personal Development Review 184 Chapter 9 The Circle is Completed 190 References 234 Vol 1.2 Appendices Appendix 1 An Historical Account of Development and Synergy of School Effectiveness and School Improvement 262 Appendix 2 Yr 11 Mentoring Report 286 Appendix 3 Soft Indicator Tool 291 Appendix 4 Raising Achievement Working Party 295 Appendix 5 My Personality as Seen by Others 300 Appendix 6 The History of My Teaching 306 Appendix...
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...MAINSTREAMING Disaster Risk Reduction IN SCHOOLS’ CURRICULUA (ANALYTICAL INSTRuMENT FOR POLICY ADVOCACY) By, AmjAd NAzeer Indus ConsortIum (IC) (December 2012, IslamabaD, Pakistan) 0 “Things like DRR need to be there in the textbooks. Aspired to interpret, we ourselves will learn further and teach children better. Children will in turn explain things to their younger brothers and sisters, even to their parents and to those who cannot read or write. The new learning has a capacity to inform, who should do what during, before or after a disaster.” Ali Akbar, A primary school teacher in Chack Tumb Bhel, U.C Khoski, Badin. “Disaster Reduction Begins at School” (United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 2006-8) 1 CONTENTS 1. Introduction……………………………………………………………………..……3 2. Growing Frequency of Natural Disasters: A Major Concern……..….…………7 3. Relevant UN Conventions and Other International Commitments….…………7 4. Impact of Natural Disasters on Children and Schools.……………………….....9 5. Education and Psychosocial Impact on Children………………………………10 6. Connecting Education, Safe Schooling and DRR……………………………...10 7. Significance of Mainstreaming DRR in Curriculum and Children’s Potential Role....…………………………………...……………………………………….…12 8. Approaches to Integrate DRR with Sindh and Punjab’s Textbooks….…..…..14 8.1. Infusion or Permeation Approach…………….…………………………………16 8.1.1. Holistic Review of Sindhi, Urdu And English Textbooks….……………..…17 8.1.1.1. Sindhi and Asaan...
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...English-E11-12 7/27/07 2:24 PM Page 1 Ministry of Education The Ontario Curriculum Grades 11 and 12 English Printed on recycled paper 07-003 ISBN 978-1-4249-4741-6 (Print) ISBN 978-1-4249-4742-3 (PDF) ISBN 978-1-4249-4743-0 (TXT) © Queen’s Printer for Ontario, 2007 2007 REVISED CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 Secondary Schools for the Twenty-first Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Importance of Literacy, Language, and the English Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Principles Underlying the English Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Roles and Responsibilities in English Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE PROGRAM IN ENGLISH 3 3 4 5 9 Overview of the Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Curriculum Expectations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Strands in the English Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT Basic Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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...Roen−Glau−Maid: The McGraw−Hill Guide: Writing for College, Writing for Life, 2/e II. Using What You’ve Learned to Share Information The McGraw-Hill Guide: Writing for College, Writing for Life, Second Edition 4. Writing to Share Experience © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2011 13 Reading, Inquiry, and Research ■ PART 2 | Using What You Have Learned to Share Information 57 TANYA BARRIENTOS Se Habla Español MEMOIR he man on the other end of the phone line is 1 Tanya Maria telling me the classes I’ve called about are firstBarrientos has rate: native speakers in charge, no more than six stuwritten for the dents per group. Philadelphia “Conbersaychunal,” he says, allowing the fat vow- 2 Inquirer for more than els of his accented English to collide with the sawedtwenty years. off consonants. I tell him that will be fi ne, that I’m familiar with 3 Barrientos was born in Guatethe conversational setup, and yes, I’ve studied a bit mala and raised of Spanish in the past. He asks for my name and I in El Paso, Texas. Her first novel, Frontera Street, was supply it, rolling the double r in Barrientos like a pro. published in 2002, and her second, That’s when I hear the silent snag, the momentary Family Resemblance, was pubhesitation I’ve come to expect at this part of the exlished in 2003. Her column “Unchange. Should I go into it again? Should I explain, conventional Wisdom” runs every the way I have to half a dozen others, that I am Guaweek in the Inquirer...
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