Hey! this is Raghda Al Suwaina from Saudi Arabia. I have been here in the state since dec 2012 to continue my study which is Information Technology and this is my first semester at NOVA as academic. I'm planning to open my own business after I finish my degree. My favorite hobby is taking picture especially for people and print it, also i enjoy watching movie at theater and listen to music while I'm walking around to relax. Titanic and The call my favorite movies and Blame it on me for Akon. my
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Tracy Thompson EXP 105 Essay Explaining learning to someone who has not taken this class yet is quite simple. Learning is simply taking something unknown and being able to use and apply it to something in your daily life. My views of learning has expanded, because it has taught me how to learn better and expanded on my thought process on how to absorb information better for my learning style. I still feel my definition is the same looking back at week one but to add to that it must be catered to
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Brainology 1) A fixed mindset is when a person believes that you are born with your intelligence and cannot improve it. A fixed mindset cares how intelligent they appear to others and will give up if it makes them feel inadequate. 2) a) Students with a fixed mindset believe that if you worked hard it meant that you didn’t have ability, and that things would just come naturally to you if you did. b) After a setback, students with a fixed mindset were more likely to say that they would
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education. Everyone has their own level of “intelligence quotation or IQ” according to Shearman (1927) and Truman (1916). They believed that if a person was born with a high intelligence it would stand them in good stead throughout their life, passing one test would generally mean going on to pass subsequent tests, compared to a person born with a low “IQ”. MacIntosh and Maisie-Taylor (1985) believed differently in that these type of intelligence tests were not an accurate indication to a persons’
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Continuing Academic Success Caress Alexander GEN/201 BRANDI MORRELL Continuing Academic Success Success, the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors; the accomplishment of one's goals. When I first started this class I didn’t think that it was going to be very useful. I thought that I was going to learn how to study more effectively and maybe learn how plan my schedule better. Little did I know that I would learn life lessons with will stick with me for the rest of
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In this paper we considered the concept of How People Learn HPL framework that was used by a National Academy of Science Committee to organize what is known about learning and teaching (National Research Council, 2000). The framework's includes four components where we to have "mini theories" about learning and teaching: * What should be taught, why it is important, and how this knowledge should be organized (knowledge-centeredness) * Who learns, how, and why (learner-centeredness) * What
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communicate something completely different than what I am trying to communicate- it’s all about the set of rules for that particular language. I thought the Intelligence section was interesting in how it posed the question of what intelligence really is, and how intelligence testing has been used in the past. I was surprised to learn that intelligence testing was being
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Strategies for Learning from Failure Written by Amy C. Edmondson, this article on Harvard Business Review, outlines and interprets key perspectives and strategies that need to be considered when analyzing failures and learning from them. Edmondson shrewdly pinpoints the common downfalls that many senior executives fall into when encountering a failure, such as the blame game, and how factors such as this are counterproductive to tracing the real root of the problem and how to constructively learn
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of security (emotional) finally (social) they will start to communicate with other children and their primary careers. During your childhood to fulfil your PIES you will need to start to walk unaided, draw and write, and develop a sense of balance (physical); learn new skills such as throwing and catching, improve on your communication skills and know how to behave acceptably (intellectual); form better bonds with family members and meets new friends to form bonds with (emotional) and finally socialise
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INTRODUCTION Principles are laid down rules or facts discovered through systematic investigations which has been tested and proven to be true. Effective instruction is the process of helping students to achieve the best results they can and make a difference in their lives as well as the society. The principles of effective instruction are fundamental ideas that make the instructional process effective and efficient. There are several principles of effective instructions; five of these principles
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