...We are a consultant company known as ‘Team A’. Our company has been contracted by the Sony Corporation to research and present a proposal that will assist their organization in becoming more innovative. Our first task is to learn who Sony Corp. is and what is this organization’s mission and values. By understanding Sony Corp’s mission and values our team can get them on the road to becoming a more innovative organization. We will then analyze how innovation, design, and creativity support Sony’s goal and objectives. Lastly, we will identify the internal and external drivers of innovation for Sony Corp.We are a consultant company known as ‘Team A’. Our company has been contracted by the Sony Corporation to research and present a proposal that will assist their organization in becoming more innovative. Our first task is to learn who Sony Corp. is and what is this organization’s mission and values. By understanding Sony Corp’s mission and values our team can get them on the road to becoming a more innovative organization. We will then analyze how innovation, design, and creativity support Sony’s goal and objectives. Lastly, we will identify the internal and external drivers of innovation for Sony Corp.We are a consultant company known as ‘Team A’. Our company has been contracted by the Sony Corporation to research and present a proposal that will assist their organization in becoming more innovative. Our first task is to learn who Sony Corp. is and what is this organization’s mission...
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...other wise known as andragogy. It will be based upon me recently working in a HR graduate position at the Google office in Sydney. I will be covering what andragogy actually means and the types of principles of learning that are suggested by this theory by Malcolm Knowles. Then I shall be writing suggestions on how the Google training manager could use the principles of the theory andragogy in skills training at Google, on the principles they have yet to introduce in their training. Finally I will list four references that I will recommend to the HR manager at Google that I found gave me a better understanding of andragogy. Introduction Learning is "a relatively permanent change in behaviour (or behaviour potential) resulting from one's experiences" (Delahaye, 2011: 31). When adults are learning, we call this andragogy. As we already should know, adults learn vastly different to how children learn (pedagogy). There are many key differences in the learning department when comparing children to adults, such as instead of asking what, adults would ask why. Andragogy is a theory that holds a set of assumptions about how adults learn and it holds a great importance on the value of the process of learning. At the Google office in Sydney, the environment and people there are great to work in, and it feels as though the way they have set up, helps the workers get ideas and allows them to do work at a steady pace and still get it done. They have...
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...Culture of Inquiry Please work with your department faculty to develop a graduate profile that reflects common goals among all departments and in relationship to our mission statement. This graduate profile should be ready prior to our next Program Chairs meeting on October 7th, when we will discuss and come to agreement about what we believe is our “ultimate” graduate profile. Following program chairs’ agreement, the material will go to the full faculty for discussion and vote. I will also gather input from Student Affairs so that we understand their contribution to the success of our students. Readings about assessment and what it is are attached.* As I mentioned earlier, we will be working our way through this process together, and developing our assessment program in relationship to the goals and values unique (and/or integral) to this institution. Additional readings are on reserve in the library, and an enormous amount of information is available on the web. *Distributed at the Program Chairs meeting on 9.9.2008 MISSION Maine College of Art delivers a demanding and enlivening education in visual art and design within an intimate learning community. We teach each student how to transform aspirations and values into a creative practice that serves as the foundation for a lifelong pursuit of personal and professional goals. VALUES o Maine College of Art’s educational philosophy is built on the premise that focused individual attention and meaningful collective...
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...change in a turbulent, global environment. Business organizations use information systems to store and retrieve data, the raw material in knowledge-based economies. This repository of data is organizational memory. Databases are an important component of the organizational memory. Thus, information systems professionals should develop a comprehensive understanding of data management principles to fully utilize the organizational role of information technology. This course provides core skills of data management for the relational database management systems. This course will review the theoretical concepts and applications of a modern relational database management system. In addition to a basic theoretical presentation of the database design concepts, students will be required to design and develop a database application using a modern fourth generation language system. This course teaches students data modeling and design techniques and how to transform data models into database designs. Another basic component of this course is the use of SQL – Structured Query Language. Students will also learn how to create databases, modify databases, and develop queries using SQL. In addition, this course also teaches the management of database resources in an organization. Course Learning...
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...content of our language like task ordering, how we say it, and how we describe individuals or group members While nonverbal communication is all behaviors including facial expressions, body position, posture, movement, hand gestures, and paralinguistic behaviors (Cheesebro, O’Connor & Rios, 2010). Therefore, good communication skills are imperative, because knowing how to get your point across effectively so that your audience understands exactly what you are trying to say helps close the communication gap among people. There are several principals involved in both verbal and nonverbal communications. The first principle of verbal communication is recognizing that every language has a significant value. Even though there are many different languages in the world, they are all equally important (Cheesebro, O’Connor & Rios, 2010). The second principle is recognizing the many dialects all of the languages that exist in the world. For example, Americans who live in the North have a different accent then those who live in the South. Moreover, those who live in the North may have a hard time understanding people from the South because of their accent (Cheesebro, O’Connor & Rios, 2010). The third principle involves understanding what one person says in their own language or dialect may not mean the same thing to someone else in their language or dialect. As a result, it can lead to a miscommunication because of the lack of understanding between the different languages. The...
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...Development Plan PSY301 Individual Development Plan When focusing on how important it is to have an individual focus it is as equally important to realize what is key to focus on when developmental goals and emotional competencies are considered in both my professional and personal life. While learning the different competencies I realized there are certain ones that I need to focus on improving specifically in my professional life in my goals to be a manager in a healthcare organization in the near future. One competency that I feel I have to focus on developing is Emotional Self-Awareness. My goal is to become more self-aware of my environment and surroundings, develop an understanding of my goals and how to get there and focusing on what is needed for me to get to where I want to be. Self-Motivation is an emotional tendency that I need to focus on learning how to gain and simplify so I can reach my goals. This competency is important in both my personal goals and professional goals to gain an achievement and drive to improve my current techniques and learn new ones that will encourage me to want to learn how to be a better person and to encourage me to want to meet a standard of excellence in my commitment as a mother, wife, employee and a person in this very unique world we live in. There are many areas of developmental improvement that are essential towards maximizing my professional understanding and focusing on gaining and improving my management and ethical skills...
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...As teachers, we have to ask ourselves what are goals are for our students. We want them to leave our class with an understanding of the material we teach them, but is this our only goal? We know we do not want them to memorize material just long enough to take a test or write a paper. We want them to understand the lessons we spend countless hours preparing. We also want them to become motivated lifelong learners. The question is how do we go about this almost seemingly impossible task? There are two types of motivation: extrinsic and intrinsic. According to “Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Goal Contents in Self-Determination Theory: Another Look at the Quality of Academic Motivation” by Maarten Vansteenkiste, Willy Lens, and Edward Deci, to achieve our goals, we will need to use not only intrinsic motivational goals, but also the language that is associated with it. Extrinsic motivational goals focus on things such as grades, teacher and peer acknowledgment, and parental approval. Intrinsic motivational goals focus on things such as personal growth, community contribution and connection. When intrinsic goal setting is in place, there is “less focus on external indicators of worth,” (Vansteenkiste et al., pg.24) which means learning and performance are better. Using intrinsic goal framing provides deep level processing and yields better test scores. Extrinsic motivational strategies take away from the natural intrinsic motivation in students. Brophy agrees and states, “expected...
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...Auditory (A), Read/Write (R) and Kinaesthetic (K) types of learning approaches. The Visual (V) learner learns best by the use of information by visual means (using of charts, mindmaps, and other visual aids). The Auditory (A) learner understands best by hearing the information. The Read/Write (R) learner learns best when the information is shown in written word or displayed. The Kinaesthetic (K) learner learns best with practice or simulation (Liew, Sidhu, & Barua, 2015). In the past, institutional study methods were confined to lectures and self-study. A major part of education depended upon lectures. Information technology had widely changed the modes available related to knowledge acquirements for 21st century students. With a variety of educational aids available these days, it is important to identify the most efficient way to complement and deliver knowledge in order to help the students to become exceptional learners. In this way they can become the best students possible. Types of Learning Kenesthetic Learning Through this questionnaire I discovered that my personal learning style is kinesthetic. Kinesthetic means that you prefer to learn using experiences, or hands on action (Kinesthetic Strategies, n.d.). An example of this would be practical exercises, hands on experience, or real life application. These definitions hold valid in my case as I have a propensity to learn...
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...Both ways have their similar merits and also have distinct advantages that make them different from each other. To begin with, personal experience and advice from parents and peers guide us how to function in the world. Some people prefer to learn on the lift by others experience and advice while others prefer to get experience by their own. Both ways enhance our knowledge, however it depends on the people’s character. Lets take on advice first. Most of us like giving advice but few of us enjoy taking advice from other people. When we give advice, we use our experience as a lever to convince another person that our perspective is accurate. Unfortunately because we are prone to accepting others advice, we often need to learn things by ourselves. By listening to the advice of family and friends, we can learn without suffering. If someone has a bad experience, they can convey this to other people and encourage them not to repeat their mistakes. A lesson that one person learns over a period of five years could be summarized in twenty minutes to another person. The result is being that both people have the same knowledge but the second person require a fraction of the time to learn the same thing. If each person life has to start from square one, we would never achieve progress because we would all be making the same mistakes over and over again. Advice of family, friends, and especially older person has a lot of benefits to one another. The experience from them will give us a compressive...
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...Going through chapter three, I find most of the information is belonging to how African American life and how they get their education in the US. We are living in a world that is constantly engaging in efforts to integrate diverse cultures in education and communities. In education, they have a variety of different methods in how students learn and how the basic styles help individual learners such as African American. I would like to discuss this question that says African American possess certain learning which enable them to learn more efficiently. I will discuss this question from different points of view. It could be the true that African Americans tend to learn efficiently but still everyone has potential to learn whatever he/ her wants. Learning process it depends on the person him/ her self. I will outline a plan, discuss that everyone has a potential to learn. Moreover, the economic statues can play an...
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...different ways of learning including both activity and study based learning, explaining the effect of understanding your learning style. Learning styles are different approaches or ways of learning. Everyone has a preferred learning style and learn better through different means. Understanding our preferred learning style and how to best meet the needs of that particular style is essential to improve our performance in education. In order to understand information we take it all in with our senses, through sight, sound, touch, smell or taste. The Vak system is categorized into three main styles: Visual, auditory and Kinaesthetic. This essay will explore these learning styles as well as activity and study based learning. Also the effect of understanding our preferred style. Visual is learning though seeing information presented in an illustrated or graphical way. 29% of us prefer to learn by seeing ( Smith 1998). Visual styles of learning is effective by communicating through pictures, diagrams, videos, charts, remembering what we see and needing an overall picture and purpose before we start ( Kelly, n.d). Auditory is learning through spoken words or listening. This particular type of learners Learns best through hearing things and benefits from class lectures. According to ( Smith 1998) 34% of us enjoy communicating through this particular style. Auditory learners learn more effectively by listening to audio tapes, radio programmes, reading aloud, through discussion...
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...Learning Learning and teaching We would suggest that learning and teaching are two sides of the same coin and our understanding of what it means to be a good teacher (see Critical reflection on teaching) is based in part on what we had to do to become successful learners, so this area of our belief system will provide fruitful material for evaluation and reflection. Williams and Burden express this well: The successful educator must be one who understands the complexities of the teaching-learning process and can draw upon this knowledge to act in ways which empower learners both within and beyond the classroom situation. (Williams and Burden,1997: 5) As a start to reflecting on your teaching, you are asked to reflect on (your own) learning. Take a few moments to: • think about the strategies, techniques and approaches that you personally found helpful (or not) as a learner • consider whether we should assume that others (especially your students) will respond in the same way • analyse distinctive elements of learning in your own subject or discipline Exploring learning We probably all have personal beliefs about how learning happens. Take a few more moments to think about your own learning • Do you consider yourself to be a successful learner of your subject? Why (not?) • Are there any particular strategies or techniques that work(ed) well for you as a learner? • Did you learn your subject in the best way? If you...
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...Herbert Khol's purpose for writing was to reflect on the understanding of his student's personal lives, and to show how his culture reflects in comparison to others. His views are portrayed in the literature, where he states "I...know what it is like to face the problem of not-learning and the dissolution of culture" (Paragraph 3, Line 3). Kohl writes for his readers to learn from his previous experiences, and to teach them the lesson of finding middle-ground within our differences, instead of pushing them aside. I agree with Herbert Khol's ideas on learning and "not-learning", finding his thoughts of "...ingenious willful rejection of even the most compassionate and well-designed teaching." (Paragraph 4, Line 2) as an inspirational guide, and an eye-opening depiction for all. For some, the process of learning culture may be very difficult, like it was for Wilfredo, the grandfather of a student in Khol's class. As Wilfredo had his complexities with learning to speak English, many have the same issue with understanding different culture too. Khol continues to move his focus throughout his piece that he was born and raised in New York City, coming from a partially bilingual...
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...Nine Ways How do we help floundering students who lack basic math concepts? Marilyn Burns aul, a 4th grader, was struggling to learn multiplication. Paul’s teacher was concerned that he typically worked very slowly in math and “didn’t get much done.” I agreed to see whether I could figure out the nature of Paul’s difficulty. Here’s how our conversation began: P MARILYN: Can you tell me something you know about multiplication? PAUL: [Thinks, then responds] 6 x 8 is 48. MARILYN: Do you know how much 6 x 9 is? PAUL: I don’t know that one. I didn’t learn it yet. MARILYN: Can you figure it out some way? PAUL: [Sits silently for a moment and then shakes his head.] MARILYN: How did you learn 6 x 8? PAUL: [Brightens and grins] It’s easy—goin’ fishing, got no bait, 6 x 8 is 48. connects to addition. Paul wasn’t the only student in this class who was floundering. Through talking with teachers and drawing on my own teaching experience, I’ve realized that in every class a handful of students are at serious risk of failure in mathematics and aren’t being adequately served by the instruction offered. What should we do for such students? Grappling with Interventions My exchange with Paul reminded me of three issues that are essential to teaching mathematics: I It’s important to help students make connections among mathematical ideas so they do not see these ideas as disconnected facts. (Paul saw each multiplication fact as a separate piece of information to memorize.) I It’s important to...
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