...Research Essay Often, graduation requirements are in conflict with students’ elective interests. As a result, many students graduate without the opportunity to take classes that match their interests or career goals. One solution might be to allow students to take some classes entirely online, but there are benefits and problems associated with online coursework. High school students, in addition to their daily course schedule, should be able to earn credit for some classes entirely online because it increases intrigue in learning and school, increases academic prosperity, and faculty won’t lose their jobs. Earning credit for classes online increases intrigue for learning and school. Online education is increasing in demand, classes are giving...
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...prominent reasons that college has changed so vastly is due to the advancement of technology. Most college students either have a smartphone or access to Internet. The Internet is an electronic communications network that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities around the world. The creation of the Internet has changed Delbanco’s viewpoint completely. Delbanco believes that there is no true discussion or argument a student can have with each other and also takes away the experience of interpersonal communication with one another. All college students, however, need to have an understanding of how the Internet works due to the advanced world in which we live in today. Technology has played such an important role in colleges and indeed changes the nature of college. It is evident that technology, specifically the Internet, is more beneficial to the idea of the proper purpose of college, which is ultimately to attain an earnest job. Kadel/Marfatia 2 In modern classrooms, students are not the only ones who use Internet; professors also rely on it too. For example, most professors post homework and class lectures online for students to access if they were absent in class. None of this was possible back in the WWII era or the pre-Internet days. College simply is not the same place with the same ideals it had in the past. Students just can’t expect go to college to get an education; they need to specialize and develop various...
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...much more critical and the content expected was at a much higher level than ever before. However, all of the challenges I faced in this class proved to beneficial to me as I did end up getting a better grade with each paper. This class brought me many great experiences and taught me countless lessons, some that will last a lifetime. One of most valuable lessons this class taught me was how to manage my time more effectively. I suffer from a bad case of procrastination, but the amount of time allotted for each of these essays didn’t give me time to do much procrastinating. I became much better at just writing instead of sitting and thinking what I should say. Then after I wrote my essay I went back and edited the content of my paper to bring it up to college level writing. I also found paper rater to be a big help with this because it helped to transform my high school level writing into something much more mature through the vocab tool it provides. All of these factors helped me to overcome my second nature of putting things off and I even have started...
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...Advanced Research Writing Do Students Lose More than They Gain in Online Writing Classes The article, Do Students Lose More than They Gain in Online Writing Classes, does not contain any valid points that there are more benefits from a face to face classroom environment or that students in an online writing class lose benefits from the lack of physical interactions. The authors examples used in this article do not provide proof that online writing classes are not adequate for learning or that face-to-face classes are more beneficial. The author’s opinion in this article is that students taking online writing classes do not get the same benefits as the students taking a traditional writing class in a classroom. The author states on several occasions throughout the article that students in face-to-face classrooms benefit from working in groups and interacting with peers. The article list different obstacles that online students face during the course that affect the amount of learning that they gain from the course overall. The author’s argument does not validate that students lose more than they gain, in my opinion with any of the reasons listed in this article. The reasons that are used in this article,” technological impediments, time constraints, attitudes toward education”, do not provide any proof that online writing classes are not adequate for learning. I do not share the same point of view of the author of this article. The reasons listed to me are...
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...Aly Graves James Reed English 1301 2 October 2015 Beneficial Millions of people around the world are sitting in college classes right now preparing for what is to come when they graduate. They, and you and I, will have to get a job and then enter the workforce with many other people who rely on each other to accomplish their jobs that are to be done. This is when we will appreciate those core classes that the college made us take. By taking the required core classes in college, you pay for your degree while getting extra education that can help you in the future. You can figure out if you have different interests before paying for a complete degree. Also, core classes can help you to understand and achieve more in your daily college classes to get your degree. Every day you have to use the skills of talking to people, and sometimes you even have to write to people. Having a job, you have to communicate with your co-workers, your boss, and maybe even outside sources. For example, if you were working on a construction site and you had to give instructions to your co-workers, you would want to be very informative and descriptive with what you needed them to do, or whatever you were supposed to build could come out completely wrong. Core classes in college such as speech and English can help you greatly in this department just as Sara Rajan talks about in her discussion over the core courses that can help you throughout life: For instance, public speaking courses offered at Stanford...
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...was challenging in a way that is preparing me greatly for future english classes at Iowa State. New skills were introduced to me, making it easy to be proud of myself for the work I put in, ending with grades that reflected this effort. My overall knowledge on the active writing process, revision stages and analytical skills has increased immensely, allowing myself to feel greatly prepared for the many future classes that will benefit from my learning. Through the many course outcomes of this class, I have been able to improve my overall writing skills. Right away it was clear how...
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...appreciated. Not being able to use technology in high school was always an annoyance of mine. I’d always think about how there’s technology that would be useful to a student during school. Who wouldn’t love to have Wikipedia and a spell checker handy at all times? During my high school career, I would always get in trouble for using my phone as a source to look up a word definition on an app. I would hate it very much, only because I would only be looking for knowledge and wasn’t that what school was about? Looking for knowledge and learning ways to use that knowledge. Anyways, I graduated high school and fortunately I was able to go to college. Many questions came to mind about how college was going to be. Would it be better than high school, or would it be just as bad? Coming into college I discovered something totally opposite from my prediction about it. It was probably one of the happiest days of my life coming into college and realizing that technology could be used in classes! I have been doing research for the past 2-3 weeks to figure out if laptops help improve students learning in their educational career in order to find a partially accurate answer. However, problems with this are that teachers say that students tend to go on laptops and forget about class. This is sometimes true but David Silvernail, in his book T.H.E Journal, Volume 35, Issue 7 says that “more than 80 percent of teachers say the laptops have made them better able to diversify and individualize their curriculum...
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...Chelsie Rangeloff Sara Tangdall English Comp II 30 April 2014 Gap Year: The Beneficial Alternative “I thought it would be exciting to go there, and of course it was.” Alexander Sullivan was accepted into Columbia University, but instead of transitioning into the university out-right he asked to differ enrollment. Alexander, instead, decided to travel to China where he studied Mandarin, and after a while found a job as a research assistant at the Newsweek Beijing bureau and at Voice of America radio news. (Hulstrand 52). A gap year as explained by Holly Bull, the founder and president of the Center for Interim Programs (CIP), one of the first and longest running providers of gap year programs in the country, is “a period of time for students to creatively step away from the lock-step path of high school to college, to graduate school, or job” (77). Enrolling in college immediately after high school graduation is not always the right decision for seniors that are lacking motivation and unsure what to academically pursue in post secondary education. Acknowledging that not every high school senior has to continue their education without delay after high school is a concept that advisors as well as parents need to understand. They should provide possibilities for those students whom lack motivation to continue their educational paths immediately after graduation. Many high school seniors feel pressured to start college immediately after graduating because sending in college...
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...My topic of interest is single-sex education schools and how it compares to coeducational schools. I am interested in this topic because I went to an all girl high school , so I have first hand experience. When I was in the eighth grade (co-educational, private catholic school) we were allowed to apply to three other catholic high school after taking an examination. I applied to Cathedral High School because the way they presented it was very good. It had a great science program, and internships at law offices, business companies and with doctors. This was the factor that attracted me most to the school meanwhile the other schools that were coeducational and offered similar programs were very large so that would mean less placement opportunities for students. I went to the school and regret nothing academically. I feel that I would of probably gotten the same education and to be honest perhaps it would have been better because most boy schools, and co-educational schools get better funding. I had a great time in high school, I met some very great people, I had some great teachers, and learned a great deal. It was rather easy though to hide from the realities of life. In the real world there are men and women. When you go off to college you will need to deal with guys, unless you go to a single-sex college, and there are not that many of them to begin with. Even though there are guys outside of the single-gender school environment, it is harder to interact with the opposite...
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...that students participate in outside of the mandatory educational curriculum. Students can participate in extracurricular activities at any age. These activities can be affiliated with the school or be outside of school. Extracurricular activities may include sports teams, special-interest clubs, theater, music, art, work, and volunteering in community service fields. Extracurricular activities are an important topic in today’s society due to colleges and graduate programs looking for ever increasing involvement of students outside of classes. It is important to know how participating in extracurricular activities can increase overall success for individuals. It is also important to discuss if the cost of extracurricular activities are worth the consequences they bring or if the money would be better spent on direct learning. This research paper will focus on students in middle school and high school, and the articles chosen are able to show how extracurricular activities correlate to grades, motivation, and overall success of the student. The article Extracurricular Participation and Academic Outcomes: Testing the Over-Scheduling Hypothesis by Jennifer Fredricks (2011) showed that 10th graders with extracurricular activities exhibited positive effects from them. Students received the greatest improvement in grades from zero to five hours. Between five and fourteen hours the rate of improvement for students’ grades increase at a decreasing rate. However, when students participated...
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...Technology in Education: Beneficial or damaging? When you hear the words technology in the classroom or technology in education, what do you think it means? Can you picture students taking a virtual field trip to the Smithsonian from England? Do you envision classrooms filled with laptops for every student? What about students sitting in class reading books on e-readers? In the last couple of decades, technology in the classroom has come a long way from the blackboard, mobile TV carts, or the overhead projector. Some proponents to this new era of technology think it is beneficial while others oppose the advances it has made in education. However, teachers’ stance on technology is mixed. A great example of the division they have toward educational technology, is expressed by Ian Quillen in his article Can Technology Replace Teachers? Some feel technology is a great learning tool since today’s student is a technology junkie and learns better through the use of electronics, while others probably wish it was never developed. Due to budget cuts, teachers in the Eagle County, Colorado school district are being replaced by distance learning courses or videoconferencing. (Quillen, 2012). Those opposing this change feel it will not be as meaningful or as rich as face to face instruction. They feel online courses don’t compare to the discussion students can have with their teacher and peers and the opportunity to ask questions and hear the opinion of others is lost. This...
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...The general public are, of course, more than welcome in job-searching library programs; it is reported that those who drop out of high school are not eligible for 90% of jobs and commit 75% of the crimes in the United States. Some programs which may help job-seeking patrons are computer classes, resume building workshops, and on-sight interview programs. Many libraries, such as the Woodridge Public Library, host monthly job clubs. While a club can differ from group to group, the key concept is sharing job leads with fellow club members. Some clubs offer interview tips and style tricks which can help a club member land their dream job with...
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...Jennifer is a senior at Purdue. Her major is Speech, Language, and Hearing Science and her email is Hwang56@purdue.edu. Jennifer stated that she decided her major by observing others and through the exploratory studies program. She loves how the program helped her to find a major by providing speakers and by helping her to understand her personality. Classes for her were very large lecture halls and medium sized labs of roughly thirty people. She preferred the smaller classes because they gave her more hands on opportunities and one-on-one time. Her favorite class was Intro to Audiology. In this class, she learned the basic testings of audiology. She enjoyed this class the most because it provided her with a lot of hands on activities which helped her learn and grasp the topics. The hardest class to her was Anatomy. The concepts were extremely hard to grasp and they were very hard to grasp due to being extremely detailed. She stated the class was also hard because she had to memorize a vast number of vocabulary words and processes that the body carried out. Skills that are needed for this major are things like interpersonal skills to be able to connect with individuals, dedication, counselling skills to help understand individuals, and the ability to get involved. If someone does not want to participate in activities or is an introvert, this major may not be for them because they have to work with people. Jennifer is planning to go to graduate school after she graduates from Purdue...
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...term safety and security for yourself and your loved ones. It is important to remember that this experience is only what you make of it, and just the beginning of a long list of what is needed to become a responsibly armed citizen. The first things to consider when obtaining a pistol permit are the requirements. Go down to your local police department or resident state trooper and pick up an application. They may redirect you to the town or city hall, but once you have the application, read through the requirements carefully. Specific details, including costs and fees, can vary from town to town so knowing the details in advance will make your application process smoother. If you believe you are eligible, and can handle the costs involved, the next step is to look for an approved training class. Selecting a class is one of the most important and difficult decisions to make, and there are a number of considerations involved. Most states require a class or other form of training in order to obtain a permit. Approved classes consist of a classroom and a live fire portion and are primarily offered by instructors certified by the National Rifle Association (NRA). A simple internet search will yield a number of options, including the websites of individuals and businesses. The NRA also offers a website (www.nrainstructors.org) that lists NRA approved classes. The Instructor NRA instructors are plentiful in most areas, although the quality of their courses varies greatly. It...
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...seems to be rising more and more each year. Most students are more than likely to work while in college. Students attending college part-time has increased more than 10 percent within the last 30 years. Most students who are attending college have to get a job to support themselves along the way. Many of them believe that if they have a job while in college, they will have an even better job once they graduate and receive their bachelors or even master’s degree. Students that are attending college while working a part-time job like to think of their selves as young adults. They are trying to do everything they can to pay the bills and get themselves back and forth to school and work. Students who attend a community college tend to work more hours per week than students who attend a University. Most part-time students only make minimum wage due to the fact that most of their time is being occupied by going to class and studying. It is proven that “effects of working while in college varies by the type of job held and its relation to the academic environment”. (Working in college, 8) Part-time student employment has many advantages. It is a fact that students that are in class more than they are at work have higher GPAs than those who work more than they are in class. Professors believe that students who work part-time are have more performance than those who work full-time. Full-time employment can “impair student performance”. (Learning and Earning, 18) The more you work while attending...
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