Write a 2 pages paper on cognitive development: information processing. How important is “rote/drill” in teaching? How important is discovery -based teaching/learning important over direct teaching?

Rote/drill in teaching is simply defined as making the students to memorize the information by mere repetition. Most of the teachers in the today’s world employ this technique without even realizing the fact that they indeed are employing this technique. The biggest examples of rote learning are the alphabets, mathematical tables and statistical formulas. Rote/drill way of teaching indeed plays an important role in the today’s learning climate. It is the most easiest and efficient way to instill knowledge in students. It forms a solid foundation and base within students on which one can build intellectual superstructures. There is no way to learn arithmetic facts other than rote learning. It is also important in learning to read, for example helps read an alphabetic writing system to produce a phonetic reflex. Most of the time, rote/drill learning is used by teachers to make students learn difficult poems, drama scripts, music lyrics and symbols. Thus, it may be considered as an ancient technique, it is still prevalent in the today’s education system (Blumenfeld 34).

Discovery learning. an instructional and student driven model, provides an active and hands-on learning opportunity for students as compared to direct learning. teacher based, doesn’t involves students to a larger extent and is already formulated according to the teacher’s will. On the other hand, in discover learning, the students take on an active role to create, generate and integrate knowledge. This type of learning further aids students to learn at their own pace. Thirdly, students are made to learn new knowledge by affiliating scenarios with their past experiences ( Castronova 2).

2. What are the common learning disabilities that you find in your classrooms? Do you think culture has a role in terms of identifying and labeling disabilities?

Every now and then, we hear about students suffering from learning problems/disabilities in their respective classrooms. Some of the common learning disabilities are as follows. Dyslexia is defined as difficulty in reading, dyscalculia relates to difficulty with doing math’s, dysgraphia is recognized as students facing difficulty with writing, dyspraxia relates to difficulty with fine motor skills of students, aphasia is known as difficulty with language, auditory processing disorder is defined as problems in hearing differences between sounds and visual processing disorder relates to difficulty in interpreting visual information. All these are some of the renowned learning disabilities students’ face in their classrooms (Kemp, Smith and Segal 4).

Culture indeed has an effective role in terms of identifying and labeling disabilities. It greatly depends upon the society’s culture how they view different kinds of disabilities. They are various stereotype societies whose culture consider LD students as stupid and retard which actually is not the case. The society’s culture should inculcate “cure and relief” for all the people having disabilities rather than treating them as mentally retarded students. Culture can make or break students having learning disabilities so it should play a positive role instead of de-motivating such students (Bakken, Obiakor and Rotatori 50).

Works Cited Page

Bakken, J. P., Obiakor, F. E., and Rotator, A. F. “Learning Disabilities: Identification, Assessment and Instruction of Students with LD.” Emerald Group Publishing. 2013: 1-185. Web. 31ST March, 2014.

Blumenfeld, S. “The importance of Rote Learning.” Homeschool World. 2000: 34. Web. 31ST March, 2014.

Castronova, J. A. “Discovery Learning for the 21st Century: What is it and how does it compare to traditional learning in effectiveness in the 21st Century.” Voltasta.edu. 2014: 1-40. Web. 31ST March, 2014.

Kemp, G., Smith, M. and Segal, J. “Learning Disabilities in Childern.” Helpguide. 2012: 1-7. Web. 31ST March, 2014.

Provide a 1 page analysis while answering the following question: W 3: British and Spanish Rule. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. W 3: British and Spanish Rule – Introduction to Florida History 2 October 21 Jackson was responsible for many Indian massacres and raids during that time in Florida. Though his leadership style was considered strong his actions were somewhat brutish in accomplishing his goals. Tactics that were used and the outcome of the war caused the deaths of more than 1500 soldiers and an undetermined amount of civilians (The Seminole Wars, 2012).

Osceola at a planned meeting to discuss the situation was actually captured and imprisoned when he requested peace talks. The harsh treaty terms forced on the Moskoki tribes by Jackson sent them seeking refuge in the thousand in Florida, later being the Seminole tribe. Jackson burned entire Indian towns, hanged one Indian by neck along with two Englishmen and also captured many Africans. Seminoles were actually tracked and hunted with bloodhounds and forced onto ships that would take them to New Orleans. Africans were sent to Arkansas and other lands and territories which were inhospitable to them. This was considered guerilla warfare and the likes of which were not used again until Vietnam.

2. Though Jackson was given the authorization to act in Florida by Monroe it was in such a way that Monroe did not want to appear to be responsible for the actions of Jackson. Calhoun, Crawford and Clay were annoyed and Calhoun who was Secretary of war was especially irate over the President’s and Jackson’s communication, attempting to bypass them. Jackson was required to appear before Congress to defend many of his actions and tactics used(University of Groningen, 2012).

References

University of Groningen. (2012). Andrew Jackson 1767-1845 A brief biography. Eviction of Indians and Taking of Florida. Retrieved October 21, 2012, from http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/biographies/andrew-jackson/eviction-of-indians-and-taking-of-florida.php

The Seminole Wars. Retrieved October 21, 2012, from http://www.flheritage.com/facts/history/seminole/wars.

Write 5 pages with APA style on Unplugging Philco. All that happened after this lead to the establishment of a strict order and control in the state in order to save the citizens from the threat of terrorism. The purpose of strict measures, total control, and bureaucracy seems reasonable: protection of common people from Australians but the results it gave turned out to be unpredictable: general paranoia and subsequent madness. Every little accident, as well as disease and crime, are explained by the cunning efforts of terrorists. The main hero dares to get out of his zone of comfort by unplugging himself from governmental surveillance and gets into the secret and extremely weird society of Unpluggers, people united by the idea of freedom and quiet life. The idea of Knipfel is not new. It looks like numerous conspiracy theorists and dystopian writers try to warn the population of the world about the consequences of the choices we make starting from growing consumerism, increasing powers of corporations and government manipulation. However, the author makes readers think about the price we pay for ignoring these tendencies and thus accepting them in our everyday life. So with this satirical novel “Unplugging Philco” Knipfel tries to show people how even the most unnoticeable attempt of understanding the reality and changing it can prevent a huge catastrophe.

Knipfel had a rather serious challenge to accomplish as a writer- to create the text that would become a new dystopia not parodying and not copying the ideas of great writers and he managed to do just concentrating on the époque. In the center of every dystopia, there is some decline in society involving either undesirable totalitarian regime, loss of humanity or excessive robotization and technological development. “Unplugging Philco” combines all these characteristic features but the most frightening is that it is depicting not-so-distant reality, it is possible to even say, tomorrow reality of civilization.&nbsp.

Complete 5 pages APA formatted article: Different Areas of Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Mathematics. Even non-philosophers tend to think of truth as a set of objective facts existing outside of the mind. But what this means is actually the subject of a very extensive debate. A part of this debate is whether there are different kinds of truth that reflect different areas of philosophy: aesthetics, ethics, and mathematics. The different kinds of truths for these philosophical fields may occur because these different areas say fundamentally different things. It seems that truth is nothing more than something’s consistency with the system in which it is a part. the sentences “Murder is bad” and “This formula is right” are equally true in the case that the action of murder is inconsistent with a moral system or that a formula contradicts the rules of mathematics.

With this definition of truth, that truth of anything is a matter of its coherence to the system, the truth of any sentence must be a matter of the sentence’s consistency to an entire moral, aesthetic, or mathematical system. This means we must see mathematics as a system in which there are no questions that cannot be answered. In this system, a mathematical theory can be true or false depending on whether its premises or its conclusion, jive with the established truths already in the system. In the mathematical system, since it is a complete system, one can make true or false statements. Since mathematics makes up a complete system, one should anticipate any true sentence or statement about mathematics to fit somewhere in the complete system and not deny other aspects of the complete system.

If truth is a sentence’s consistency with other parts of a system, one can define “consistency” to be simply the harmony between the different parts in the system. As a system of numbers, formulas, and equations, mathematics should be completely internally consistent so that it can contain truths at all. If the entire system of mathematics contained unresolved contradictions, the concept of it being a “complete” system would be lost. To illustrate, the quadratic equation in mathematics is a better expression of parabolas in graphs than, say, a Gaussian function. Substituting the quadratic equation with a Gaussian function would fundamentally change the rules of mathematic, and all of the mathematics would need either to be removed or modified to reflect the change.

Provide a 5 pages analysis while answering the following question: From Personal to Political. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. I was held back but soon realized that it was a personal attack – an attempt to lower my concept of self. To that extent, my salary was held below that of others with similar experience and qualifications. I was not allowed any training which would allow me to improve my skills. However, when it became clear that I was able to perform without training from my employer, I was only allowed to go on jobs that were considered very difficult and not properly planned. These were jobs that had never been completed because of the difficulty experienced over the years in obtaining necessary information. Despite the problems encountered those jobs were signed off as completed. It, therefore, meant that my work was more difficult because of unresolved issues that would obviously keep coming to the fore.

It is important to note that at no point in my job was I ever told by my superiors that they had any problem with my work. However, there was a point when there were obvious signs that some persons were bent on discrediting my ability. It led to the embarrassment of a senior staff who was misled into believing that my work was really not up to standard. To her surprise, it was way above standard. She lamented and wondered what it is that someone could have done to warrant the obviously blatant hostilities meted out towards me.&nbsp.

What should have been professionals, people of honesty and integrity were proving themselves to be otherwise. The gullible were led to believe that I was other than required as a professional. However, there were many who were part of this web of deception and whose sole aim was to tarnish my reputation as a person of ability and character. a professional who stood by the guidelines in the code of professional ethics. However, I was strong. I held onto the virtues that my parents extolled. This made them fight even harder.