"No‚ I want my child to study. I want him to get what I did not get in my childhood. I will give him education even if I have to pay a huge amount of money to the educational institutions" These are some lines which are said by the parents of this modern era. Every parent tries their level best to provide quality education to his ward and to fulfill their dreams they spend a lumpsum amount of money so that their ward is able to study in the best educational institution. Schools‚ coaching centers
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strong advocate for education of the American People. His involvement with this support is best known through his establishment of the University of Virginia in 1819. As part of his work during the late 17070s and early 1780s‚ he revised the laws of Virginia and established a bill that is known as one of his most important works on the subject of education: Bill 79‚ "A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge." As written in the document‚ Jefferson proposed a public education system that was
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ROLE OF MODERN TECHNOLOGIES IN OPEN LEARNING THROUGH DISTANCE EDUCATION * Prof. H.P. Sinha ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract The paper deals with the significance of Modern Technologies in development of open Learning System using Distance Education Concept. Education in considered as foundation stone for development of mankind. This is meant to equalize opportunities for everyone including poor‚ disadvantaged
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computers in education was primarily found in mathematics‚ science and engineering as a mathematical problem-solving tool‚ replacing the slide rule and thus permitting students to deal more directly with problems of a type and size most likely to be encountered in the real world.[6] In 1959‚ at the University of Illinois‚ Donald Bitier began PLATO‚ the first‚ large-scale project for the use of computers in education. The several thousand-terminal system served undergraduate education as well as
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recognizing he could learn as much from them as they could from him. In many ways‚ Whitman helped the American education system along‚ though he would surely still criticize it today. In Whitman’s poems‚ Song of Myself‚ number forty six and forty seven‚ he boldly states many of his radical ideas which continue to be profound insights‚ and have helped many rethink our current education systems. Walt Whitman believed firmly in the idea of hands-on learning and the
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INTERNET AND EDUCATION: virtual classrooms for everyone? A dusty‚ one-room schoolhouse on the edge of a village. An overworked teacher trying to manage a room full of boisterous children. Students sharing schoolbooks that are in perpetual short supply‚ crammed in rows of battered desks. Children worn out after long treks to school‚ stomachs rumbling with hunger. Others who vanish for weeks on end‚ helping their parents with the year-end harvest. Still others who never come back‚ lacking the money
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Think back to a class in elementary school where each student was given a different prompt and each was required to do a presentation in response to that prompt. Did any students stand in front of the class with a picture of the prompt given and say absolutely nothing about it? No. Most students gave a brief history‚ maybe stories about it‚ why it was made the way it was made‚ or even how it pertains to the classroom. Each student was presenting their topic with context to ensure every other student
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The teacher that had the most impact on me was Mark Whitney. Before I came to MiraCosta college‚ I was in Japanese high school which I hated it. I saw some of the teachers are very unhelpful and passionless‚ and they did not care about me since my score was always the low group in the entire student of the same grade. They pretended to care about my‚ but every time I knew it was a lie. Therefore‚ I did not expect that much about the professors when I first came here. However‚ when I started taking
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To begin‚ Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a Hispanic neighborhood. He’s convinced that his students have potential. He adopts unconventional teaching methods. He helped his classroom‚ students which included gang members and no-hopers pass the rigorous Advanced Placement exam in calculus. Jaime Escalante believed that all his students were smart‚ not dumb like all the other staff thought. He knew his students had the potential of passing the Advanced Calculus Exam‚ and he
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The reading process as a whole is a very complex area‚ and is constantly changing‚ but as an elementary school teacher responsible for teaching young children to read‚ it is vital for me to understand the theories behind the reading act itself. The three theories which I feel are the most important‚ and which I feel are intertwined to account for the reading process are subskill theories‚ interactive theories and transactive theories. I believe that all three of these theories have components that
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