Over the last few years, "adaptive learning" technologies have gotten validation from mainsteam education publishing companies like McGraw-Hill Education and Pearson Education, as Pearson began to integrate new adaptive learning softwares from Knewton into their own software and McGraw-Hill purchased ALEKS Corporation. Though both companies had online textbooks already in existence, the move to embrace adaptive learning technology reflects an effort to create more interactive, more...
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My name is Ashley and I'm a junior at Bryn Mawr. I'm a sociology major and an education minor, my goal is - and has been for as long as I can remember - to teach at the elementary level. I adore kids and love working with them. Currently I work at a pre-school and have had various field placements throughout Philadelphia elementary schools, last semester having worked with 5th graders. I'm also a community fellow for the PhillyGoes2College initiative being run out of the mayor's...
In the spring of my freshman year, I found out that I’d received a grant from Haverford’s Center for Peace and Global Citizenship to travel to Indonesia with two Haverford anthropology professors and would have the opportunity to do independent research. I knew little about Indonesian politics, except for the research I’d done as part of my application. The two professors organizing the trip were finishing a book together on the 1965 political massacres in Indonesia, when up to a...
After first reading Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild," my immediate conclusion was that the egg-implanting Tlic were evil and monstrous, and the Terran, who seemed to be human-like, were helpless and should be pitied. After our discussion in class about this short story, I realized that the relationship between the Tlic and the Terran is much more symbiotic than it is parasitic (after all, the Terran were referred to as "hosts"). It's obvious that the Tlic need the Terran to host their...
In a world of crowdsourcing and community-based expertise, it's easy to access reviews on everything from products, to services, to restaurants. As the Chronicle of Higher Education describes it, potential users looking to evaluate education technology now have a site of their own: Software PhD, a...
A recent survey has reported that 64% of teens have tried illicit drugs by the age of 18 (1). Some of these kids will develop a profoundly devastating drug addiction while others will not. This phenomenon has lead researchers to ask why. Why are some individuals, who experiment with drugs, more susceptible to drug addiction while others do not? By addressing this question, researchers hope to develop better preventative measures as well as better treatment for drug dependent individuals....
The Language Spiral
How Society Evolved Language
Claire Ceriani
Spring, 2010
Senior Thesis
Adviser: Dr. Paul Grobstein
Bryn Mawr College
Table of Contents
I. Introduction
II. The Neurological Basis of Language
III. Examining Social Evolution...
Biology 202
2004 First Web Paper
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I have become Comfortably Numb: Depression and Perceptions of the Self
Chelsea Phillips
"Without emotion, man would be nothing
but a biological computer. Love, joy,
sorrow, fear, apprehension, anger,
satisfaction, and discontent provide
the meaning of human...
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Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities has 50 remote-ready activities, which work for either your classroom or remote teaching.
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