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EBSCOhost: Ditch the calculators - 0 views

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    Many teachers as well as students insist, ``Why shouldn't we use calculators? They'll always be around, and we'll never do long division in real life.'' This may be true. It's also true of most math. Not many of us need to figure the circumference of a circle or factor a quadratic equation for any practical reason. But that's not the sole purpose of teaching math. We teach it for thinking and discipline, both of which expand the mind and increase the student's ability to function as a contributing individual in society: the ultimate goals of education.
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Letters: To improve math skills, ban calculators in class - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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    What is not a waste is ensuring that students comprehend and can use automatically the basics of math so that when their brains are ready for algebra, geometry and calculus, the ability to understand is implanted and ready to go. Judi Buenaflor; Allentown, Pa
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EBSCOhost: Why Don't We Teach the Telephone Book? - 0 views

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    don't get it! Every fall the new telephone book arrives, filled with lots of informa- tion and with loads of new numbers, so why don't we design a class that covers this material? Nowhere do we teach this infor- mation. Why don't we expect folks to study the telephone book and memorize the numbers? Grudgingly, I am forced to admit that no real justification for memo- rizing telephone numbers exists, as tempt- ing as it might be for me to teach this course
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EBSCOhost: Implementation Of Mathematics In Computer Graphics: The Future. - 0 views

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    "The successful outcome of any educational program is highly dependent on how the students learn and how effectively they can function at the workplace after completion of their study."
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Western Music History - Wikibooks, open books for an open world - 0 views

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      Although my course consists of Classical to the Contemporary periods, the per-requisite course would cover the Medieval and Baroque Periods.
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Western Music History - 0 views

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  • We then have expansions of range and complexity as we move into the Baroque era. The Classical era gives us the emotional power associated with such composers as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Romanticism then transforms the rigid styles and forms of the Classical era into more individualistic stylizations. Tonality was at its peak during this period, then Impressionist music paved the way to the use of extreme dissonances in the music of the Modern era.
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      Great resource that my students could use as a suppliment to course material as a study guide. This online resource highlights not only composers, but classical works and terms specific to music of the time periods.
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    This is an online wikibook that may serve as a good resource for the students that will be enrolled into my class. My current course, which is part 2 of 2, covers music from the Baroque to 20th Centuries. Students in my class can use this resource for both part 1, and part 2 of my class as it covers music from Medieval times to the present. It covers terms, vocabulary, compositions and composers. I believe that my students and I could use this as a reference point to an overview of each musical period.
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Award-Winning Tools, Tips and Techniques for Online Instruction - 0 views

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    In the video Award-Winning Tools, Tips and Techniques for Online Instruction, Dr. Shea states that a good learning environment is "learner-centered, knowledge-centered, assessment-centered, and community-centered".
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Asynchronous vs synchronous learning environments - 0 views

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    "Students in both asynchronous and synchronous settings performed well. However, students taught using asynchronous videotaped lectures had lower satisfaction with the method of content delivery, and preferred live interactive sessions or a mix of interactive sessions and asynchronous videos over delivery of content using the synchronous or asynchronous method alone."
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Going the Distance in Online Education - 0 views

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