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Education Vocabulary

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    Very unconventional
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Education Vocabulary

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    Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
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  • REFLECTIVE
  • Reflective learners prefer to think about it quietly first.
  • "Let's think it through first" is the reflective learner's response.
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  • prefer working alone.
  • reflective learners
  • A balance of the two is desirable.
  • think of possible questions or applications
  • review what you have read
  • write short summaries of readings or class notes in your own words
  • will enable you to retain the material more effectively
  • INTUITIVE
  • intuitive learners often prefer discovering possibilities and relationships.
  • you gain understanding of material by hearing classmates' explanations and you learn even more when you do the explaining.
  • intuitors may be better at grasping new concepts and are often more comfortable than sensors with abstractions
  • intuitors don't like "plug-and-chug" courses that involve a lot of memorization and routine calculations.
  • If you overemphasize intuition, you may miss important details or make careless mistakes
  • need to be able to function both ways.
  • try to find the connections
  • Take time to read the entire question before you start answering and be sure to check your results
  • VERBAL
  • Verbal learners get more out of words--written and spoken explanations. Everyone learns more when information is presented both visually and verbally.
  • Good learners are capable of processing information presented either visually or verbally.
  • Write summaries or outlines of course material in your own words.
  • intuitors like innovation and dislike repetition.
  • GLOBAL
  • Global learners tend to learn in large jumps, absorbing material almost randomly without seeing connections, and then suddenly "getting it."
  • global learners may be able to solve complex problems quickly or put things together in novel ways once they have grasped the big picture, but they may have difficulty explaining how they did it.
  • What makes you global or not is what happens before the light bulb goes on.
  • strengthen your global thinking skills by relating each new topic you study to things you already know.
  • outline the lecture material for yourself in logical order.
  • you need the big picture of a subject before you can master details
  • get an overview
  • immerse yourself in individual subjects for large blocks
  • Try to relate the subject to things you already know
  • your understanding of how it connects to other topics and disciplines may enable you to apply it in ways that most sequential thinkers would never dream of.
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Education Vocabulary

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    Any strong regional accent.
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  • created the architecture for the Open Library
  • Swartz was a member of the RSS-DEV Working Group that co-authored the "RSS 1.0" specification of RSS
  • founded the online group Demand Progress
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  • In the early days of Reddit, Swartz's Infogami and Reddit merged; the merger agreement made Swartz an equal partner in the merged company.
  • JSTOR's fees limited access to academic work produced at American colleges and universities.
  • Swartz also focused on sociology, civic awareness and activism.
  • against the Stop Online Piracy Act
  • On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by federal authorities in connection with systematic downloading of academic journal articles from JSTOR.[7][8] Swartz opposed JSTOR's practice of compensating publishers, rather than authors, out of the fees it charges for access to articles.
  • In 2010 he joined the Harvard University Center for Ethics.
  • At age 13, he won the ArsDigita Prize, a competition for young people who create "useful, educational, and collaborative" non-commercial websites.
  • By age 14, Swartz was a member of the working group that authored the RSS 1.0 web syndication specification
  • he agitated without cease—or compensation—for the free-culture movement.
  • Around 2006, Swartz acquired the Library of Congress's complete bibliographic dataset: the library charged fees to access this, but as a government document, it was not copyright-protected within the USA. By posting the data in the Open Library, Swartz made it freely available.
  • government-produced documents are not covered by copyright
  • public.resource.org
  • A respected Harvard researcher who also is an Internet folk hero has been arrested in Boston on charges related to computer hacking, which are based on allegations that he downloaded articles that he was entitled to get free.
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Information Learning

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  • trained to perform the day-to-day functions of a library
  • assists librarians in the acquisition, preparation and organization of information
  • classification
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  • the role of the library technician is expanding and evolving
  • Library technicians typically require a certificate, or, ideally, an associate degree in library technology from a community college or other similar institution
  • librarians require a master's degree in library science from an accredited university-based graduate school of library and information science
  • Library technicians will often carry out the practical tasks involved in daily library operation
  • Because the education of the library technician is practical, broad and skills-based, they are job-ready upon graduation; the only training they may require is that which is specific to their particular place of employment.
  • assist library patrons in finding information
  • Duties can vary with the type and size of the library
  • data input
  • cataloguing
  • assist in acquiring print and nonprint materials
  • circulation
  • assisting in the provision of reference services
  • A library technician who supervises or serves as library manager with the advanced training is more properly known as a library associate.
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