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Jamie Eichenbaum

Fear of Authority - Social Anxiety Forum - 1 views

www.socialanxietysupport.com/...fear-of-authority-80300

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    • Jamie Eichenbaum
      Jamie Eichenbaum on 30 Sep 10
       
      I believe this post will aid Jordana and I with our project as it gives us a 1st person look into why authority has so much power? We can see that this man almost went crazy just during a simple encounter with a police officer. This article shows us that we have been taught to respect and fear authority. Thus, I believe this post will help Jordana and I explore deeper into why society allows authority to overpower us.
  • I think about how I lost complete control of myself, and how I wouldn’t have had to deal with the embarrassment of being searched if it weren’t for my anxiety. In this case, my anxiety stemmed from what I guess is a fear of people in authority, which I guess is an aspect of my SA. Anyone else have similar experiences?
    • Jamie Eichenbaum
      Jamie Eichenbaum on 30 Sep 10
       
      I think the author of this post made a point that was interesting. He asks himself why he acted so foolishly during a routine encounter. Thus, asking himself why the authority made him so anxious. This is a perfect example of what Jordana and I are exploring. Why do people act intimidated and make decisions (do things) they don't want to when in the presence of an authoritative figure?
  • Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
     
    This seems to be less credible than the other sites - a blog? It's ok because the others are excellent.
jordana levine

The Shocking Power of Authority - 1 views

authorityrules.com/power

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    • jordana levine
      jordana levine on 30 Sep 10
       
      This webpage is useful because it explains an experiment performed at Yale university that shows the power of authority. We feel a duty to authority and it is for this reason that we are deferential to authority.
  • dhood to respect and trust authority figures (such as scientists in lab coats
    • jordana levine
      jordana levine on 30 Sep 10
       
      This explains one of the major reasons that we respond to authority. It was the way we were brought up. WE were taught to listen to our parents and teachers no matter what, to listen to adults who were at the time superior, to trust police officers, officials, etc. and this has stayed with us as we grew up and it is for these reasons that we have such a blind trust toward authority figure and the reason that we are deferential to authority.
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  • ), and the obedience that comes with it stays with us throughout our lives.
  • ded it’s our deep-seated sense of duty to authority. We’re trained from chil
  • Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
     
    This is interesting but be aware that it is a blog.
Mason Brenhouse

Link between music and academic achievement - 1 views

parkslopemusiclessons.com/...music-and-academic-achievement

music wiki academics sociology project article

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  • ScienceDaily (Feb. 11, 2
  • A new study in the journal Social Science Quarterly reveals that music participation, defined as music lessons taken in or out of school and parents attending concerts with their children, has a positive effect on reading and mathematic achievement in early childhood and adolescence. Additionally, socioeconomic status and ethnicity affect music participation.
  • Music is positively associated with academic achievement, especially during the high school years.
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  • “This has major policy implications for federal, state, and local agencies, as well as knowledge that can help families allocate resources that are most beneficial to children.”
  • Mason Brenhouse on 21 Oct 10
     
    Interesting, this article states that the presence of music in or out of school has a positive effect on reading and mathematics on children. However, it does state that families with higher socioeconomic status. It also states that the government should allocate funds in order to allow people's lives to be enriched by music. 
dunya darwiche

Teenagers - Finding Their Identity | The Naked Soul - 1 views

tobeme.wordpress.com/...enagers-finding-their-identity

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    • dunya darwiche
      dunya darwiche on 30 Sep 10
       
      This is so interesting. Not only for my project but also just reading this he's so right. Im amazed this is written by an adult cause I ususally feel like adults may have lived these teenage years but when they cross to the other side they often forget how hard these years may be.
  • This is a time of wonderful joy, mixed with many bouts of frustration and often anger as they go through this confusing time
  • his transitional time does not come with a instruction book
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  • unfortunately teenagers tend to attempt to emulate those in the public eye whom they view as successful
  • The unfortunate thing about this is that the media tends to glorify and report on those people who are not good role models.
  • Let’s face it, most teenagers do not want to imitate their parents
  • I simply wanted something different
  • my teenage view of success was to not be my parents,
  • I simply wanted to do better than what I viewed my parents life to be.
  • most parents goal too
  • We tend to forget that they are going through an identity crisis, that they are trying to figure out who they are and how they are going to make it in the adult world. What do they want to be, should they go to college, how will they pay for college …
  • Is it any wonder that suicides are higher among teens than any other age group?
  • “All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You’ve got to find it on your own terms” - Harrison Ford (American Actor)
matt kogan

Tween Dating Relationships and Sexuality - Tweens More Sexually Active Than Parents Rea... - 1 views

womensissues.about.com/...TweenDating.htm

dating tween relationships

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  • een sexuality:
  • The survey revealed the following about tween b
  • ehavior and tw
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  • Dating relationships begin much earlier than adults realize. 47% of tweens and 37% of 11 and 12-year olds say they've been in a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. 72% say dating relationships begin by age 14. Nearly one-third of tweens and parents say sexual activity is a part of tween dating relationships. Specifically, the percentage of tweens and parents identified below acknowledge the following acts as part of a dating relationship: Touching and feeling up - 37% of tweens and 31% of parents Oral sex - 27% of tweens and 26% of parents Sexual intercourse - 28% of tweens and 26% of parents Tweens in relationships report sexual activity among their peer group. 47% know a friend or someone their age who has touched and felt up a partner. 31% know a friend or peer who has had oral sex. 33% know a friend or peer who has had sexual intercourse. Parents continue to believe 'it's not my child.' Of the parents who say that sex is part of a tween relationship: 59% know that their child has kissed a boyfriend or girlfriend. 17% know their child has made out with a partner. Only 7% say their child has gone further than kissing or making out. The "Tween and Teen Dating Violence and Abuse Study" was conducted January 2-18, 2008 by TRU (Teenage Research Unlimited) and the survey's findings were released July 8, 2008. Suggested ReadingTween DatingTeen Dating, Sex and RelationshipsRelating to Your Tween Related ArticlesFacts on Tween Dating Abuse and Violence - Statistics on Tweens and Dating ...Kids, Dating and Safety - What Parents Should Know About Kids, Dating and K...Tweens - Understanding Today's TweensSingle Parent Dating - Before You Start Single Parent DatingGrandparents Rights in Oregon - Grandparents Rights by State Linda LowenWomen's Issues GuideSign up for my NewsletterMy BlogMy Forum Advertisement Issues Ads Dating Women Online Dating Dating Tips Dating Chat Rooms Dating Girl
  • Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
     
    You've highlighted too much and not provided a resume.
Patrick Reid

Brain Function and Music: How Does Music Affect The Brain and Learning? - 1 views

www.suite101.com/...rain-function-and-music-a22750

shared by Patrick Reid on 30 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Martin Gardiner, research director at The Music School, theorizes that "learning arts skills forces mental 'stretching' useful to other areas of learning: the maths learning advantage could, for example, reflect the development of mental skills such as ordering, and other elements of thinking on which mathematical learning at this age also depends." [The National Association for Music Education, menc.org, May 23, 1996 issue of Nature]
    • Patrick Reid
      Patrick Reid on 30 Sep 10
       
      This Shows us a theory on how music affects the brain and here it is showing how it can help you with your math for example because it helps mental skills such as ordering and other important elements in math.
    • Patrick Reid
      Patrick Reid on 30 Sep 10
       
      This webpage is useful to my project even though there is not much information there is some very good information in my opinion about the brain and music and school which is perfect for my groups project.
  • Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
     
    Not the best site for credibility.
Mason Brenhouse

Impact of music education on academic achievement - 1 views

www.myscienceteacher.com/...AcdemicAchievement.pdf

sociology wiki music project article

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  • Mason Brenhouse on 30 Sep 10
     
    very interesting thesis on the impacts of music education on academic marks.
Patrick Reid

The effect of music listening on work performance - Psychology of Music - 1 views

pom.sagepub.com/...173.abstract

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  • Data were collected in the participants’ actual work environments over five weeks. Results indicated that state positive affect and quality-of-work were lowest with no music, while time-on-task was longest when music was removed. Narrative responses revealed the value of music listening for positive mood change and enhanced perception on design while working.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
       
      While this site is excellent, it is only the abstract (like a small resume) of a very interesting study. In order to use it, you'd have to subscribe to the journal (costs $$) and read it all. So, you can't use this site.
Daryl Bambic

Student Cheating and Plagiarism or Creativity and Innovation? » Edurati Review - 1 views

eduratireview.com/...m-or-creativity-and-innovation

cheating

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  • Daryl Bambic on 19 Oct 10
     
    What do you think about using the internet for exams?  How would exams change if we allowed students to have access to the internet?
Patrick Reid

The Best Sounds for Getting Work Done - 1 views

lifehacker.com/...t-sounds-for-getting-work-done

shared by Patrick Reid on 30 Sep 10 - Cached
  • The Workplace Doctors site details both sides of the question. In one study, University of Illinois researchers found that listening to music in "all types of work" increased work output 6.3% over a control group. In another study (dissected at MetaFilter), 56 employees working on basic computer tasks were found to be more productive when there was no music playing over the same period tested with music.
  • The most often cited study into the question of music's effect on the mind involves the so-called Mozart effect, which suggests that listening to certain kinds of music—Amadeus Wolfgang's classical works, in particular—impacts and boosts one's spatial-temporal reasoning, or the ability to think out long-term, more abstract solutions to logical problems that arise.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
       
      This is a blogger (that I know and follow). It's really interesting but it's still a blog. Where is your sticky note comment?
Catherine Delisle

Peer Pressure and Teens - 1 views

www.adoptionarticlesdirectory.com/...2866

shared by Catherine Delisle on 06 Oct 10 - Cached
    • Catherine Delisle
      Catherine Delisle on 06 Oct 10
       
      This page could really help Dunya and I in our research because it really helps us see the other side of peer pressure. It explains that their is two different sides of presure: a negative and positive one. Also, it talks about factors that can influence our project.
  • It is important to remember that teenage friends can have a positive influence on your children, you should therefore help them find friends that have similar interests and views as those you are trying to develop in your children, including doing well in school, having respect for others and avoiding drug use, smoking and drinking, etc.
  • How successfully you handle peer pressure depends a great deal on how you feel about yourself and your place in the world. There are certain "risk factors" for peer pressure, personality traits that make you more prone to give in to peer pressure.
    • Catherine Delisle
      Catherine Delisle on 07 Oct 10
       
      This point is really important because it explains how peer pressure can influence different people. If you have a higher confidence, you won't be as influenced by peer pressure than if you have very low self confidence.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
       
      While I appreciate that you are learning about your topic reading this, I don't think this site helpful for the project because it's credibility is questionable. Be ready to defend it.
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  • Peer Pressure is two types; such as positive and negative peer pressure.
    • Catherine Delisle
      Catherine Delisle on 07 Oct 10
       
      This point is also really important because it helps my partner and I to see that there are two different types of pressures: some are negative and some are positive. They can influence someone in two drastically different ways.
  • Gender and age are factors
  • Younger teens are more easily influenced than older teens, with peer pressure peaking in about eighth or ninth grade
  • confidence level, personality and degree of maturity make a difference.
  • The need for acceptance, approval, and belonging is vital during the teen years.
steven bloom

Computer Gaming Effects on Academic Performance - 1 views

www.ehow.com/ects-academic-performance.html

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  • Frequency and Academic Performance" individuals who spend two or more hours playing games on a daily basis score lower in every subject than their non-gaming counterparts. By spending a high percentage of time on video games there is not enough time left to spend in studying for classes. The study found that there was "not a single significant positive correlation between gaming and academic performance."
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
       
      Good article but this site is not the most credible.
  • steven bloom on 06 Oct 10
     
    This webiste tells us that the only positive effect of video games on kids is that it helps with problem solving. According to the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology said that anyoen who spends two hours or more playing video games per day have have a lower grade point average in every subject. This aritcle tells us that playign video games may improve the child's street smarts and ability to solve but not their book smarts.
steven bloom

The Good and Bad Effects of Video Games - 1 views

www.raisesmartkid.com/...-and-bad-effects-of-video.html

shared by steven bloom on 06 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Following instructions                o    Problem solving and logic                 o    Hand-eye coordination, fine motor and spatial skills
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 06 Oct 10
       
      What is the utility of highlight thisÉ
  • Resource management and logistics
  • Multitasking, simultaneous tracking of many shifting variables and managing multiple objectives
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 06 Oct 10
       
      Your highlighting should be carefully chosen and reflect the thesis and main idea of the article, or at least what you want to remember about why this article is important in your research.
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  • Quick thinking, making fast analysis and decisions
  • Strategy and anticipation
  • Developing reading and math skills
  • Perseverance
  • Pattern recognition
  • Estimating skills                o    Inductive reasoning and hypothesis testing
  • Mapping
  • Memory                o    Reasoned judgments               
  • Teamwork and cooperation when played with others
  • Simulation, real world skills
  • Too much video game playing makes your kid socially isolated.  Also, he may spend less time in other activities such as doing homework, reading, sports, and interacting with the family and friends.   Video games do not exercise your kid’s imaginative thinking.  Using imagination may be important in developing creativity.   Some video games teach kids the wrong values.  Violent behavior, vengeance and aggression are rewarded.  Negotiating and other nonviolent solutions are often not options.  Women are often portrayed as weaker characters that are helpless or sexually provocative.    Games can confuse reality and fantasy. Academic achievement may be negatively related to over-all time spent playing video games. Studies have shown that the more time a kid spends playing video games, the poorer is his performance in school.  (Anderson & Dill, 2000; Gentile, Lynch & Walsh, 2004) Video games may also have bad effects on some children’s health, including obesity, video-induced seizures. and postural, muscular and skeletal disorders, such as tendonitis, nerve compression, carpal tunnel syndrome. When playing online, your kid can pick up bad language and behavior from other people, and may make your kid vulnerable to online dangers.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 06 Oct 10
       
      This is better, even though it`s a tad long.
  • steven bloom on 06 Oct 10
     
    This website gives us all the good and bad affects of video gaming for example inproves spatial and hand eye coordination, improves problem solving and logic. All these things that video games do for us may have an explanation on why the averages of the students who play video games our higher or lower. Basically this website helps us make connection between a characteristic such as problem solving and the subject math. This is a reliable website because the information is brought by the raise kids network
  • Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
     
    Same comment as above.
Alex Weinstein

Liar, Liar? How Can You Tell? - 1 views

teenadvice.about.com/...blliarliar2.htm

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  • When people lie, especially when they are lying about something that is important to you, your version of spidey senses start to tingle. You get a gut feeling that all is not right with the other person’s words. This is your first and best sign that you are dealing with a liar. But there are some tell tale body language cues that will add credence to your instincts. If you just have a feeling you’re being deceived keep your guard up, but if you get that feeling AND observe any of the following behaviors rest assured that all is not as it appears.
  • Alex Weinstein on 07 Oct 10
     
    This is very relevant to my project. This helps me understand that there are tricks to being able to tell when a person is lying. Sometimes, in their body language, it becomes very evident that they are lying. For my project, I will need to focus very strongly on this point. As it mentions, you can always find tricks when someone is lying. 
  • Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
     
    The comments for this site are the same as above. You are best off choosing studies and research instead of this kind of site.
steven bloom

Video games help focus on fine detail - 1 views

www.theaustralian.com.au/...story-e6frganf-1111112972567

shared by steven bloom on 06 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Video games help focus on fine detail From: The Australian February 13, 2007 12:00AM Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print Email Share Add to Digg Add to del.icio.us Add to Facebook Add to Kwoff Add to Myspace Add to Newsvine What are these? PLAYING video games that involve high levels of visual action on a daily basis can improve your ability to see fine detail, a study shows. Researchers at the University of Rochester in the US have found that people who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month sharpened their ability to identify letters by about 20 per cent. "Action video game play changes the way our brains process visual information," says Daphne Bavelier, professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the university. "After just 30 hours, players showed a substantial increase in the spatial resolution of their vision, meaning they could see figures like those on an eye chart more clearly, even when other symbols crowded in."
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
       
      Why highlight this?
  • PLAYING video games that involve high levels of visual action on a daily basis can improve your ability to see fine detail, a study shows. Researchers at the University of Rochester in the US have found that people who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month sharpened their ability to identify letters by about 20 per cent. "Action video game play changes the way our brains process visual information," says Daphne Bavelier, professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the university.
  • These games push the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it," she says. "That learning carries over into other activities and possibly everyday life."
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
       
      An interesting article.
  • steven bloom on 06 Oct 10
     
    This website talks about how video games help looking at the fine detail. It states that playing action video games such as halo or call of duty refine your ability to see fine detail. This characteristic is important for doctors or architects. This website is credible becuase it took it's information from the university of Rochester in the United States study.
steven bloom

Video Games, And Academic Performance: Some Good News - 1 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...090324131454.htm

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  • And while the researchers found a strong relationship between video games and lower grade point averages, playing video games did not appear to affect math skills and had a positive relationship with visual-spatial skills. These skills – in which a child learns visually, by thinking in pictures and images – are considered the “training wheels” for performance in science, technology, engineering and math.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
       
      A better site!
  • steven bloom on 06 Oct 10
     
    In this aritcle they did a study where they took 20 middle schools and monitored the children playing video games. They found that when students played video games there grade point average did increase. Although playing video games helped their visual spatial skills
dunya darwiche

CBC News Indepth: Crime: Youth Criminal Justice Act - 1 views

www.cbc.ca/...ycja.html

shared by dunya darwiche on 20 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • April 1, 2003, the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA)
  • emphasize the rehabilitation and re-entry of a young offender into society.
  • "The youth criminal justice system is to prevent crime by addressing the circumstances underlying a young person's offending behaviour, rehabilitate young persons who commit offences and reintegrate them back into society, and ensure that a young person is subject to meaningful consequences for his or her offences, in order to promote the long-term protection of the public."
Frankie Ferreira

Music's Contribution to Academic Success - 1 views

www.childrensmusicworkshop.com/...academicsuccess.html

academics contribution music brain effects

shared by Frankie Ferreira on 25 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Researchers in Hamilton, Ohio, documented that students participating in a string pullout program scored higher on the reading, mathematics and citizenship portions of the Ohio Proficiency Test (OPT), than their non-music peers.
  • This study paired string and non-music students based on their verbal Cognitive Abilities Test (COGAT). Four groups of string students were released two times a week for instruction. Two of those four groups scored significantly higher on the reading and mathematics portion of the OPT than their non-music peers. Additionally, 68% of string students scored at grade level or higher on all four sections of the test compared to 58% of the non-music students. For more information (Michael D. Wallick, Ohio City Schools)
  • SAT scores of students who took part in music instruction surpassed students with no music training. Data collected from students taking the SAT, indicated that students taking music and arts averaged scores that were higher than non music students by 60 points on the verbal section and 43 points on the math section.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 31 Oct 10
       
      Much better. Revised Oct 31.
  • Frankie Ferreira on 25 Oct 10
     
    This is a website about children in school learning to play music. They want to show us how being knowledgable in music affects our school grades. They use recent studies to prove that this is true. Musical prowess equals academic prowess.
Daryl Bambic

Population growth explained with IKEA boxes - Gapminder.org - 1 views

www.gapminder.org/...owth-explained-with-ikea-boxes

population growth

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  • Daryl Bambic on 04 Sep 10
     
    Child survival rates is the new green.  The only way to stop population growth at 9 billion is to make sure that children everywhere have a basic level of education so they, and their countries, may enter the new age.  Hans Rolling explains this beautifully with Ikea boxes.  
olivia amiel

the powerful impact of sexting - 1 views

nortonbooks.typepad.com/...een-sexters-sex-offenders.html

shared by olivia amiel on 03 Sep 10 - Cached
  • olivia amiel on 03 Sep 10
     
    this is about how sexting can affect teens... also a mini blog regarding how people see this as a social influence
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