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Traditional or technology: A new twist to learning mathematics
Get PDFTechnology is now heavily being used in the classrooms of many schools and they are now finding their way into the lessons plans of many educators. My research manuscript examines the following question, “Integrating technology in Mathematics allows students to have many engaging virtual experiences. But can this lead to students preferring the virtual experience than the authentic hands on (live) experience?” I used Google forms to create a survey and gather information about my topic. I received many mixed responses regarding my topic in study. Overall the participants in my survey believed that technology can have a positive role in a student\u27s learning if used appropriately, and that as educators it is important that we find a balance between using technology and traditional methods in our teaching. This research project has helped me identify as a teacher what methods I would like to use and this assignment has given me an opportunity to reflect back on my teaching philosophy
Trans-Atlantic Connection: The Link Between American and Nazi Eugenics
Get PDFThis essay details some of the intellectual and financial links that were present between the eugenics movement found in the United States and the movement in Germany
Les aventures d’une traductrice dans le Yiddishland à l’ère postvernaculaire
Get PDFÀ l’« ère postvernaculaire » de la langue et de la culture yiddish (Shandler), période de renouveau qui se définit par une forte croissance d’études académiques et productions culturelles et artistiques sur le yiddish en Occident, traduire cette langue pose des défis particuliers. Si la traduction assure ici la transmission d’une langue et d’une culture, elle implique aussi un travail de deuil qui s’ajoute à celui qu’identifiait déjà Paul Ricœur. De plus, en Amérique francophone, l’absence d’écoles et de tradition dans la traduction du yiddish vers le français place le traducteur dans une situation ambiguë : d’un côté, peut-il se fier aux traditions américaines, essentiellement tournées vers l’anglais? De l’autre, doit-il se fier à la tradition française pour traduire un yiddish américain? Dans ce contexte, où la traduction du yiddish s’érige « en creux », comment le traducteur perçoit-il son travail? En me basant sur l’anthologie Voix yiddish de Montréal que j’ai dirigée et dans laquelle je signe une vingtaine de traductions, j’aborderai les aventures d’une traductrice qui navigue entre le Yiddishland et l’Amérique, le passé et le présent, tout en abordant la réception critique positive de cet ouvrage dans les milieux littéraires francophone et anglophone
Creativity inspires exploration
Get PDFIn today’s society there is a growing problem around students and their hatred towards math. This research explored the various ways of how to make the math classroom a creative and engaging place for students. For this research, the guiding question was “How can teachers use technology in a creative enough way to make students more interested in the subject of mathematics?” The final findings for this research were slightly different than expected. When conducting the research for this project it was done through a Google Forms survey and through an interview with an expert (see Appendix A). Many of the people who responded to the survey had not experienced technology when studying math before. The survey results regarding the question if teachers should use more technology when teaching math was mainly positive. This research project will help me in my future math classroom to foster a love for math. Too many children develop a great hatred toward the subject of math and I would like to help contribute to the change of this growing problem and this research will help guide me
BSUJ artwork for Part 1 \u27Self-awareness and Well-being\u27, 2(1), 2015
No full textHealthy self-awareness, or knowing oneself in a realistic manner, is related to higher levels of well-being than unhealthy self-awareness. Read more in the following section
BSUJ special issue (psychology of self and others) photography: \u27Father\u27
No full text“Loving father to 5 children came from a poor family and worked construction jobs away from home. RIP and know that you are loved and respected.” --Bruce Hoffman, 201
“Why, He Formed Me That Way”: Patriarchy, Pedagogy, Capitalism, and (False) Consciousness in Charles Dickens’ Hard Times.
Get PDFThrough the use of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress, and Erich Fromm’s Marx’s Concept of Man, amongst other works, this analysis will attempt to analyze the subject/object, public/private, and the masculine/feminine dichotomies that arise in nineteenth-century England. Using Charles Dickens’ Hard Times as a basis for this discourse analysis, I will explore the following: Patriarchy and capitalism as interconnected systems of domination that (re)produce and purposefully instill Marx’s concept of false consciousness and alienation in an attempt to train, as Victorian economist Andrew Ure explains in his Philosophy of Manufactures, “human beings to renounce their desultory habits of work and to identity themselves with the unvarying regulatory of the complex automaton” (Ure 15). Works CitedUre, Andrew. The Philosophy of Manufactures; Or, An Exposition of the Scientific, Moral, and Commercial Economy of the Factory System of Great Britain. London: C. Knight, 1835. Google Books. Google, 28 June 2007. Web. 2 Apr. 2015
Moral Panics and Sexuality Discourse: The Oppression of Chinese Male Immigrants in Canada, 1900-1950.
Get PDFRacial hierarchy in Canada between 1900 and 1950 shaped the way immigrant “others” were portrayed in White-Anglophone Canadian discourse. Crimes involving ethnic minorities were explained in racial and cultural terms that fed stereotypes and incited fears that served to marginalize and oppress minority groups, particularly people of colour. Chinese men in particular were targets of a racial and sexual othering that resulted in the distrust and oppression of this group. Moral and sexual threats posed by Chinese immigrants were part of an overarching fear of Chinese influence on white Canada known as the “Yellow Peril.” The myth of the Yellow Peril interwove all of the predominant discourse in the early twentieth century, encouraging and exacerbating accusations of vice, gambling, interracial seduction, drug use, and other ‘moral offences’ against the Chinese. Racist perception of Chinese immigrant men in Canada helped to sustain prevailing imperialist ideologies, marking out Asian societies as ‘backward’ and ‘primitive.’ Chinese immigrant men were perceived to have inferior moral standards and, like other men of colour, were believed to be ncapable of controlling their sexual desires. Moral anxieties of this kind contributed to public support for racist legislation such as the Chinese Exclusion Act, and other laws and regulations which served to limit the entry of Chinese persons into Canada and to socially and economically marginalize those already here
Struggle and Emerge: An Analysis of the Biopic, Documentary, and Drama Film Genres
Get PDFA historical film is fostered through the effective integration of cinematic language. It is through the development of cinematic components that film genres such as the drama, documentary, and biopic can be compared. The drama Flags of Our Fathers, the documentary We Were Children, and the biopic Walk the Line are comparable through the analysis of the directors’ incorporation of specific film language. The similarities and differences among the film genres are evident in cinematic components such as cinematography, lighting, and symbolism. Greater analysis exposes how film language contributes to the films historical significance
Freedmen in Context: Reconsidering the Role of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Reconstruction Histories
Get PDFThe Freedmen\u27s Bureau\u27s role has been panned by historians. Following the first Reconstruction, the Freedmen\u27s Bureau was characterized by failure. However, as we move into the second Reconstruction, historians began to debate the role the Bureau actually had. This historiography tracks the arguments relating to the Bureau over several decades and notes the trends which were used historically to characterize the successes and failures of the Bureau following the Civil War. This historiography tracks the changing identity of the Bureau from its earliest descriptions as being entirely neutral in Reconstruction, to being an oppressive figure in Reconstruction, then being a victim of racial policies, and eventually to a contextual identity that blends all previous characterizations