Critical infrastructure

I came home from work one day, and found my daughter’s school interim report card on the kitchen table. She usually gets really good grades, earning nothing below a B. However, to my surprise, this time around she came home with a C in History. Now, we had just bought her a new iPhone a few months prior to this incident because, as it turns out, she had made the all A honor roll. But inevitably, as with most teenagers, she ends up dedicating a considerable amount of time on her newly…

While the suitor knight and Meleagant are portrayed as arrogant antagonists, Chretien notably qualifies those portrayals, as both characters exhibit characteristics of worthy knights. Before beginning the episode of the suitor knight and his father, Chretien begins by clarifying that “the customs and practices at this time were such that…if [a lady] were being escorted by another [knight], and [a] knight chose to do battle with her defender and defeated him at arms, then he might do with her as…

information and accepting new information that is gained through questioning, analyzing, and problem solving. In indirect instructions students work their way through the information deciding what is accurate and adding to that knowledge as they use critical thinking skills, questioning, and problem solving skills. Because of this, students are in charge of their learning when teachers use the indirect instruction model. Teachers do help lead students to the correct conclusions by asking…

In recent generations, people of all ages have experienced a tremendous amount of exceptional advances in technology. A multitude of educators and scholars are against implementing the use of technology in the classroom. However, technologies impact on students’ is vital to the way they learn and grow. Technology is a vital asset that is used to benefit students by allowing them to become involved in their studies, allowing them to interact in group work with the students in the classroom, and…

pool. Therefore, to be competitive, employees must acquire skills that set them apart from any machine. To succeed in the modern world it is important to acquire skills that machines cannot emulate, such as emotional intelligence, reading, writing, critical thinking skills, unstructured problem solving, and ability to break loose from monoculture. Emotional intelligence is a crucial quality for success because it sharpens the individual’s ability to communicate…

Silveris provides us research-based studies that tell us adolescent drinking has increased almost ten percent in the last ten years. The question Silveri attempts to answer is what effects does this have directly on adolescents, and on society as a whole. Is this the effect of underlying factors such as alcohol being easier to obtain by adolescents or even an increase in depression by adolescents? Additionally Silveri discusses the types of harms adolescent drinking has directly the brain.…

As a Nursing major, I have learned that excelling in college academic writing and critical thinking is essential to succeed in the health care profession. Over the course of this semester I have made tremendous changes to my way of thinking as a writer; such as my skills of critical analysis significantly improving. It was quite evident to myself that writing was a weakness for me throughout high school, and struggled with the confidence to believe in my writing. Typically, I focused most of my…

university goals to optimize ability for problem solving, and making decision which those university goals are inquiry and critical thinking, communication, appreciation of human diversity and ethical and social responsibility. The project involves a lot of discussion which helps in development of communication skills. The project also requires four class presentations which help in critical thinking. The analysis and interaction with other group members enables me…

also important to practice patience and good listening skills, because a leader must understand the feelings, meanings, and perceptions aligned with the data (Murphy, 2013). Additionally, when these decisions are made and conclusions are drawn using critical thinking, which is applying reason and logic to situations (Freeman, 2009), confidence and trust in leadership is strengthened (Sergiovanni, 2013). Thus, reason and logic are the tools of a leader who has a diplomatic approach to problem…

I presented my lesson to an 8th grade Social Studies classroom. In this classroom I presented a lesson that incorporated critical thinking and evaluating primary sources to support their argument. My mentor teacher and I came up with a lesson called “Who fired the first shot” where we showed students videos and documents about the battle at Lexington and Concord. I sent students a PowerPoint with four different points of view about the event at Lexington. My since my school is a one-to one (one…