Intelligence tests

While I was doing this test, I questioned its accuracy. Will this test really reveal my level of self-esteem? The answer is no. Call me pessimistic but I’ve never believed that tests like these would give a correct answer. Maybe because I already know which answers to choose so as to lead me to a certain…

In the first semester, I took studio art class. In this class I was assigned the task of creating a triptych of a fruit. A triptych is a piece of art that shows something in three different stages. I chose to create a triptych of a mango. I chose this fruit because it is my favorite fruit and I thought it would look great in a triptych. I got the okay from my teacher Ms. Boncher and started researching mangos. To create my triptych I started by researching the different shapes in a…

Have you ever been working on homework and thought, “what am I doing?”. You are not alone. Many high school students feel that homework is an unnecessary part of the learning process, but most of all they feel like it shouldn’t be graded. It seems more like a chore to most, and not something productive that will help them learn. Don’t get me wrong, homework can be great for reinforcement but often it is covering things that students didn’t learn well enough in class or didn’t learn at all! I…

Toddlers Should Know Technology Toddler’s using technology has grown tremendously over the past few years because parents give the child either their phone or iPad so that the child is occupied. Parents let their toddler have a device, triple the time that they used to because our world is now technology based. The more toddlers are using technology, the more familiar they will be with the world we live in. Toddler’s that use technology is smarter than the ones that don’t. Toddlers should be…

Assessing Listening in the ESL Classroom is a video that is full of specific drills and activities that can be used to practice listening skills and assess listener’s abilities. Types of listening include intensive, responsive, selective, and extensive listening, which are all addressed in the video. Most people are good listeners, but not everyone and for those individuals listening assessments can be useful. It can be hard to assess because we cannot see it directly if someone is not a good…

Class #10 (Lab during class #9) Readings: None listed in the outline (PSA Presentation day!) Today we had all of our Public Service Announcement assignments present in class. Some were videos, slideshows and poems. Over all, it was very interesting to see and learn about all of the different trauma related fields, theories, facts and activities. I think that everyone brought forward a creative presentation, making their PSA their very own. I truly enjoyed this class and think that it followed…

SLA Research As far as the research of major issues Second Language Acquisition (SLA) is concerned, a set of widely attested empirical, findings has been achieved in the past 50 years. Interest areas and priority areas have included age effects; effects of individual differences in language aptitudes and other affect and cognitive variables; the role of the broader social context and linguistic environment as sources of negative and positive evidence and of opportunities for input, output, and…

It’s undeniable that new technology has brought some wonderful innovations to our lives. Whether it be bringing the joys of life back to disabled people such as Stephen Hawking, or allowing us to order pizzas with the click of a mouse. It has also completely revolutionized the way we learn. We no longer write a paper. We type a paper. What was once the job of a plethora of books is now the job of one search engine. With this new technology, the world is at our fingertips. But, is this change…

and lack of knowledge is in this town. Psychologists Miron Zuckerman and Jordan Silberman from the University of Rochester and Judith Hall from Northeastern University created a study to see if religion had any effect on intelligence levels. They found that religion and intelligence did not go hand in hand, in 53 out of 63 studies. Zukerman, Silberman, and Hall said, “Intelligent people are less likely to conform and, thus, are more likely to resist religious dogma. Second, intelligent people…

Learning, what is it? Is it only, how it is defined, as the “acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or by being taught?” Is education something we can only obtain through our school system? Education actually begins when we are born; a voyage that has commenced, as we experience new things we develop and learn spiritually and intellectually. Socrates questioned what no man had before, rather than writing books he passed on his knowledge orally. Socrates pursued wisdom in…