Knowledge sharing

& Schreiner, 2006, p.4). Upon taking the StrengthsQuest survey, as a part of the class requirements for Interdisciplinary Studies 400, I discovered that my strongest theme is learner. Learners, as the name implies, love to learn and obtain new knowledge. For learners, the process of learning is an adventure that brings immense joy and excitement. The discovery that learner is my strongest theme was not a surprise for me, as I use learning every day in my life. This theme can be used in everyday…

the teaching method is totally different from what I experienced before. In the high school I attended, the average class size was ten. I feel like with small class sizes, professors are able to make sure that every student fully understands the knowledge by using dialogic discourse. However, the way of learning became much different when…

Knowledge is power in our society. With knowledge one can critically think about situations and make an educated analysis of their findings. Working through the known facts of something to make a decision, but it is the unknown; the things we cant account for that help one draw a conclusion. Literary works from different time periods help show that knowledge is important, but uncertainty is what helps people make their decision. Three women, Story of an Hour, and Dream children all have…

Bruffee argues that the concept of learning is a social rather than individual process and that learning is not assimilating information but rather a social and collaborative effort to create and maintain knowledge. Peer tutoring and in-class group work was used to engage freshman college students who refused traditional help, which led to the discovery that these forms of collaboration did not change what students learned, but how they learned. Oakeshott argues that what distinguishes human…

(Barnhardt 1990, Leavitt 1994, Lipka 1990). In the attempt to examine the impacts of war upon society the first method to mind would be to congregate the students into talking groups, allowing everyone to contribute if so desired on their prior knowledge and understanding on such issues as the changing role of…

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 his travels, and…

Proliferation of Knowledge In the essay “Having a Degree and Being Educated”, Edmund Pellegrino argues that people are becoming dangerously dependent on illusions to bear with reality. Pellegrino declares that people believe that “having a degree is the same as being educated”. Pellegrino states knowledge is nothing but meaningless information without the ability to not just understand it, but to be able to apply it to our daily lives and he then continues to compare knowledge to a disease that…

A mentor is a person who provides others the benefit of their years of experience and/or education. The mentor / mentee experience is shared in a way that the mentor contributes in developing the mentee's skills and abilities, which in turn benefits the mentee and the organization. As organizations put more energy into human resource management and development, supervisors and managers are being evaluated on the basis of how well they develop their staff, not to mention, their own progress…

I remember at an early age receiving my first cassette tape, which happened to be a gift from my mother. This tape contained the album “Surfin’ Safari” by The Beach Boys and was a life-long favorite of my mothers. I would play this tape over and over again, singing along with the band and dancing around to the sounds of the guitar. This was the earliest memory I have where I can clearly recall when my obsession with music began. From this early point, I began diverging into many different genres…

interfere with applications to manage bandwidth … if the use of the network increases, the network providers costs increase as well, but due to flat rate pricing, its revenues stay the same … Comcast[s] blocking of BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer file-sharing is an example of this.” (Schewick, 32) This approach makes sense for the ISP, but it does not help the user and furthermore invalidates the idea of net neutrality. If an ISP is to block any sort of information accessible online, they…