Sources of knowledge

has taken an important role on students’ college career, but as the return, students have gained huge benefit at the same time. More than Textbook Comparing to the college students several decades ago, the students in modern era can expand their knowledge with the help of digital technology instead of linear learning. With the help of digital technology,…

Fate, the idea that one has a predetermined future, plays a major role in this reality. Gods have a tremendous influence over humans and play with their lives like a game of chess. In fact, without the gods, men are believed to lack knowledge and the power of decision. The testimony of a god makes something true, and consequently, piety is momentously important; what the gods say and do are thought to be correct and able to be used as models for moral action. Purging and "houses ridden…

In the late fifth century B.C, the Greek philosopher Plato defined knowledge as “justified, true belief”. This proclamation assumes knowledge must be justified through ways of knowing in order to be classified as knowledge . So if for example a piece of information is perceived through sense perception such as the equation 1+1=2, it must then pass through a process of rational analysis before it can be classified as knowledge ( one may justify this by taking one unit of a facet and adding…

Prescribed Title: With reference to two areas of knowledge discuss the way in which shared knowledge can shape personal knowledge. To what extent can shared knowledge modify our behaviour and perspective on aspects of life? Shared knowledge plays a huge role in shaping who we are as people, it helps us to identify ourselves and hence, quite obviously have a great influence over our personal knowledge. Shared knowledge is knowledge that many people take part in producing via collaboration, and…

Out of School Literacies and how almost any material can be implemented into our lessons. Watching videos on how students incorporated rhymes and music to learn about science was engaging and fun. It gave me ideas on how to incorporate outside sources to create a thoughtful and challenging way to get my students engaged with concepts. Lastly, I felt that the weekly forums were a huge help in understanding the topics. The questions that Landon posted allowed us to think about our own…

the last stanza and gather information on his own. If both X and the narrator were not passionate about their learning, neither of them would have gone out their way. As scholars, information that a student learns becomes fodder to increase their knowledge and make…

many studies in SLA field. Some researches (e.g. Krashen, 1981; Paradis, 1994) do not see much contribution of explicit grammar teaching in L2 development, whereas others (R. Ellis, 1994) argue that explicit knowledge accelerates form-meaning mapping and helps to attain certain types of knowledge, such as academic or professional speaking and writing, that are not easy to acquire in naturalistic learning (Hinkel & Fotos, 2002). Regardless the theory to which teachers align, they should always…

Nicholas Carr published an article titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” on the July/August 2008 issue of the Atlantic. In it, he discusses the continuing issue of how technological advances, such as the internet, have shaped the way we think and gain knowledge. Carr compares different instances of this situation throughout history in the attempt to see whether or not, an unlimited access to human information has altered the way we learn about the world. He describes that: “For me, as for others,…

way the lessons are delivered which may depend upon the learning style of the pupil. 3. Deliver/Facilitate – teaching and learning to be carried out a suitable manner. 4. Assessment – This is ensuring that the learners have gained the skills and knowledge that has been taught, this can be done via…

baking paper in front of the light source, the output of the solar panel decrease. The last experiment we did is colour filter experiment. ( re-describing phase) In order to students to understand the property of light that light consist different wavelength. Firstly we recapped the knowledge which we were previously discovered and the prism experiment they did in the high school. From the results they obtained in the filter experiment plus the previous knowledge, with our assistance, they…