Inquiring learning and gifted student with hearing and visual impairment

1.  Students with special gifts and talents may benefit from an inquiry-based learning approach for many reasons, but planning for and implementing inquiry learning may be taxing to teachers. Imagine you are a teacher talking with a colleague about inquiry-based learning. Your colleague does not think the benefits of the approach outweigh the challenges. What … Read more

Week 4 chat

Post 1: What Have You Learned?Given what you learned in the assigned readings/video, answer the following questions: Describe your impressions of the article on technology and overpopulation.  What school of thought are you most comfortable with and why; the bigger pie school, the fewer forks school, or the better manners school?  Briefly describe your impressions of … Read more

Week 3 chat

Using the assigned article and the article you located on Brain Gain/Brain Drain, answer the following questions: What is brain-gain and what cities are affected? Do you have a brain gain city in your state? What type of businesses recruit in brain gain cities? What cities are losing because of brain gain? And finally, would you … Read more

Week 2 char

What are some of the misconceptions Americans have about immigration and how it impacts cities? What evidence is given that immigration has a positive impact on American cities?

Discussion

Do you believe that a border fence is constitutional? What combination of physical boundaries and legal constraints should the United States use to prevent undocumented immigration ? What about the rights of immigrants ?

week 2 cj chat

Research and discuss a hate crime case. Why is the impact of hate crime on victims much more severe than that of a similar crime without bias. If you were a bystander of a hate crime, what would you do?

week 3 journal

All questions are worth 20 points:   If you are an attorney, is there a point where nonlegal moral considerations supersede your ethical commitment to your client? If you were a defense lawyer and your client was innocent, but you could not prove it, would you violate ethical barriers in service to your client? Are … Read more

Measures of Central Tendency

  Statistics is the science of organizing and analyzing information to make informed decisions. The following are reading scores for two fifth grade classes. For each class’s scores, organize the data, find the mean, mode, median, quartiles, and range, and draw a box and whisker graph for each class using a single number line. Analyze … Read more