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offered by the authors of these previous research projects are vital to the current investigation because there is evidence that even though happiness is pursued, happiness is not accomplished by the majority of Americans. A Harris Poll, recently published by Harris Interactive (2013), reveals that only 33% of Americans are very happy. This infers that over 200,000,000 Americans could be happier. Sin and Lyubomirsky (2009) report that people in individualist cultures (of which the United States is

Throughout my childhood, adults have always “warned” me about tattoos. They would say things like, “be careful where you place tattoos because it could determine if you get that job or not” or “tattoos are so unprofessional, if you’re planning on doing big things with your life just don’t get a tattoo”. These are statements that I have always heard when growing up in an environment where tattoos were accepted, but not so much for our working and learning environments. Why is it that we live in a

pointless coin. People admittedly do not favor change. Many have seen the statistics concerning how much it costs to maintain making pennies, the time it wastes and the overall problem it creates, but they still would not want to get rid of the penny. The Harris Poll has data supporting that

Research Report on Improving Writing Skills Abstract Our research question was “How can we use blended technology with an interactive whiteboard, document camera, and distance learning equipment to improve the writing skills and social studies OGT scores of all students?” In our study, we found that providing a writing workshop at the beginning of the school year and using the interactive whiteboard and document camera to project rubrics and then having students grade writing samples of OGT answers

5. Corcoran, E. (2009). Getting to The Top of the Class. Forbes, 184(6), 40. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. a. The article discusses technological innovations for the classroom. Smart Technologies has developed what they call "smart boards," large interactive screens which can be connected to the Internet and manipulated by students by their fingers or a stylus. The screens cost between $700 and $4,500 and as of 2009 have sold some 700,000 units worldwide. 6. Ferriter, W. M. (2011). Good Teaching Trumps

Considering a stereotypical class room, the bell rings, students are almost in their seats, and the teacher is demanding their attention. It is hard for the teacher to gain the attention let alone the willingness to learn from their students. No matter what subject is being taught, this has the recipe for boredom from the get go. Any curiosity or imagination for the students has been choked. In order for the teacher to gain the eagerness to learn from his students, he would have to resort to all

1. INTRODUCTION In an interactive digital art, the artwork consists in producing relationships between an active audience and a dynamic art-system [8]. These relationships are part of the concept of relational aesthetics, a tendency in contemporary art in which art is a set of artistic practices that produces a social experience completing the artwork [5]. According to Fels [26] people build relationships with objects external to their own self depending on how deeply embodied the person is into

Calculus I is the first university mathematics class many of our students have to take, our goal is to teach them not only math content but also train them to become independent and skilled problem solvers in those problems that require the techniques and concepts of calculus. The idea of inverted classroom is that the students learn best when they are actively working on a task rather than passively listening to the lecture. This approach to doing class is sometimes called the "flipped classroom"

Course Evaluation for CAP 141C – Dr. Alvarez I will begin my course evaluation by stating that I am only anticipating on obtaining an A or high-B in this class due to the fact that I only learned the course material through self-teaching. I did not obtain any knowledge of the course material from Dr. Alvarez’s lectures. This is largely due to the fact of her grotesque teaching style. In order to further explain how her teaching style impeded on my, and several others’, education of the course material

Question 1: Rodriguez, C. D., Strnadová, I., & Cumming, T. (2013). Using iPads with students with disabilities: Lessons learned from students, teachers, and parents. Intervention in School and Clinic, 1053451213509488. This article was found in the University of North Florida online library through the journal databases. The search terms used were iPad, disabilities, education, and classroom. I chose this article because it has literature review of previous studies, but most importantly