striving to reach their goals. There’s a lot more into it then just finishing the work assigned it’s the process of learning the information. In the following essay Power Learning by Sheila Akers‚ she details three study skills that are fundamental keys to success in college. First‚ she describes the importance of time control and the best steps of managing your schedule. Akers describes the best way of time control is to organize your schedule in three different processes. Beginning with a monthly
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Summary of Donald Akers “A Rose for Emily” In his article entitled “A Rose for Emily‚” Donald Akers states that this short story will “remain a remarkable‚ provocative work regardless of the critical approach.” Akers described Emily as a weird character because of her refusal to pay taxes in the story and telling the tax collectors to discuss her taxes with a dead man. The man had been dead for ten years‚ and she was pretending he was alive. The author states that Emily’s being weird may appear
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I am reading “The Bass‚ The River‚ and Shelia Mant” by W.D. Wetherell and I am on page 6. This book is about a boy who likes a girl next to their cabin and he has watched knows all her moods and he’s also showed off to her. He finally asks her out to the fair and he decides to canoe up to the fair he catches a big bass in fact the biggest one he has ever had but he soon finds out she dosent like fishing so he cuts his fishing line. In this paper I will be___ Active Reading Strategy ____and ______
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Applying Feldman’s Power Learning strategies‚ evaluate the best ways to prepare for taking a test and analyze what specific strategies you would use to answer multiple choice questions and essay questions. Examination preparation is a way to get students ready for that time when examinations come around. To be successful in this preparation the students should have a strategy when preparing and even during the examination. Before the exam‚ students should have a proper organization of all notes
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Power Learning Many students are surprised at the difference in studying for college courses versus how they studied in high school. No matter how successful a student you were‚ the learning skills you used in high school will likely not be sufficient to guarantee success in a college course. Students discover that they need to adapt their study habits to the college setting. There are certain dependable skills that you will read about that will make the difference between failure and success for
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The Power of Mindful Learning In this book‚ The Power of Mindful Learning‚ author Ellen Langer conveys the theory of mindful learning and its implications for education‚ wherever it takes place - like in school‚ on the job‚ in the home and it clearly expresses in nonacademic manner. Mindful learning involves "openness to novelty; alertness to distinction; sensitivity to different contexts; implicit‚ if not explicit‚ awareness of multiple perspectives; and orientation in the present." Certain
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Erin Nelson Due date: Friday 25th Journal 1 I am reading “The Bass‚ the River‚ and Shelia Mant” by W.D. Wetherell. This story is about the narrator who likes a older girl and asks her on a date. When she accepts they go in a canoe to the dance and he hooks a Bass and has to choose. In this journal I will be questioning and connecting. I am wondering weather or not the narrator will choose Shelia or the Bass. I will also be connecting a decision where it ended up in regret. One possibility
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The Peninsula Manila is my dream hotel. I really enjoyed my stay there and finally‚ my dreams came true. I have used to render my 500 hours there and I so loved it. I was assigned in the Housekeeping Department which are headed by Ms. Marimil Ermita‚ the Executive Housekeeper and Mr. William Ty‚ the Assistant Executive Housekeeper. I was so happy when I assigned in the rooms because I got a chance to see and learned all the things that I needed to experience and also to maintain the standards of
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The Power of Online Learning and The MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) In the past decade‚ the changes and improvements that technology has brought us have been enormous. The rapid pace with which we are adapting ourselves to use these capabilities is unprecedented. Technology has revolutionized many industries‚ but some areas still have not been fully changed. Education is an area that holds a huge potential for improvement with the correct implementations of technology. One of the most rapidly
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In Langer’s‚ “The Power of Mindful Learning”‚ Langer explores the limitations that present itself in rote memory and gives some examples about how rote memory tactics can create the illusion that knowledge had been gained on the surface‚ but in reality could put a stop on the learner when greater perspective is needed to make connections. Most people memorize certain things without even realizing it. They remember the information by constant mindless repetition. Another way of memorization comes
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