UTC Akademic Education Site

Archive for September, 2011

Nadie puede disminuir el valor de los libros en la vida de un estudiante. Son necesarios para realizar muchas cosas en los estudios. Imagina una universidad sin biblioteca. Para muchos, una institución de aprendizaje no puede existir sin una biblioteca. Siempre es una parte integral de una institución que tiene como su meta la instrucción de los estudiantes.

Pero en la vida moderna, existen más que las escuelas tradicionales. Ahora, a parte de las escuelas presenciales, existen las aulas virtuales. Una educación hecha enteramente en por la Red. Pero también en estos casos, la importancia de los libros no disminuye nunca. Los libros siguen una cosa tan importante para tener éxito en las clases.

Gracias a la misma tecnología que nos trajo las universidades en línea, también tenemos una cosa como las Bibliotecas en  línea. Antes, pocas bibliotecas creyeron en la eficacia de las versiones en línea  de sus materiales. Para ellos, los libros en línea no pueden nunca reemplazar los libros en papel. Siempre preferían los libros en los papeles que los libros en línea.

En realidad, tienen razón. Todo el mundo siempre tendrá una predilección íntima a los libros en papel. Pero en la edad de la educación virtual, las bibliotecas virtuales son la misma necesidad. Y por eso, es imperativo que las instituciones ofrezcan cosas para ayudar los estudiantes en la ausencia de los libros en papel. Por ejemplo, si tomes una materia en imagen pública, ya existen libros en imagen pública en la red para que podamos leerlo y suplementar las materiales en nuestros cursos en línea.

Pero no es la sola ventaja de los libros en línea. Como son en línea, no es necesario más gastar para el envío. Solo es necesario mandarlos por el internet y todo está listo. También no hay un problema que los libros estarán «fuera la circulación». Siempre y cuando que hay una versión guardada, el autor estará listo para mandarte una copia. Es tan cómodo para todo.

Y piensa la ayuda que da en el medio ambiente. Menos papel quiere decir menos árboles cortados. Podemos dejar los árboles crecer y nos comparte su precioso oxígeno. Más oxígeno quiere decir menos dióxido de carbón. Y menos dióxido de carbón quiere decir menos oportunidad para el calentamiento global.

Imagínate un mundo donde podemos aprender muchas cosas sin destruir el medio ambiente. Imagínate un mundo donde podemos realizar nuestros sueños sin matar las cosas que nos ayudan en la vida.

The Arts for Academic Achievement Program

The Arts for Academic Achievement Program (AAA) has been bringing artists into Minneapolis Schools since 1997. While its outward focus is on teaching students to paint, dance, and express themselves artistically, its real mission is to make students love learning and use the arts to apply themselves to their academic subjects. Supported initially by an Annenberg Foundation educational reform grant and in partnership with the Perpich Center for Arts Education, AAA has expanded throughout Minnesota. Currently the Minneapolis School District has pledged to continue the program after the end of the initial grant, bringing the program to 120 classrooms in 40 schools in the Minneapolis School District.

How It Helps Students Learn

Students in the AAA Program develop a positive attitude toward school and learn the value of determination in finishing a project that has meaning for them. National research indicates that instruction through the arts is very effective in raising the achievement scores of at – risk groups. The AAA Program has documented the substantial increase in student assessment scores when arts are integrated into the Minneapolis Public Schools. The ties between third grade reading scores and the level of arts instruction show a clear link between the two. The more arts education provided, the higher the scores, especially within groups that have shown greater barriers in learning.
Read the rest of this entry »

Due to its many benefits, many parents are choosing homeschooling for their children. Homeschooling allows for a more flexible educational experience, and curriculum can be easily tailored to your child’s individual needs. As the costs of private schools continue to rise, homeschooling becomes a viable economic decision as well.

When you decide to homeschool your children, you need to become knowledgeable on a broad range of subjects so you can prepare an adequate educational plan. Once you have established a plan, which should include targets for different subject areas, you should consider the idea of unit projects.

You’re probably familiar with projects, as you likely did one or two if you came through the public school system. Projects are a great way to implement and test knowledge acquired through an educational unit. A good plan is to have a multi-week unit set up for a given subject, and at the end of the unit assign a week-long project that will make use of what your child has learned.

For example, if you and your child study a biology unit, a great week long project is to create an ecosystem. This can be done with an old aquarium, and your child’s goal will be to create an environment that can be self-sufficient in the sealed aquarium. In learning about the water table and the different cycles of nature, encourage your child to think of the best way to make his or her ecosystem. After your child has come up with a plan, take him to a store to by the requisite materials with which to begin his project. Once it is started have him track the ecosystem’s progress every day.
Read the rest of this entry »

With all of the fervor these days about the dangers of global warming many people are concerned about the fate of Antarctica. The fears are that the ice that makes up the continent is melting faster than normal and not freezing back as it usually does with a very even ebb and flow. The concerns are that this will eventually raise the sea level enough to put major cities and land masses under water and leave millions of people homeless and/or even dead.

So who are making these claims? Well there are many scientists that have been looking at the earth’s climates and weather systems for a long time and trying to make sense of them. The earliest reason for doing this was not to measure the affect of the greenhouse gases that are magnifying the suns intensity and causing the heat to stay within it. They originally wanted to learn about the earth so that they could by recognizing signs be could warn of natural disasters like earth quakes and hurricanes and tsunamis. Since they have kept data to look for these signs they have noticed disturbing trends in things like the average temperature and the increasing sea level and other things like the sized of the ice cap over Antarctica and they seem to only be going in one direction which spells trouble.
Read the rest of this entry »