Category: Essays

Required Texts Marc Prensky (2012) From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom, Hopeful Essays for 21st Century Learning

Chapter 17 consists of a chart for game based learning strategies. In their own environments and ours, students are constantly playing games on mobile devices, laptops, desktops, and gaming systems. Are there possibilities for educational integration? Yes, that’s a given. Are “Oregon Trail” and “Carmen Sandiego” the only options? Absolutely not! Recently, the most beneficial games/apps seem to be freemium games, in the sense that you can test them for free, but must pay to coninue using or moving on to additional levels. The mobile market has caused this type of platform to explode over the past 1-2 years.

Based on the chart’s Types of Learning/Possible Game Styles, choose three categories from the lists on pages 156-157 and dig up educational game titles for each category:
1) Mobile games
2) Desktop/Laptop games
3) System console games- PS3, XBOX, WII

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C. Frameworks
1. Currently Available
a) Titanium
b) PhoneGap
c) Rhomobile
d) Sencha
e) Other Options
2. Comparisons
a) Quality
b) Flexibility
c) Cost
(1) Initial
(2) Long-term
(3) Learning Curve

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1. Identify one are of intervention for the family, based on the interview data and analysis.
2. Provide a critical analysis of the literature, highlighting recommended interventions and supports for the family.

My chosen intervention I would like you guys to focus on is Coping strategies/mechanisms for my patient and family as this is what he identified as him primary concern. (how long he will have if the cancer has spread? how his family will handle it? etc. The interview with my client I will attach to this account.

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Have you ever seen Blue Man Group perform? If not, here is a ten-minute video that showcases the group’s unique, creative talent: Blue Man Group – part 01. In their own way, the members of the Blue Man Group reflect the essence of the Landfill Harmonic project. For example, at the heart of Blue Man Group’s act are musical instruments made from things that were not originally designed to make music. Similar to the Landfill Harmonic accomplishments, Blue Man Group’s creativity is not just applied to making music, but to making the instruments that make the music.

Something you might not know about the Blue Man Group is that the members have created a school specifically designed to encourage and cultivate the creative spirit in children. Called “Blue School,” this educational environment applies the principles described by Ken Robinson (and others) to the design and operation of a school. This short three-minute video provides an overview of the school and its mission: The blue school.

Blue School actively supports the learning of 21st-century skills. When carefully examining the instructional experiences that help students learn and apply 21st-century skills, you might realize that culturally relevant pedagogy is often a natural byproduct of such approaches. This discussion is designed to provide you with further practice in analyzing learning situations to better understand how culturally relevant pedagogy, learning 21st-century skills, and creativity naturally form a triangle of support:High Tech High is a secondary school committed to facilitating 21st-century skills. Examine the 21st Century skills culture at High Tech High video that provides an overview of High Tech High and its commitment to facilitating 21st-century skills. As you carefully examine the information presented about the school, consider how its courses and programs naturally support a culturally relevant approach to instruction that promotes creativity. After viewing the video, answer the following questions about the school:
•In what way is culturally relevant pedagogy evident at the school? Link specific observations from the video with one or more of the following specific characteristic of a culturally relevant environment:

a.Maximizing academic success through relevant instructional experiences.
b.Addressing cultural competence through reinforcing students’ cultural integrity.
c.Involving students in the construction of knowledge.
d.Building on students’ interests and linguistic resources.
e.Tapping home and community resources.
f.Understanding students’ cultural knowledge.
g.Using interactive and constructivist teaching strategies.
h.Examining the curriculum from multiple perspectives.
i.Promoting critical consciousness through opportunities to challenge predominant elements of the students’ social norms.

•Do the same for creativity instead of cultural relevance. In what way is creativity evident at the school? Link specific observations from the video with one or more of the following specific characteristic of instruction that supports the development of creativity:

a.Encouraging students to believe in their culture-influenced creative potential.
b.Nurturing the confidence to try.
c.Helping learners find their creative strengths.
d.Promoting experiment and inquiry and a willingness to make mistakes.
e.Encouraging generative thought, free from immediate criticism.
f.Encouraging the expression of personal ideas and feelings.
g.Conveying an understanding of phases in creative work and the need for time.
h.Developing an awareness of the roles of intuition and aesthetic processes.
i.Encouraging students to play with ideas and conjecture about possibilities.
j.Facilitating critical evaluation of ideas.

•Summarize the relationship between 21st-century skills, culturally relevant instruction, and creativity.

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Having already read and discussed the arguments and evidence presented by Fareed Aakaria and Thomas L. Friedman, consider the opportunities and risks facing the United Sates during this current period of changing global relations. Go beyond listing them and develop your own argument about what Americans should prioritize in their understanding of global changes and why. In this way, your argument will assert some reasoning for a particular kind of stance or attitude toward globalization. In this essay, be sure you -write a synthesis of the two texts -include and advance a thesis -develop an introduction, supporting paragraphs and conclusion to support the thesis/argument -integrate quotations into the grammar of a sentence -attach quotations with punctuation Follow MLA format:

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o Identify someone who uses both the full-version and the mobile-version of a website. Include a screenshot or photo of the homepage of both versions.
o With their permission, take their picture and provide a brief bio. NOTE: Take a picture. Do not download it from a social media application.
o Beyond their biographic information, ask them a set of questions of your choosing to better understand their use goals.
o Determine why he/she uses both versions through an interview, specifically comparing and contrasting the experience of using each version of the website.
o Include the questions that you asked as well as the interviewee’s exact responses.

Grading Rubric
 Did you include a photo of your interviewee? If not, minus 5-10 points.
 Did you include a bio, inclusive of interests, skills, and hobbies, for your interviewee? If not, minus 10-15 points.

 Did you include a screenshot or a photo of both the full-version and the mobile-version of the website? If not, minus 5-10 points.
 Did you include the interviewee’s exact responses to all of the interview questions provided, including questions probing the interviewee’s experience using each version of the website? If not minus, 5-20 points.
 Did you discuss the current reading from Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited as well as material covered in the class? If not, minus 2-4 points.
 Did you reflect on how your personal design philosophy has evolved and/or on how what you have learned influenced your design decisions when completing your assignment? If not, minus 2-4 points.
 In general, if you didn’t cite a source, including when you’re the source, minus 1 point for each missing citation. In addition, if you did a poor job of laying out your assignment and were not thoughtful about presentation in general, additional points may be deducted.

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Next explore Library and conduct a search to locate a minimum of three nursing research articles that have addressed the problem you have identified. The literature may not be older than 5 years. After reading the literature respond to the following:

The final project for consists of the development of a novel research proposal specific to your role specialization (Family Nurse Practitioner). The project must include an intervention appropriate to nursing practice and consistent with your MSN role option. An alternative to the above includes the selection of a specialty organization to focus research proposals based on the priorities of that organization. Examples of these organizations could include (but are not limited to): Sigma Theta Tau International, American Nurses’ Foundation, Oncology Nursing Society, Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, American Psychiatric Nursing Association, American Association of Critical Care Nurses, National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners, National League For Nursing, etc.

Throughout this course you have been developing various sections of the research proposal. This week you will assemble the final proposal (addressing faculty feedback). This paper is to be developed in APA format/style using the required template and not to exceed 15 pages (excluding title page/references/appendices).

Criteria:
Introduction

Background and Significance of Problem
Statement of the Problem and Purpose of the Study

Literature Review

Summary of the Evidence for the Proposed Study

Research Question, Hypothesis and Variables with Operational Definitions
Theoretical Framework

Overview and Guiding Propositions(s) Described in Theory
Application of Theory to Your Study’s/Project’s Focus

Methodology

Sample/Setting: Number and criteria for inclusion and description of place in which data will be collected.
Sampling Strategy
Research design: Type (e.g., Quasi-Experimental), description and rationale for selection.
Extraneous Variables (and plan for how controlled).
Instruments: Description, validity and reliability estimates, which have been performed (on a pre-established measure). Include plans for testing validity and reliability of generating your own instrument(s).
Description of the Intervention
Data Collection Procedures
Data Analysis Plans
Describe plan for data analysis for demographic variables (descriptive statistical tests).
Describe plan for data analysis of study variables (descriptive and inferential statistical tests).

Ethical Issues

Describe ethical considerations and your plan to protect human rights.

Limitation of Proposed Study
Implications for practice
References
Appendices

Informed Consent Letter
Procedure section is clear, described in detail, specific, and all inclusive. Written in lay language (as documented by reading level score). Includes risks & benefits relevant to study. Address assent (if applicable).

Submit your assignment to the W10: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Week 10, Day 5.
CRITERIA
WEIGHT

Introduction (10)
Background and Significance of Problem
5
Statement of the Problem and Purpose of the Study
5
Literature Review (20)
20

Research Question, Hypothesis and Variables with Operational Definitions (12)
Research Question, Hypothesis
7
Variables with Operational Definitions
5

Theoretical Framework (20)

Overview and Guiding Propositions(s) Described in Theory
10
Application of Theory to Your Study’s/Project’s Focus
10

Methodology (80)

Sample/Setting: Number and criteria for inclusion and description of place in which data will be collected.
10
Sampling Strategy
10
Research design: Type (e.g., Quasi-Experimental), description and rationale for selection.
10
Extraneous Variables (and plan for how controlled).
5
Instruments: Description, validity and reliability estimates, which have been performed (on a pre-established measure). Include plans for testing validity and reliability of generating your own instrument(s).
15
Description of the Intervention
10
Data Collection Procedures
10

Data Analysis Plans

Describe plan for data analysis for demographic variables (descriptive statistical tests).
Describe plan for data analysis of study variables (descriptive and inferential statistical tests).

10

Ethical Issues (10)
Describe ethical considerations and your plan to protect human rights.
10
Limitations and Implications

8
Scholarly Research (20)

References & Appendices

10
Informed Consent Letter Procedure section is clear, described in detail, specific, and all inclusive. Written in lay language (as documented by reading level score). Includes risks & benefits relevant to study. Address assent (if applicable).

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Examine the structure and activities in your organization and identify two projects or events that required an investment. One should be a ‘current project’ and the other long-term investment project.

For each project or event, identify the preferable source of funding. You may not have access to the actual source of funding so limit your paper to the source YOU feel is most appropriate. Then explain why you feel that source is most appropriate.There are 2 specific learning outcomes: 1) apply business theories, models, and concepts to guide analysis of problems and situations and 2) utilize data driven analysis in making business decisions.

The emphasis will be on understanding the preferable source of funding.

•Identify two projects or events that required an investment.
•Identify the preferable source of funding and explain why you feel that source is most appropriate.
•Write 2-4 pages, showing computations and discussing the results.
•List supporting references and cite sources.

**Additional question: Many of the small “dot-com” companies got financing in the form of an instrument called convertible debt. This is like ordinary debt, in that it pays a regular (but slightly lower than you would expect) interest amount. But debtholders have the right to convert it to equity at some point in the future. Why do you think these companies chose this instrument? Do you think it was a good idea? Does convertible debt offer the same advantages to larger, more established companies such as Exxon Mobil? Remember: there’s no ‘free lunch’. If a company offers creditors an option to convert the bond into stocks it must be giving them something of value. It should get something in return… (You may browse for ‘convertible debentures’ on the web to help you out with this).

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Student life does not generally afford a great deal of free time to pursue your personal interests; however, at one point, you may have considered turning a personal interest or hobby into an official enterprise. Today, you have finally decided to turn that hobby into a business but have realized that you need start-up capital from a lender or investor.
To obtain funding, you need to convince a lender / investor that your business is more than a hobby. You need to demonstrate that you have a firm grasp of your business, the accounting practices that impact your business, the controls needed to safeguard assets, and which accounting system will produce accurate and relevant financial information.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page business plan in which you:

Describe the type of business you have created including:
The product or service, and general staffing plan. Provide a rationale for your plan.
The form of your business and the benefits it offers your particular business,
A chart of accounts specific to your business, including a rationale as to the selection of each account. (Note: The chart of accounts is a blueprint of your business for the lender/investor. It should report the expected resources that you will consume in your business (assets), the sources of those resources (liabilities and equity), the sources of revenue, and expenditures that you expect to incur to earn those revenues. You may build a detailed chart that includes business units, divisions, product lines, etc.)

Based on the form of your business, analyze whether or not you will be required to use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) accounting methods and how the IFRS / GAAP convergence will impact your business. Suggest how you will incorporate any changes into your books and records. (Note: You need to demonstrate to the lender/investor that you have recognized possible changes to GAAP that may impact the accounting and reporting of your accounting events.)
Prepare a pro forma balance sheet and income statement providing the assumptions made and support the valuations assigned.
Considering the value of assets (assigned per your balance sheet) used within your business, recommend two (2) specific internal controls that you will implement to protect your company’s assets and resources, justifying how each will provide assurances to management. (NOTE: Safeguarding assets and protecting personal data are paramount to ensuring the viability of a business. Demonstrate to the lender/investor that your assets will be safeguarded and customer information (if applicable) will be protected.)
Based on the internal control recommendations that you made, suggest how you will implement each within your business environment, indicating how challenges or resistances will be overcome.
Evaluate the impact of the regulatory environment, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other regulatory requirements, on your business venture, giving considering to how you intend to comply with the requirements and the general impact to decision making within your business.
Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

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Treat the case as a business case with a finance emphasis. Write from the perspective of a consultant to the firm’s management, advising how to optimize the owners’ wealth. The marketing, operations and other management aspects are important. About half the grade is on the qualitative analysis. Always approach the case from the perspective of a financial management perspective, despite some cases seeming to emphasize a financial institution’s perspective.

 Write cases in standard English prose (paragraphs and sentences).

 Exclude repetition of material from the casebook.

 The only limit only the number of tables/graphs is discretion. Give a descriptive label for each table/graph. Put your assumptions in a table rather than in your write up. Write at least one paragraph in your write up on each scenario/table. Describe what the scenario models, how likely it is and which numbers are the most important. Interpret the important numbers. Exclude technical reviews saying how you divided A by B to get C or how you hacked up the “v.”

 Single-scenario solutions are penalized by a minimum of one letter grade. You should always test your spreadsheet to see how changes in risky variables change the output data. A good way to beat the plagiarism problem is to develop and discuss the spreadsheet model of a case, and then to go your separate ways and prepare and write up scenarios on your own.

 In the last paragraph, unequivocally state and defend your recommendations. Conceptually, a recommendation cannot be a scenario.

 Spreadsheet analysis is essential.

Case Tips

•Do cash flow forecasts for 2005-2009 checking to see if the deal can be 80% debt funded

•Do a valuation

•WACC: 9%

•Consider sensitivity to the long-term growth rate (3%, 4%, …)

•Exchange rate: 0.8388

•Extra: estimate the benefits to Bain including Bain’s rate of return.

Above are the instructor’s guidelines for the case study. The case is on Bain Capital and Dollarama and I will provide the case in a word document. My professor requires the case to be written in “cash flow speak” by using the financial statements that I will provide. There needs to be a base case scenario and a pessimistic and optimistic scenario analysis done and explained in the case. Also he requires a spreadsheet analysis and if I could get me that spreadsheet you could write 4 pages and the spreadsheet.

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