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Motor Skill Learning Theory, 2004.
This paper discusses motor skill learning theory as related to the author?s experience in learning inline skating.
1,485 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 49.95
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This paper explains that, as the author practiced inline skating, he remembered that the learner builds one skill upon another and that problem solving can be used in the acquisition of motor skills. The author pointed out that, for several practice sessions, he simply worked on skating forward faster and smoother, practicing making stops at greater speeds, and ?consolidation of skills?. The author found that new skills, which are variations of old skills, are markedly easier to learn than skills that require new movements, such as alternate ways to stop.
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"After about an hour, I had a minimal level of skill. I could confidently skate forward, lifting my feet rhythmically, swinging my arms and getting a little distance out of each push. Then I really needed to learn how to stop, because I was capable of gathering some speed. A fellow skater showed me how to stop by demonstrating it and describing it, using explicit instructional methods. Before I attempted it, I used pre-visualization to review the skill in my mind. It took several tries to begin to approximate the skill, but as I practiced, I gradually improved, increasing performance efficiency in a pattern of successive approximation."
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Study Skills and Learning Disabilities, 2008.
This paper explores study skills for students with learning disabilities.
727 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 25.95
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The paper relates that learning disabilities can make studying more challenging, as it can be more difficult to process, understand and retrieve information. The paper discusses a study by B.E. Proctor, F. Prevatt, K. Adams, A. Hurst and Y. Petscher that indicated that students with learning disabilities demonstrated weaknesses in study skills in comparison to students without learning disabilities. The paper explains eight strategies that may help all kinds of students learn effectively and achieve academic success.
Outline:
What is a Learning Disability?
Study Skills of Students with Learning Disabilities
Eight Strategies for Effective Studying
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"The term "learning disability" is used to describe a wide array of difficulties that manifest in different ways (Milsom & Hartley, 2005). By definition, students with learning disabilities may demonstrate weaknesses in one or more areas involved in learning. These areas include: spelling, reading, writing, speaking, listening, thinking, and mathematics (Milsom & Hartley, 2005). The manner in which learning disabilities manifest is unique to each individual (Milsom & Hartley, 2005). Learning disabilities can make studying more challenges, as it is often more difficult to process, understand, and retrieve information. Strategies to aid students with learning disabilities can help in developing understanding, the achievement of better grades, and furthermore increase self-esteem and confidence."
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Critical Thinking Skills in Learning, 2008.
An analysis of the importance of critical thinking skills in a student's learning.
8,176 words (approx. 32.7 pages), 84 sources, MLA, $ 175.95
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This paper discusses the relationship between the knowledge configuration and the buildup of cognitive skills, particularly critical thinking skills. It discusses the bridge that needs to be formed between what the students already know and how this prior knowledge can help them understand and use the latest and emerging topics in the field. It also looks at the use of interactive mechanisms that can relate the theoretical comprehension and the practical use in interaction of these theories.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Using Solo-User Programs In Collaborative Environments
Using Collaboration Process For Learning
Using Networking Tools For Collaborative Learning
Using LAN Systems For Collaborative Learning
Using Electronic Mails For Collaborative Learning
Using Internet For Collaborative Learning
Combining Multi-Program Systems For Collaborative Learning
Synthesis Of Research On CSCL
Using CSILE For Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills
Using Belvedere For Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills
Using CoVis For Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills
Using Telecomunicando For Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills
Conclusions
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"Computer Supported Collaborative Learning is very much related to the advancements and modifications in the approach towards education and teaching. We have discussed how some researchers highly favor the CSCL mechanism and have carried out studies that have made it come across as the most efficient ridge between education and technology. The two most important factors supporting CSCL are that it was the first to initiate the use of computer technology to improve the value of education and broaden the spectrum of the social interaction of students as well as teachers. All computer based programs that that were designed for individual improvement also proved to be useful in group dynamics. Also, when the computer-based programs offer the students and the teachers the opportunity to work in group dynamics through networks or public databases or internet conferencing, the growth and enhancement of the social interaction and understanding does become more apparent. Networking also helps the students and the teachers to indulge in joint ventures and constantly design and construct more and more educational as well as scientific theories, inquiries, tactics, etc (Jarvela et al, 1999)."
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Skill Learning, 2005.
An analysis of skill learning through cognitive therapy for schizophrenic individuals.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper presents a working model for using cognitive behavioral therapy in teaching schizophrenics daily lie skills. The paper defines all three concepts interwoven into a program for teaching schizophrenics. It draws the conclusion that no cure for the pathology exists, but a combination of therapies can be helpful in having the schizophrenic function in society.
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"Throughout history mental disorders have plagued mankind without benefit of understanding or empathy. In fact one particular such mental disorder, i.e., schizophrenia, has long been misunderstood and mistreated. As a result of the misunderstanding of the disease fear and shame were often the hallmarks of those who were afflicted. At times those afflicted with the disease were tortured, burned at the stake as heretics, and even placed in "cleansing vats", all in the name of purifying the mind. Today, however, through a more compassionate and scientific understanding, schizophrenia has become a recognizable disease characterized by a "split" from rational thinking and emotion (Myers & Nguyen, 2001). Once must exercise caution, however, not to confuse and or associate schizophrenia with a split personality split personality as both are different maladies. "
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Mental Retardation and Motor Skills, 2001.
This is an overview of mental retardation and its affect on a person's motor skills.
1,235 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper is an in-depth look at the mental retardation and some of the different motor skill problems that plague those affected with this brain impairment. The author gives a broad definition of mental retardation in order to help the reader understand the terminology. The author looks at different types of mental retardation and the different motor skills affected by each type of disease. Rett Syndrome, or Cerebroatrophic Hyperammonemia, is mainly diagnosed in young girls and mostly affects the small motor skills. Meningitis and Down's syndrome or Trisomy 21, both affect a person's motor skills but it varies according to how severely the person in question is affected by the particular disease.
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"In this case, genetic anomalies are manifested in a wide variety of symptoms, including severe motor difficulties that affect both small and gross motor skills. Research and a variety of experiments with young children with this disease have found that very little can be done to alleviate these motor skills problems because the neurological damage is so extensive and so severe that it cannot be compensated for (Percy 81). In other words, while individuals can learn to compensate for motor-skills problems caused by the retardation brought about through neural damage, they cannot in some cases learn new adaptations fast enough to compensate for the speed in which new impairments occur (Perccy 83)."
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Elementary Motor Skills, 2004.
An examination of the way that motor skills in children can affect their social behavior.
2,310 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 71.95
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This paper explains that, even though children all develop at different stages, parents and care-givers need to be aware of the accepted norms and have their children assessed accordingly. The writer explains that children's social skills and confidence may be affected if their motor skills are far below those of their peers and discusses different methods of assessment and treatment for these problems.
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"Children develop physically and mentally at a known rate, with some individual variations. However, deficiencies in development can be ascertained through observation and testing and may be indicative of problems that need to be addressed by parents and medical or school personnel in order to bring the child up to the same level as his or her peers or to address underlying causes. The identification and prescription of elementary school students with gross motor deficiencies should be an ongoing process as children work their way through the early grades when diagnosis would do the most good for intervention to produce positive change."
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The Internet and Children's Motor Skills, 2005.
A look at the effects of the Internet on children's motor skills.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper examines the effects that the Internet has on the development of children's motor skills. The paper looks at the tasks children perform when using the Internet and discusses developmental stage theories.
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"Miller, in a discussion of developmental stage theories, points out that most major developmental psychologists state that children progress in both physical and cognitive growth through a series of phases or stages. Typically these stage theories hold that from about two to seven years children develop their motor skills. This has led some educators e.g. Drake Hirschbuhl to suggest that the sights and sounds of computers as well as the motions involved in typing and clicking with a..."
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Information Processing Model and Motor Skills, 2002.
A look at how the human nervous system reacts.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 53.95
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This six-page senior level paper on the Information Processing Model for the motor skills focuses on how the human nervous system performs internal processes on the information gathered in replication to stimuli from the external environment. It also reviews the perceptual process, the decision making process and the execution process.
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Motor Learning Performance, 2002.
A literature review of reinforcement in motor learning performance.
4,952 words (approx. 19.8 pages), 23 sources, MLA, $ 125.95
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This paper discusses how motor skills are smoothly timed muscular movements enabling procedures to be undertaken. There are four primary motor skill components?accuracy, speed, economy of effort and flexibility. Each of the four components of motor skill are essential to the automatization of a performance pattern. It examines through an extensive literature review how it has been found that motor skills can be learned or improved at any point during the life of an individual. The older a person is, however, the more difficult it is typically for a person to transfer motor skills into use. It looks at the views of different learning and behaviorist theories such as Pavlov and Skinner and proposes a study to evaluate the effect on motor learning performance of Alzheimer?s disease.
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"In acting on an organism from without, Skinner theorized that the reinforcement actions could be either positive or negative. Thus, depending upon the situation and upon the desired behavior, an appropriate stimulus might be either the introduction of a factor into an organism?s environment?a positive reinforcement, or the withdrawal of a factor from an organism?s environment?a negative reinforcement. Skinner (p. 143) also theorized that the tools of positive and negative reinforcement?satiation and deprivation?may increase the strength of many types of behaviors simultaneously. While feedback, referred to as knowledge of results in relation to motor movement skills development, is recognized as a critical factor in motor skills acquisition, the unrestricted application of such feedback is being questioned."
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E-Learning and Soft Skills, 2007.
This paper examines whether soft skills and sociopolitical awareness can be developed through e-education.
1,599 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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The paper discusses how soft skills are critical for the success of e-education-based students and how these skills are accentuated over time when students must rely on distant relationships in order to sustain and increase their performance in online programs. The paper examines e-education and its implications for learning and explains that teaching approaches that work well in person don't translate online easily. The paper also identifies the need to create interactive communication online despite major differences in time zones. The paper concludes that distance learning's growth potential needs to be seen relative to the challenges that this approach has today and in the future. The paper also shows how soft skills are critical for any student's long-term competitiveness in a career and they are necessary for excelling in a distance learning environment.
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E-Education and Its Implications on Learning
Global Reach of Web-Based Learning
Web-based Curriculum Development
Web-Based Learning Results and Outcomes
Summary and Conclusions
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"In Sloan Consortium (2005) there is ample evidence of distance learning programs reaching parity in terms of participation with in-person programs, and this in large part due to soft skills becoming more prevalent in their development as a result of greater student co-operation in e-education programs. Figure 1 shows this dynamic taking shape regarding the penetration of online courses relative to their in-class and in-person counterparts. 100% in Associates at the Graduate level, which Sloan Consortium defines as a market segment where for every in-person graduate program there is an online one available."
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Learning Social Skills in Virtual Worlds, 2008.
A discussion regarding the effects of on-line games on social skills.
1,609 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 52.95
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This paper addresses the effects that virtual worlds and, more specifically, massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) have on the individual's social skills. The paper asserts that it is crucial that we gain a better understanding of how such media can be embraced and or rejected by the broader community, or even tailored to better meet the needs of the learner, be it a learner in literacy or any other educational goal, including but not limited to social skills.
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"The exponential growth of the Internet has created an astronomical number of options for entertainment and knowledge attainment, right at the fingertips of any connected individual. One of the most important functions of the internet is that it creates a virtual world where interaction is possible, be it to seek obscure messages or not so obscure pastime opportunities within the confines of ones own home. The stress of this function is that without leaving home an individual, theoretically could live nearly their entire life. This as a theory has both positive and negative outcomes, many of which are yet to be realized and or studied from a sociological and or psychological perspective. (Williams, Ducheneaut, Li, Zhang,Yee, & Nickell, 2006. pp. 338-339)"
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General Motors and Honda Motors, 1993.
A comparison of the management theories and strategies of American and Japanese automobile firms.
3,600 words (approx. 14.4 pages), 21 sources, $ 127.95
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"This research will compare the management theories and strategies of General Motors in the United States and Honda Motor Co. in Japan. Policies regarding employee promotions, careers, and skills will be included in this paper.
Honda Motors has been long admired for its policy of making decisions by consensus.. However, recently, since the takeover of President Nobuhiko Kawamoto in June, 1990, this tradition has been changed. In the old system, an electric sign on the tenth floor of Honda's headquarters in Tokyo flagged down the location within the building of each of the company's 32 top executives. Lately, most of the lights have been dark, because Honda's new leader has by-passed its executives to get closer to employees, dealers, and suppliers. So radical is this approach that it totally repudiates the management principles of the company's..."
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Typing Skill Acquisition, 1994.
An analysis of typing as an example of motor skill learning.
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"Motor Skill Acquisition: Typing
The field of "motor skill learning" encompasses numerous areas of research. Typically, the term, "motor skill," refers to any skill which involves movement and the outcome of some action. The ability to engage in such behaviors generally comes through dynamic exploratory activity. This process is well illustrated by an analysis of typing skill acquisition.
Many activities in daily life require a significant degree of speed, precision, and forcefulness (Young, 1988, p. 1). Moreover, several of these abilities are not generally possessed by novices. Therefore, the more complex human behaviors require skill acquisition, or learning. Learning can be defined as a "process that results in a relatively permanent change in behavior brought on by experience" (Higgins, 1991, p. 134). The..."
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Learning Theories & Styles, 1996.
Examines learning theories (behaviorism, cognition), styles (divergers, convergers) & modes (experience, reflection), related to motor skills acquisition.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 19 sources, $ 79.95
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"There are four primary motor skill components. These components are accuracy, speed, economy of effort, and flexibility (Lee, 1988, pp. 201-215). Initially, accuracy is attained only at the expense of the other motor skill components. Flexibility is the last of the motor skill components typically acquired. Flexibility is acquired through the alteration of a newly acquired function with others already well established, and through the integration of features learned in previous stages (Christina & Bjork, 1991, pp. 23-56). Each of the four components of motor skill are essential to the automatization..."
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E-Learning With an M, 2006.
This paper examines a relatively new learning technique: Mobile (m)- learning, which is being developed to complement classroom learning by promoting thinking skills, processes and the application of learning in real world contexts.
1,008 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 35.95
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The writer of this paper explores the effectiveness as well as the development of the m-learning system. The m-learning project is 64 million Euro, three year, pan-European research and development program supported by the European Commission's Information Society Technologies program. The main distinction between electronic (e)-learning and m-learning is one of accessibility, affordability and portability. The m-learning project has demonstrated that this method of learning can be used as more than just a personal enhancement tool. This paper details how competitive and collaborative learning activities can be activated when conducted with a media board. This paper also discusses the downside of this new technology. According to experts, before the full potential of m-learning's rich content can be realized, the limited memory of mobile devices must be addressed.
Table of Contents:
M-Learning Philosophy
Remote Field Trips
The Technical Challenge
References
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"The m-Learning Project has demonstrated that m-learning can be used as more than just a personal enhancement tool. Competitive and collaborative learning activities can be activated when conducted with a Media Board. This tool allows users to divide their mobile phone/PDA screens into sectors containing various projects and communicators. Users send comments consisting of text, audio, pictures, and e-mails tailored to the sectors' different interests and levels. Comments may relate to solving problems competitively, communicating with team members collectively by phone, sending multimedia information to the Media Board, and editing the information on the Media Board into a complete multimedia presentation."
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