Literacy Gatekeepers in the Ontario Education System. Why ESL Students Fail? A Bordieuan Perspective

Ontario\u27s education system aims to improve children\u27s literacy levels who hail from diverse backgrounds. Schools must tailor their program layout to their students’ unique needs. Immersion is one of them. As with submersion, instruction occurs in the second language (L2), but there are significant differences. ESL students experience linguistic barriers. According to Migration Matters (June 2017), by 2022, 78% of job openings will require some post-secondary training or university degree. Many immigrants do not have the skills necessary to succeed, and these percentages have not improved. There is a widening incongruence between the complexity of the needs of ESL learners and the availability of ESL [English as a Second Language] services in Canadian schools. School boards across Canada have steadily reduced ESL services over the years (Nichols et al., 2020). Schools are not meeting the language needs of immigrant youth in Ontario, where 29.1% of the population, the highest of any province, is foreign-born (Government of Ontario, 2017). In 2017, 63% of Ontario\u27s elementary schools and 58% of secondary schools had English language learners (ELLs). However, only 38% of English-language elementary schools had ESL teachers (People for Education, 2017). 20% of elementary schools and 31% of secondary schools have no formal process for identifying ELL students (People for Education, 2015), which is the first step to placing students in ELL services. Students’ diverse needs must be met for them to acquire necessary literacy skills. Literacy is a civil right—no one should leave the school system as an illiterate person

Keeping busy learners informed: email is most useful for medical residents!

Background: Educators need to ensure trainees have access to the rotation orientation information they need in the most effective way possible. We wanted to find the best method to distribute this information. Methods: We provided post-graduate medical trainees rotating through the Pediatric Emergency Medicine program at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa, Canada, the regular rotation information package three ways: email, online, and paper. We surveyed them to find out which method(s) they used and which they found most useful. Results: All traineeswere able to access the electronic orientation package via email and most found this method useful. Most also found the paper package distributed at the orientation helpful. Few accessed the online wiki site. Conclusion: Using email is efficient and effective and can save both the time and cost of producing paper packages. The wiki site was not used frequently in our cohort, but may be worth future exploration

Storytelling is Scaffolding -Literally

This is my paper, "Storytelling is Scaffolding: The Advantages and Implementations of Bilingual Storytelling for Youth," which I wrote for IS506 Youth Services Librarianship. I'm a kinesthetic learner, which means I learn by doing something physically (rather than a visual or auditory learner). It means I do some crazy stuff like writing 15'9" papers (that's right, I measured) because I can't comprehend it when it's on a screen. I won't lie, it's a long process, but it allows for reflection on my topic while I work. I would do well at Hogwarts, where professors assign a specific length instead of a word or page count!Ope

Role of cathepsin A and cathepsin C in the regulation of glycosidase activity

Increased tissue activity of cathepsin A and cathepsin C can be observed in many pathological conditions. It is associated with an enhanced degradation of glycosaminoglycans, proteoglycans, and glycoproteins, and results in their decreased tissue content. Cathepsin C releases the glycosidases from complexes formed with cathepsin A, and reinstates their activity. In this review a current state of knowledge is presented concerning the regulation of selected glycosidases activity by cathepsin A (EC 3.4.16.1) and C (EC 3.4.14.1)

Comparative studies on the fatty acid profile and volatile compounds of fallow deer and beef fermented sausages without nitrite produced with the addition of acid whey

This study aims to improve knowledge on fermented beef and fallow deer sausages and the effect of nitrite elimination and the addition of freeze dried acid whey on the fatty acid profile and volatile compounds. Three different formulations within each of the two product groups, made of beef and fallow deer meat, respectively, were prepared: control sample with sodium nitrite, sample without nitrite, and sample without nitrite and with the addition of freeze-dried acid whey powder (0.7%). After production, the sausages were subjected to analysis including proximate chemical composition, pH and water activity, Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substance (TBARS), fatty acid profile, and volatile compound determination. The fermented sausages were characterized by an average pH and water activity in the range of 5.23–5.79 and 0.910–0.918, respectively. Fallow deer sausages were characterized by a higher content of saturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids in comparison to beef sausages. The elimination of nitrite did not significantly affect the amount of volatile compounds in fermented sausages. However, the effect of the freeze-dried acid whey powder addition on the amount of some volatile compounds in uncured sausages was observed, in particular, that derived from bacterial metabolism.Axencia Galega de Innovación | Ref. IN607A2019 / 01Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA) | Ref. CPD2016-0030Programa Iberoamericano de Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo (CYTED) | Ref. 119RT056

Zmiany ułatwiające prowadzenie działalności gospodarczej

Elektronizacja obrotu prawnego i gospodarczego w Polsce korzystnie wpływa na funkcjonowanie rynku. Z badań wynika, że beneficjentami wprowadzanych zmian są przede wszystkim przedsiębiorstwa, dzięki oszczędności czasu i zmniejszaniu się kosztów transakcyjnych. W artykule omówiono wybrane inicjatywy dotyczące zachodzącego obecnie procesu wprowadzania e-administracji oraz e-sądu

Building Bridges Between Community Based Organizations and Technology: Exploring Tools for Community Participation and Economic Development for the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative

Technology plays a vital role in public and private businesses, governments, and organizations, and can be especially useful to organizations that may know the least about it. Unfortunately, many Community Based Organizations (CBOs) have traditionally been unable to embrace contemporary tools due to lack of capacity, time or money. This paper begins to identify issues related to the technology gap faced by CBOs in a case study that examines community economic empowerment for the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative® (DSNI). The problem was approached through a community-university partnership between the Cornell University CRP 607 GIS Workshop Class (Sibley Consulting) and DSNI. One of the main technological tools used in bridging this gap was the use of geographic information systems (GIS). With an increase in GIS capability, DSNI can collect, manage, analyze and visualize neighborhood data, thus providing simple but powerful knowledge to the community. A geodatabase should be created where new and existing data can be stored, updated, and utilized repetitively. The geodatabase will allow DSNI to manipulate the data for a wide range of uses such as evaluating neighborhood trends for economic development. This classroom experiment provided students with an opportunity to provide professional technology services as a ‘mock’ consulting team. However, all of the data, maps and geospatial and other web-based technology evaluations will be utilized by DSNI and will have an immediate impact on the future of the Dudley neighborhood. This report is an educational tool for DSNI in order to evaluate the future database design and community GIS application. This report can also be seen as a model by which other community-university teams can measure their successful implementation to create a resident led community database information management system. A series of base maps which depict existing conditions along with secondary data resources have been used to evaluate the Dudley Neighborhood in Roxbury and North Dorchester, Massachusetts