Improving Technology Integration In A Rural High School By Listening To Students\u27 Needs And Experiences

While schools have embraced the mantra of 21st century skills since the early 1990s and access to technology has become nearly ubiquitous, technology use in K-12 classrooms is still largely absent. This has created a situation where teachers are unsure of how to teach with technology and students are unsure how to learn with technology. This transformative mixed methods study sought to give students a voice to articulate their learning needs in relation to technology integration in schools. The study drew on rural high school students’ perceptions of technology use in K-12 classrooms by documenting students’ use of technology at school and at home, their use of 1:1 devices as a learning tool, and their perceptions of their own academic learning needs when using technology in the classroom. Data was collected through distribution of a survey and through student focus groups. Results indicate that students are not only capable of articulating their needs but have valuable observations about teaching and learning with technology. The student participants in this study noted difficulty with using technology absent of instruction or training, frustration using of technology resources that reinforced incorrect practice of skills, infrastructure and filtering obstacles that prevented independent learning, among other issues impacting their learning. Their observations were translated into recommendations for schools seeking to implement technology in the classroom including providing teachers with a framework for evaluating technology use, developing training programs for students, and addressing barriers such as connectivity and filtering issues that frustrate students and minimize their enthusiasm for technology use in the classroom

Innovation & Consensus Building With Traffic Simulation

This presentation showcases the use of traffic simulation to solve a complex mix of safety and operational problems within the Giant City Road corridor in Carbondale, Illinois. This case study demonstrates how state-of-the art operational analysis tools can be leveraged to not only develop innovative solutions to complex problems, but interact with agencies and local stakeholders to facilitate consensus

Employee Retention of the X and Y Generation Employees at ABC

The purpose of this Engineering Management Field Project is to gain a better understanding of how ABC is performing in the area of Employee Retention of generation X and Y employees. ABC is a high tech aerospace company that was established in the late 1940s’ to build engines for the United States Government. Throughout its history, it has survived the many government cuts by expanding and creating more innovative manufacturing designs and techniques. It has established itself as one of the leading technological production organizations for the U.S. government. It has led the way in science-based manufacturing helping the government as well as the commercial industry build products. Is ABC doing the right things to keep the generation X and Y employees? Do they know what they are losing? In a nation where a recession is beginning, can ABC afford to lose their best employees? What does ABC need to do to improve and retain good employees? What affect on retention does management have? How can hiring the right employees and orientating them improve a company’s employee retention? How do employee opportunities fit into employee retention? How can employers improve performance reviews to aid in the retention of employees? Employers must answer and then implement solutions to these questions to be successful at employee retention. Employers need to view employees as critical assets that cannot be replaced overnight. The purpose of this project is to answer these questions about ABC, which will help improve the bottom line of the company. It will also act as an improvement plan to better retain these younger generations. There are many things not done at ABC that could make the difference in staying competitive. Employee retention, especially of the key employees, is a major challenge that companies need to take more seriously. Many factors are critical to employee retention. Employers must use these factors to retain employees and make their company a top place to work. In an increasingly competitive market, employee retention can make or break companies

Trauma-Informed Supervision: The Supervisory Needs of Mental Health Therapists Engaged in Trauma-Related Work

We present the need for therapists who engage in trauma-specific work to receive trauma-informed supervision or consultation. This is based on the findings that the emotional labor required of trauma-specific work is high and increases a therapist’s risk for experiencing negative impacts from their work such as vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, unhelpful transference/countertransference, reminders of their own trauma, and burnout. Further, clients incur risks of receiving iatrogenic care when therapists engaged in trauma-related work are not given appropriate job related resources and/or receive ineffective supervision. We discuss a model for trauma-informed supervision, including supporting theory and initial guidelines for supervisors’ competence and activities. Specifically, we outline the knowledge and activities necessary for trauma supervisors to engage effectively in the clinical supervision of trauma sensitive cases and as advocates for therapists who engage in trauma sensitive work. We provide specific suggestions for supervisory intervention to reduce therapists’ negative experiences with trauma work and increase positive ones. Areas for future exploration conclude this initial dialogue, which is intended to be a catalyst for crafting an evolving framework for trauma-informed supervision

A Tribute to Miller Nichols

A slideshow describing the life and contributions of Miller Nichols that is displayed in the lobby of the Miller Nichols Learning Center

Efficient attack countermeasure selection accounting for recovery and action costs

The losses arising from a system being hit by cyber attacks can be staggeringly high, but defending against such attacks can also be costly. This work proposes an attack countermeasure selection approach based on cost impact analysis that takes into account the impacts of actions by both the attacker and the defender. We consider a networked system providing services whose functionality depends on other components in the network. We model the costs and losses to service availability from compromises and defensive actions to the components, and show that while containment of the attack can be an effective defense, it may be more cost-efficient to allow parts of the attack to continue further whilst focusing on recovering services to a functional state. Based on this insight, we build a countermeasure selection method that chooses the most cost-effective action based on its impact on expected losses and costs over a given time horizon. Our method is evaluated using simulations in synthetic graphs representing network dependencies and vulnerabilities, and performs well in comparison to alternatives

Physical Attractiveness, Opportunity, and Success in Everyday Exchange

28 pagesThe role of perceived physical attractiveness in everyday exchange is addressed using a laboratory paradigm that examines both play-versus- not-play and cooperate-versus-defect choices in an ecology of available prisoner’s dilemma games. The analysis considers the actions of both subject and other in encounters where exchange relationships are possible and include perceptions of others’ and own physical attractiveness. Results indicate that subjects are more likely to enter play and to cooperate with others they find attractive. Men who see themselves as more attractive more often cooperate than other men, while women who see themselves as more attractive less often cooperate than other women. In addition, subjects who rate themselves as highly attractive are more likely to cooperate with others they see as also highly attractive. Subjects expect others whom they see as attractive to cooperate more often. At the same time, the effect of perceived attractiveness on choice is independent of these expectations, supporting the hypothesis that attractiveness is a “taste” or “benefit” for actors in exchange relationships

Program Notes: The Newsletter of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America, volume 2, number 3

Convention Issue: Report from the President, They Showed Us in Missouri: A Personal View, Membership News,Regional News and Views: Celtic Writers, New Plays Down South, Bay Area New Play Development, LMDA Responds to McNally, Profiles in Dramaturgy: Richard Pettengill, American Developmental Theater, On the Western Front, New Play Venues in New York City, and Poses and Postures in the Southeast. Issue editors: Richard E. Kramer, Jeffery Lawson, and Laurence Maslonhttps://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdareview/1004/thumbnail.jp

Flow induced pulsation caused by corrugated tubes

ABSTRACT Corrugated tubes can produce a tonal noise when used for gas transport, for instance in the case of flexible risers. The whistling sound is generated by shear layer instability due to the boundary layer separation at each corrugation. This whistling is examined by investigating the frequency, amplitude and onset of the pulsations generated by 2" artificially corrugated tubes and cable feeds. Special attention is given to the influence of the geometry of the corrugations and to the influence of the boundary conditions of the tubes. Two distinct modes are measured. One high mode with a typical Strouhal number Sr=0.35 and one with a Strouhal number of Sr=

Reading Maud’s remains: Tennyson, geological processes, and palaeontological reconstructions

As Tennyson's “little Hamlet ,” Maud (1855) posits a speaker who, like Hamlet, confronts the ignominious fate of dead remains. Maud's speaker contemplates such remains as bone, hair, shell, and he experiences his world as one composed of hard inorganic matter, such things as rocks, gems, flint, stone, coal, and gold. While Maud's imagery of “stones, and hard substances” has been read as signifying the speaker's desire “unnaturally to harden himself into insensibility” (Killham 231, 235), I argue that these substances benefit from being read in the context of Tennyson's wider understanding of geological processes. Along with highlighting these materials, the text's imagery focuses on processes of fossilisation, while Maud's characters appear to be in the grip of an insidious petrification. Despite the preoccupation with geological materials and processes, the poem has received little critical attention in these terms. Dennis R. Dean, for example, whose Tennyson and Geology (1985) is still the most rigorous study of the sources of Tennyson's knowledge of geology, does not detect a geological register in the poem, arguing that by the time Tennyson began to write Maud, he was “relatively at ease with the geological world” (Dean 21). I argue, however, that Maud reveals that Tennyson was anything but “at ease” with geology. While In Memoriam (1851) wrestles with religious doubt that is both initiated, and, to some extent, alleviated by geological theories, it finally affirms the transcendence of spirit over matter. Maud, conversely, gravitates towards the ground, concerning itself with the corporal remains of life and with the agents of change that operate on all matter. Influenced by his reading of geology, and particularly Charles Lyell's provocative writings on the embedding and fossilisation of organic material in strata in his Principles of Geology (1830–33) volume 2, Tennyson's poem probes the taphonomic processes that result in the incorporation of dead remains and even living flesh into the geological system