Vision for Christian Education: Believing is Seeing

This article was prepared in conjunction with the eleventh annual B. J. Haan Lecture Series held Spring 1994 at Dordt College

“We Can Do This At Our School!” Place-based Education, Literacy, & Learning

This article highlights the power of using place-based education (PBE) in a K-8 school to support and extend students\u27 literacy and learning. Through PBE, teachers learn to use their local places such as playgrounds, neighborhoods, parks, streams, forests, and urban centers as contexts to make connections and facilitate learning. Moreover, as seen in the examples provided throughout this article, PBE empowers teachers and students to study and read the world, integrate knowledge across disciplines, write for authentic purposes and audiences, create and share narratives connected to local places, and engage in and share research. As a result, students’ excitement for learning grows as they see their school grounds and community as an extension of their classrooms, with access to more texts, learning, and opportunities for positive impacts

What's Possible with Personalized Learning? An Overview of Personalized Learning for Schools, Families & Communities

What's Possible with Personalized Learning?—a report from the International Association for K–12 Online Learning (iNACOL)—explores how personalized learning compares to traditional learning, what it looks like in schools, and ways that parents, families, and communities can get involved to support this transformation in their schools. Personalized learning is tailored to the each student's "strengths, needs and interests." As the iNACOL report states, "Students have 'voice and choice' in determining what, how, when and where the learning occurs. Teachers provide the flexibility and supports to ensure mastery of the highest standards possible.

Behavioral Health and Performance Operations During the Space Shuttle Program

Prior to the Columbia STS 107 disaster in 2003, the Johnson Space Center s Behavioral Health and Performance Group (BHP) became involved in Space Shuttle Operations on an as needed basis, occasionally acting as a consultant and primarily addressing crew-crew personality conflicts. The BHP group also assisted with astronaut selection at every selection cycle beginning in 1991. Following STS 107, an event that spawned an increased need of behavioral health support to STS crew members and their dependents, BHP services to the Space Shuttle Program were enhanced beginning with the STS 114 Return to Flight mission in 2005. These services included the presence of BHP personnel at STS launches and landings for contingency support, a BHP briefing to the entire STS crew at L-11 months, a private preflight meeting with the STS Commander at L-9 months, and the presence of a BHP consultant at the L-1.5 month Family Support Office briefing to crew and family members. The later development of an annual behavioral health assessment of all active astronauts also augmented BHP s Space Shuttle Program specific services, allowing for private meetings with all STS crew members before and after each mission. The components of each facet of these BHP Space Shuttle Program support services will be presented, along with valuable lessons learned, and with recommendations for BHP involvement in future short duration space mission

Long Term Behavioral Health Surveillance of Former Astronauts at the NASA Johnson Space Center

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Clinical evaluation of glucagon by continuous infusion in the treatment of low cardiac output states

A continuous infusion of glucagon in an average dose of 4 mg. per hour over several days produced distinct improvement in the clinical state of 12 of 16 patients. Improvement was noted by an increase in blood pressure and urinary output and decrease in dyspnea, pulmonary rales, diaphoresis, and peripheral edema when present. Serum potassium must be carefully monitored. The rise in blood glucose has not been a clinical problem. No cardiac arrhythmias were induced by glucagon, and as cardiac function improved, the heart rate usually decreased. Nausea was the most frequent side effect, but no toxic effects or tachyphylaxis were observed. Long-term therapy with glucagon infusion is both safe and highly efficacious in selected patients with severe cardiovascular disease states and is the treatment of choice in cardiac decompensation secondary to beta-blocking agents.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/32778/1/0000151.pd

Transferring an Outcome-Oriented Learning Architecture to an IT Learning Game

Schmitz, B., Klemke, R., Totschnig, M., Czauderna, A., & Specht, M. (2011). Transferring an Outcome-Oriented Learning Architecture to an IT Learning Game. In C. D. Kloos, D. Gillet, R. M. Crespo Carcía, F. Wild, & M. Wolpers (Eds.), Towards Ubiquitous Learning: 6th European Conference on Technology Anhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2011 (pp. 483-488). September, 20-23, 2011, Palermo, Italy. LNCS 6964; Heidelberg, Berlin: Springer.Today’s technology enhanced learning scenarios focus on outcome-oriented delivery of learning processes, contents, and services. Also, learners increasingly demand for innovative and motivating learning scenarios that match their habits of using media. The European project ICOPER researches outcome-oriented learning infrastructures for higher education contexts. The German BMBF-project SpITKom aims at transferring such approaches to basic qualification. Based on a Browser Game, it uses ICOPER’s technical infrastructure which combines learning object metadata repositories, learning outcome repositories, learning design repositories and learner profile repositories. This paper initially depicts the technical infrastructure of an outcome-oriented learning scenario that was developed in the course of ICOPER and then outlines its transformation to the game-based learning approach as realized in the course of SpITKom.ICOPER, SPITKO

Neuropsychological Testing of Astronauts

The Spaceflight Cognitive Assessment Tool for Windows (WinSCAT) is a computer program that administers a battery of five timed neuro-cognitive tests. WinSCAT was developed to give astronauts an objective and automated means of assessing their cognitive functioning during space flight, as compared with their own baseline performances measured during similar prior testing on the ground. WinSCAT is also intended for use by flight surgeons to assess cognitive impairment after exposure of astronauts to such cognitive assaults as head trauma, decompression sickness, and exposure to toxic gas. The tests were selected from among a group of tests, denoted the Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metrics, that were created by the United States Navy and Army for use in evaluating the cognitive impairment of military personnel who have been subjected to medication or are suspected to have sustained brain injuries. These tests have been validated in a variety of clinical settings and are now in the public domain. The tests are presented in a Microsoft Windows shell that facilitates administration and enables immediate reporting of test scores in numerical and graphical forms