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Complete 1 page APA formatted essay: Alcohol.

It affects the central nervous system.

The human body eliminates the alcohol in three different ways metabolism, evaporation and excretion. Since the excretion of alcohol is done through tears, sweat, saliva, urine and semen. On the other hand when the blood circulates the alcohol into the lungs it is evaporated through ones breath which can be measured through breath sample test (Alcohol and the human body 101). For DUI, these physical changes allow police officers to investigate an individual. The concentration of alcohol in blood shows in fact the same symptoms as cocaine, heroin, and other narcotics. The drug crimes include drug trafficking, possession of drug with an intention to distribute or manufacture.

A level of alcohol in the blood content can be measured by blood test, urine test or by breath testing. Blood test is more expensive and intrusive but one of the most accurate methods while breath testing is cheaper and inaccurate ways of testing alcohol content because results can vary depending upon certain factors (Alcohol and the human body

 

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 Guided Response: Respond to at least two classmates’ posts. Compare your impressions of TEDEd and the “Be Sure To” strategy. How did your perceptions differ? What new ideas might you have gotten from their analysis of each? Provide specific feedback regarding their assessment of the “Be Sure To” strategy. 

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The TedEd lessons promote student engagement because they are interesting, short, and engaging.  They ask for students to participate and think outside of yes/no questions and paper assignments.  Although these lessons are not directly linked to the standards I typically teach, it is easy to connect them and get the students thinking critically about how one thing lead to another or how the events connect to standards.  Like in the TedEd lesson I explored, “The History of Video Games.”  I thought this would get my boys really engaged in the lesson right out the gate.  For my Critical Thinking class, I teach lessons on globalization and how we are becoming more connected.  I would show the TedEd video to the students as a warmup and ask them how video games are a common world language.  We could then go into the larger lesson of global citizenship.  For my class, I would have this video link in a task page on Its Learning, our online learning platform.  This lesson would be an example of ISTE standard 2b, learning to make safe online connections. 

What I learned from “The History of Video Games,” is that they were originally created for the military.  I thought that was interesting and I felt that many of our students would also think that was interesting.  The evolution of video games went from military, to science lab, to arcade, and then home.  This shows students that just because something is created for one reason, it may have a larger purpose.  I thought this lesson had many broader themes. 

I think lessons like this are important when paired with a rubric because the rubric allows students to see what they are supposed to learn from something, instead of having to assume or guess (Brookhart, 2013).  By doing this, the students are able to guide their own learning, and the teacher will be able to assess for learning.  If a rubric is designed with the ending in mind, the student may have confusion of what should go into the assignment or not understand how much or the depth of knowledge they should take from each piece of information.  Designing a rubric for learning will allow the student to guide themselves into turning in a product that the teacher can grade based on what is understood, and in that case, she can go back and fill in the missing pieces with the student and know if she should remediate, reteach, or move forward. 

Side note:  I just created a rubric TODAY with this whole lesson in mind and I am quite impressed with myself.

Brookhart, S. M. (2013). How to create and use rubrics for formative assessment and grading. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development. Retrieved from http:// McCarthy 

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The lessons in TEDEd promote student engagement when you go onto their website, you can watch videos. If you give your students the website link, this gives them the options to find things that they are interested in researching such as science, math, art, language, and more. Each subject area has many videos to scroll through and they all vary.

TEDEd has four options accompanying the video. The options are watching, think, dig deeper, and discuss. Watch is simply watching the video. Think is answering multiple choice questions. Dig deeper gives more information beyond the video and even some information that can relate to you personally. Finally, discuss is for the teacher to use and students to post. It’s a guided discussion, which can be the assignment (TEDEd Lessons Worth Sharing, n.d.).

When you use the ‘think’ option that relates to the video, you find the correct answers after selecting the multiple choice. This allows the students and the teacher to assess the answers. The discussion option which is the guided discussion allows the teacher to assess the student and how they are attaining the information.

The first way you can incorporate a TEDEd lesson into a typical class period is by offering your students time on the computer. Then, you can give them directions to find the video you are intended to be your focus of the lesson. After that, you add your questions, discussion prompts and additional resources. Another way you can incorporate a TEDEd lesson into a typical class period is by taking a lesson off of TEDEd and then customizing it yourself, an option found on the TEDEd lessons website. According to NETS-S, the third standard is “Technology Productivity Tools Students: a. use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity. b. use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, preparing publications, and producing other creative works” (ISTE National Educational Technology Standards adopted by the Oklahoma State Department of Education, n.d., Technology Productivity Tools). This standard aligns with the assignment as it uses technology to promote learning and productivity.

            I explored the lesson titled, “Why We Say “OK”. It was a very simple lesson that taught me about the history of the English Language and how acronyms were started and later turned into other words. The acronym “OK” actually started out as Oll Korrect, meaning all correct (n.d.). “OK” has changed over the years from meaning all correct to meaning that you’re doing fine if someone asks you, “How are you?” and your reply is, “OK”.

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Brookhart suggests using student self-graded rubrics as a way of students determining what they need to do in order to do well on the assignment. Brookhart suggests asking students to ask clarifying questions about the rubric, ask the students to restate the rubric in their own words, ready-steady-pair-share, student co-constructed rubrics, and ask students to match samples of work to rubrics (Brookhart, 2013). Julie Manley, an 8th grade ELA teacher, uses the “be sure to” method as the last step in an assignment. The “be sure to” is a goal statement (Teaching Channel, 2013). Both of these strategies support the integration of multiple levels of thinking for students and the teacher’s ability to assess for learning. All of Brookhart suggestions support multiple levels of learning as there are so many different options ranging from working on your own to working with others to matching items and more. The teacher can assess learning when asking the students to restate the rubric in their own words if they can understand the rubric or not. The teacher has an idea of what they are looking for and it’s the student’s responsibility to find that answer. The “be sure to” statement supports multiple levels of learning because it is individualized for each student. Not all students will have the same answer because it is personalized for something the student wants to achieve. The teacher can then assess for learning because they are finding more personal information about the student and how they learn.

References

Brookhart, S. M. (2013). How to create and use rubrics for formative assessment and grading. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development. Retrieved from http:// National Educational Technology Standards adopted by the Oklahoma State Department of Education. (n.d.). National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S) [PDF].

Teaching Channel. (2013). “Be sure to”: A powerful reflection strategy. Retrieved from https:// Lessons Worth Sharing. (n.d.). Create lessons worth sharing around YouTube videos. Retrieved from http://ed.ted.com/series

(n.d.). Retrieved January 13, 2019, from https://ed.ted.com/featured/Js68j4Os#watch

 

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The Fig Technologies Executive Leadership Council (ELC) has received several requests for transfer to the United States from nations of diminished tolerance. The ELC has asked you to develop a presentation briefly explaining the history of diversity-based legislation.

In your presentation, describe the challenges of legislating diversity, and compare historical legislation of diverse populations to more recent diversity legislation. Also, explain how diversity legislation impacts ethnic, orientation, and gender groups as well as those of age, appearance, and perceived disability.

At least two additional resources should be used. All sources should be cited and referenced properly using APA formatting. 

The presentation should consist of a title slide, a minimum of 10 slides of content, and a reference slide. Since this is a presentation, at least one slide should include a graphic or chart to present information.

 

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A Better Data Plan: Well-Established TELCOs Leverage Data Warehousing and Analytics to Stay on Top in a Competitive Industry

Mobile service providers (i.e., Telecommunication Companies, or TELCOs in short) that helped trigger the explosive growth of the industry in the mid-to late-1990s have long reaped the benefits of being first to market. But to stay competitive, these companies must continuously refine everything from customer

service to plan pricing. In fact, veteran carriers face many of the same challenges that up-and-coming carriers do: retaining customers, decreasing costs, fine-tuning pricing models, improving customer sat-isfaction, acquiring new customers, and understand-ing the role of social media in customer loyalty.

Highly targeted data analytics play an ever-more-critical role in helping carriers secure or improve their standing in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Here’s how some of the world’s leading providers are creating a strong future based on solid business and customer intelligence.

Customer Retention

It’s no secret that the speed and success with which a provider handles service requests directly affects customer satisfaction and, in turn, the propensity to churn. But getting down to which factors have the greatest impact is a challenge. “If we could trace the steps involved with

each process, we could understand points of failure and acceleration,” notes Roxanne Garcia, Manager of the Commercial Operations Center for Telefónica de Argentina. “We could measure work-flows both within and across functions, anticipate rather than react to performance indicators, and improve the overall satisfaction with onboarding new customers.” The company’s solution was its traceability

project, which began with 10 dashboards in 2009. It has since realized $2.4 million in annualized revenues and cost savings, shortened customer provisioning times, 30%.

Cost Reduction

Staying ahead of the game in any industry depends, in large part, on keeping costs in line. For France’s Bouygues Telecom, cost reduction came in the form of automation. Aladin, the company’s Teradata-based marketing operations management system, automates marketing/communications collateral production. It delivered more than $1 million in savings in a single year while tripling their e-mail campaign and content production.

“The goal is to be more productive and

responsive, to simplify teamwork, [and] to stand-ardize and protect our expertise,” notes Catherine Corrado, the company’s Project Lead and Retail Communications Manager. “[Aladin lets] team mem-bers focus on value-added work by reducing low-value tasks. The end result is more quality and more creative [output].”

and reduced customer defections by

An unintended but very welcome benefit of Aladin is that other departments have been inspired to begin deploying similar projects for everything from call center support to product/offer launch processes.

Customer Acquisition With market penetration near or above 100% in many countries, thanks to consumers who own multiple devices, the issue of new customer acqui-sition is no small challenge. Pakistan’s largest car-rier, Mobilink, also faces the difficulty of operating in a market where 98% of users have a prepaid plan that requires regular purchases of additional minutes. “Topping up, in particular, keeps the revenues strong and is critical to our company’s growth,” says Umer Afzal, Senior Manager,

BI. “Previously we

lacked the ability to enhance this aspect of incremental growth. Our sales information model gave us that ability because it helped the distribution team plan sales tactics based on smarter data-driven strategies that keep our suppliers [of SIM cards, scratch cards, and electronic top-up capability] fully stocked.” As a result, Mobilink has not only grown sub-scriber recharges by 2% but also expanded new customer acquisition by 4% and improved the profitability of those sales by 4%.

Social Networking The expanding use of social networks is changing how many organizations approach everything from customer service to sales and marketing. More carriers are turning their attention to social networks to better understand and influence customer behaviour.

Mobilink has initiated a social network analysis project that will enable the company to explore the concept of viral marketing and identify key influencers who can act as brand ambassadors to cross-sell products. Velcom is looking for similar key influencers as well as low-value customers whose social value can be leveraged to improve existing relationships. Meanwhile, Swisscom is looking to combine the social network aspect of customer behavior with the rest of its analysis over the next several months.  Rise to the Challenge

Although each market presents its own unique challenges, most mobile carriers spend a great deal of time and resources creating, deploying, and refining plans to address each of the challenges outlined here. The good news is that just as the industry and mobile technology have expanded and improved over the years, so also have the data analytics solu-tions that have been created to meet these challenges head on.

Sound data analysis uses existing customer,

business, and market intelligence to predict and influence future behaviors and outcomes. The end result is a smarter, more agile, and more successful

approach to gaining market share and improving profitability.

Questions for Discussion

1. What are the main challenges for TELCOs?

2. How can data warehousing and data analytics help TELCOs in overcoming their challenges?

3. Why do you think TELCOs are well suited to take full advantage of data analytics?

 

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