The document discusses how modern life has brought higher buildings, wider highways, and more possessions but also less enjoyment, smaller families, less judgement, and poorer health. It encourages the reader to spend more time with loved ones, enjoy life's pleasures without delay, and appreciate each day as special. The final lines warn that tomorrow is not guaranteed so one should tell loved ones how they feel today.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
3. 我们消耗极多,享受到的却很少 We spend more, but enjoy less. 我们住的房屋大了,但我们的家庭成员却越来越少了 We have bigger houses, but smaller families. 我们有了更多的妥协余地,可时间却少了 We have more compromises, but less time. 我们拥有了更多的知识,但我们的判断力却差了 We have more knowledge, but less judgement. 我们有了更多的药品,可我们的健康状况却不尽如人意 We have more medicines, but less health.
4. 我们拥有的财富倍增,但其价值却减少了 We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. 我们谈论得很多,但我们所爱的却很少,我们的仇恨也更多了 We talk much, we love only a little, and we hate too much.
5. 我们可以往返月球,但却很难迈出一步去亲近我们的左亲右邻 We reached the Moon and came back, but we find it troublesome to cross our own street and meet our neighbors. 我们可以征服 太空,却征服不了我们的内心 We have conquered the outer space, but not our inner space.
6. 我们的收入增加了,但我们的道德却少了 We have higher income, but less morals. 我们的时代更加之自由了,而我们拥有的快乐时光却越来越少了 These are times with more liberty, but less joy. 我们有了更多的食品供应,但我们所能得到的营养却越来越少了 We have much more food, but less nutrition.
7. 现在每个家庭都可以有双份的收入,但离婚的现象却越来越多了 These are the days in which it takes two salaries for each home, but divorces increase. 我们可以有越来越精致的住房,但同时我们也有了更多破碎的家庭 These are times of finer houses, but more broken homes.
9. 不要将你的东西为了某一个特别的时刻而预留着,因为你生活的每一天都是那么特别 You do not keep anything for a special occasion, because every day that you live is a special occasion . 坐在你家的房屋前廊,多读一些书,去寻找更多的知识,以赞美的眼光去享受你眼前的风景,不要带有任何功利的想法 Search for knowledge, read more, sit on your front porch and admire the view without paying attention to your needs.
11. 生活就是由一连串快乐时光组成的时光链,我们不仅仅是为了生存而生存 Life is a chain of moments of enjoyment; not only about survival. 举起你珍藏的水晶高脚杯吧,不要吝啬洒上你最好的香水,任何时候你想用就享用吧 Use your crystal goblets. Do not save your best perfume, and use it every time you feel you want it.
12. 从你的词汇库中移去那些所谓的“有那么一天”或者是“某一天” Remove from your vocabulary phrases like “one of these days” and “someday”. 你曾打算有那么一天要写的信,请今天就写吧! Let’s write that letter we thought of writing “one of these days”.
13. 请告诉我们的家人和朋友,我们是多么得爱他们 Let’s tell our families and friends how much we love them. 不要延迟任何可以给你生活带来欢笑和快乐的事情 Do not delay anything that adds laughter and joy to your life. 每一天、每一小时、每一分钟都是那么特别 Every day, every hour, and every minute is special. 因为你不知道这是否是最后一刻 And you don’t know if it will be your last.