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However, this should not be the case because it compromises the whole point of summer assignments. If students were to create them, the content of the assignments would not be as helpful. Summer projects are not necessarily about being enjoyable. Their purpose is to ensure that students do not become to accustomed to d...
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For example, if there was a summer project for a chemistry class, the teacher would want to develop it so that it relates to the upcoming curriculum and provides a good introduction for the year. So, perhaps the teacher would assign work on the basic topics of chemistry, namely what an atom is and what the parts are, t...
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It can be a shock, for some students, starting the school year blindly without any hints as to how the teacher is going to relay the curriculum to them. For example, one teacher may enjoy using textbooks to teach the subject, so he or she might assign pages to read or even a problem set for the summer. On the other han...
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Along with a summer assignment, a teacher could attach a rubric, for example, to clearly state what he or she expects out of a student. They can highlight how much effort the class requires, and state that students should put pride and care into all of their assignments throughout the year. If these expectations are no...
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teachers should design summer projects in order to prepare students for the year, introduce themselves and their style of teaching, and set the expectations for the school year. Think about the real purpose of summer assignments: to make sure students are still learning over break, and though summer assignments may not...
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Some schools require that students complete projects over the summer. In my personal experience, they have all been teacher-designed,
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what if summer projects were mostly student-designed? The more you think about it the more it makes sense.
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more interesting and engaging for students,
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a compelling scientific foundation for its effects on childrens' learning.
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This is mostly due to the fact that students can choose the things that better relate to their interests. They become interested in both the project and the relevant part of the curriculum. Applying the information you learned in previous school year is an excellent way to test what you've learned - and applying it to ...
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The opportunity for involvement and motivation offered by student-designed projects (especially during the summer) is great enough that I believe it would be worth it for teachers to adopt in place of more traditional assignments.
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Some people say summer projects have to support the student for the rigor of the following school year, and that student designed projects will not demand the same skills needed to prepare them for the next year. Therefore, teachers instead of students should make summer assignments
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But to the contrary, a large body of evidence supports that with minimal guidance from the teacher over the summer, taking longer breaks from hard and tiresome work isn't that detrimental for your learning.
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While I realize that student-designed projects may fall short in providing the work ethic needed for the following year, I don't think that's the point of summer work.
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The point is that you take a long break to refresh you for the next year so you don't burnout (e. g. senioritis). Furthermore, most people figure out how to keep up with the workload by the end of the following year anyways. And, even if students make it slightly easier, it is still reflective the curriculum - and in t...
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Because of the clear benefits of avoiding burnout and spacing, it's best if students take advantage of the freedom how they feel, so long as they engage with something
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Student-designed projects that can spark student's creativity also help teachers, since it's much easier and safer for them just to let a student create it themselves. Sure, there is a chance the teacher might get it right, but it's not guaranteed. And finally, there's nothing to lose. Yes, kids might cram it in the we...
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Think about walking into your second period class and you have a test. This is a test that you have to pass but you have no clue what the test is going to be over. You sit down and your heart starts pounding so fast that you feel sick to your stomach. You're so scared to take this test because your not sure if you're g...
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The Facial Action Coding System is a 3D computer model of the face. It uses your facial muscles to determand how your feeling. For example if you are feeling anger the computer would know because your orbicularis oris tightens your lips to show the anger. This device would be able to be showed by a real face or even a ...
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Technology is a valuable resource for students. The new technology called the "Facial Actions Coding System" would be great for students.
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This is something that will be able to read your face and let people know if your bored, tired, happy, sad, and it even shows your fears. If your stuggling on a test or an assignment it will give you help and walk you through some of the problems. This would help many students understand the concept and test scores wou...
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According to the article people are able to tell if you are having a bad day.
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People can not tell what is wrong with you just because you look sad or upset. Vinci studied human anatomy to help paint facial muscles that can convey certain emotions. If you look at the painting of Mona Lisa you would be able to tell from her facial strututres of what type of mood she is trying to show. When looking...
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The FACS would benfit alot of students in the world.
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Do you think this would be a good idea? In the reading Making Mona Lisa Smile by Nick D'Alto, Mona Lisa is mostly happy a little disgusted and a little fearful and a little angry this is about mixed emotions and coming up with a new technology about reading yoiur emotions and calculating them for you to see whos really...
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First off, Mona Lisa is mostly always happy and she wanted to come up with a way to see if a lot of school students are happy or just faking there happiniss and hiding there real emotions.
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there is this three D computer that can take calculations on your emotions and tell you if you are truly happy or hiding your real emotions.
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secendly, theres ba computer that contructs a three-D model of the face and all 44 major muscles in the model must move around like the human muscles. there are six basic emotions happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear and sadness the three-D computer can detect all six of these emotions and calculate the emotions a...
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you can tell when someone is truly smiling because there muscles in there face move a serten way and if it is a fake smile your muscles move a different way therefore you can tell if the smile is fake or not.
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Therefore, yes i think this new technology would work because the three-D model can detect the true feelings you have and calculate it
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i think you shoukd try this if you ever get a chance.
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Venus, otherwise known as the "Evening Star," is one of the more challenging planets to examine closely in our solar system. While this plant is often called Earth's twin, it is vastly different in terms of environment and hospitability. Despite being the closest planet to Earth at times, no spaceship has touched down ...
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The author supports this claim by stating that the insight to be gained is significant and by offering methods for obtaining these insights despite the danger that is readily appearant.
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Venus is one of the most challenging planets to examine due to its very extreme environment
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Paragraph 3 of the article is all about the extreme environment that Venus presents. Venus has temperatures over 800 degress Fahrenheit, an atmospheric pressure 90 times greater than that on Earth, erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and other obstacles that prove challenging for scientists to overcome. Additiona...
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NASA is one organization that has been developing particularly interesting ideas about how to further study Venus.
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They are considering a blimp-like vehicle that would float above the suface of Venus to meet the challenges presented. This blimp would avoid the poor conditions of the Venusian landscape by floating some thirty miles above the surface. Conditions around the blimp would still be slightly hot, but the pressure and toxic...
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According to the article, astronomers are interested in Venus because it was likely the most Earth-like planet in the solar system at one point.
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Venus used to be covered in oceans and supported life. Additionally, Venus still has features that are similar to Earth's such as a rocky sediment with valleys, mountains, and craters. Insight into the Venusian landscape would further allow astronomers to determine how closely related Earth and Venus were. The author a...
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The author of this article supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers by stating the insight to be gained from further exploring Venus and by presenting new methods that are making new insights possible. The danger of Venus is extensive due to the high temperatures, extreme atmospheri...
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First, how does this new technology work
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the values it has in the schools
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it can make it easier detect someones emotions.
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This is why technology that reads emotions can be very useful
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First, how would the new technology detect the emotions? The Facial Action Coding System is how
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This innovation was created by Dr. Paul Eckman. The process starts with the computer constructing 3-D model of faces. It also, models the 44 major muscles that have to move like humans. By using video imagery, the software tracks the facial movement to recognize the emotions.
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Second, the effects it has on the school could be outstanding.
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What if the school computers could tell a student's emotions? The computer could recognize if the student is bored or confused. The computer could modify what the student is learning to something more effective. This way would be easier on the teacher, so they won't have to come up with new lesson plans.
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Third, it can easily detect someones emotions.
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They have used the new technology on Leonardo da Vinci panting of Mona Lisa. In the painting it's kind of hard to tell her emotions. The new technology find she's 83%, happy 9% disguted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry. If this technology can detect a painting emotions like this easily, just imagine how easy it would be to de...
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In Conclusion, technology that reads emotions can be very useful. First, how it's uesd. second, the value it has in schools. Third,it can make it easier to detect someones emotion.
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Persuading a person involves tons of effort and time. You have to know your facts and have tons of background knowlege on the subject. Do you personally believe in aliens?
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The so called "face" provided in the image is what I believe a natural landform, although some peoples thoughts differ
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If you look at the image that was revealed by NASA you will see there are no realistic features to it
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Do you ever come across a person with a square or retangular head? Well, I have not.
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Aliens aren't realistic
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The presents of aliens are said to be there, but realisitcally have you ever personally came across a alien or even evidence to a aliens presents?
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As we come to unmask the face on Mars the gravitational pull has formed the "face" on Mars by waste build up. Aliens are fictional creatures that live in movies and tv shows, not in the real world.
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Do you agree or disagree having technology read to students emotional expressions? Imagine being able to detect exactly how other people are feeling, even when they are trying to hide their emotions. New software has been developed that improves accurancy in perceiving the emotions of others. This new software, the Fa...
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I personality will like to have technology to read my emotional expressions . it would be fun to have that in school .
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It shows just how much this computer can do. Imagine a computer that knows when your're happy or sad.
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''The same technology can make computer- animated faces more expressive - for video games or video surgery'' said Dr,Huang. Dr. Huang and his colleague experts are developing better ways for humans and computer to communicate. The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 maj...
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This is how it works It's all about those muscular action units.
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They even indicate the difference between a genuine smlie and a forced one. In the real smile, the zygomatic major (muscles taht begin at your cheek bones) lift the corner of your mouth. (That's our instruction #1.) Muscles are called orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus make crow's-feet around your eyes.(That's instruct...
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I agree that students should have this Facial Action Coding System in schools. Not only well it help by reading emotions but it may also help for students that want to be actors and people that like doing art and like painting faces. Dr. Huang and his colleague are very smart for making The Facial Action Coding System...
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The Author supports this idea because he or she says Venus is too dangerous for astronuts to go to and study.
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So The author says that NASA is working on a Robot, to send into Space, to Venus
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Nasa is doing this so They don't have to got on Venus in person instead they are using a robot to gather information baout Venus.
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The Author Also says that since venus is very dangerous
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the Robot can study the plant while the astromistes stay on earth and they can egt data about venus thanks to the Robot. The Author says that NASA is always inventing new ways to get information from space and plants without doing it in person.
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I fell like the author is correct about these staements because Space and the other plants are not safe for humans to even step foot on.
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When the Author says that technolgy will be your best friends for ching out space and the other plants and get information for you the auther is correct.
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Sometimes something happens like sometime their computer act up or they need to be replaced so sometimes they are not reciving information from the robots and it makes it very diffcault to see what is happing in Space, and what is happing on the Plants. So sometimes the astronuts would have to go into space and retreve...
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The technology that is being deveolped is valuable
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because in situations wehn someone doesnt want to talk or refuse to in a crisis they can read ther emotions and seek a better way of talking with them.
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also a lot of schools do a horrible almost a illegal jobs and reading kids emotions and helping there students
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if this technology was used in schools teachers might actually have a chance at doing there jobs which they need to get better soon.
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this topic is useful in a lot of ways hostage situations interagations helping disabled people in schools which we all know need help this program could do wonders for people
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but if they use it to much and make it to logical we could lose sight of how to properly use it
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to many rules treating to many people the same would destory it because everyones different even if they feel the same way as other people some have a chip on ther shoulder and others own the world to many differences to make this system properly work and functio in a way we all wish it could but it would be to complex...
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Citizens cars are good to have but all the fines and stress they are putting on us makes us not wont to buy a car.
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But now i see we need to have a change and just start walking and finding another way other then our cars
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they are talking about fining and impounding our cars the ones (Cars) we paid full cash for.
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accroding to the article in ''Life Goes On Without Cars'', u could park at a garage but its gotta be ownship and u would have to buy space that cost $40,000, along with a home. For example, u would have to buy a house pay for that rent and also pay for the parking fee that u brought with the house. So with that being s...
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from the understanding that I'm getting,  I advise everyone to take the bus,walk,skate,bike,or hike just to get to where you got to be also you could just not own a car. Because either way, if u break the rules you are going to be to be fine or  they could impounded your car and thats would be a lot of mess  becasue yo...
Concluding Statement
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Have you ever wondered about Venus? This planet is somthing that we as humans haven't figured out yet. We are facing the challenge of Venus, it is really valued not only because of the facts and information we get out of this planet. Instead, humans are curiose and looking for more evidence of what we are going to face...
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We should learn more not only on the outter shell, but more deeply in the inside.
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Venus is the second planet in the our solar system(Milkyway). Also ot is one of the brightest points in the sky at night. As the closest plant to Earth in terms of size, density, and distane. The surface of it is full with valleys, mountains, and craters. Not even one single spacecraft have reached to it before. 97 per...
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If we could lend on Venus later on in the generation, could there be any living organisum that lives on that plante? There could be a possible chance since Earth is not the only planet in space. There are more things tha we need to discover.
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You would never know if there are creatures like ous that have a abiliy to explore space. We should keep trying even if there is only a 0.0000001 chance.
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There are many advantages of limiting car usage
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less smog or pollution
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stores would be places in walking distance
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it saves time because there is less traffic
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it improves safety.
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In Vauban, Germany, residents of this upscale comunnity are surburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two, as she walke...
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Basic precepts are being adopted around the world in attempts to make suburbs more compact and more accessible to public transportation, with less space for parking. In this new approach, stores are being placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway.
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After days of near record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog. The smog rivaled Bejing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world. In Bogota, Columb...
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President Obama proposed partnering with the telecommunications industry to create cities in which "pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety.
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If your tired of your job and looking for a adventure you can come join the "seagoing cowboys
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