1. How does 21st century globalization of education differ from traditional concepts of international education? Explain. Does globalization require a change in the breadth and depth of study necessary to address divergent global perspectives in teaching and learning? Why or why not?

2. Consider a framework that synthesizes the notions of cultural literacy and global awareness into an overall model of global literacy. How do successful teaching and learning appear in this framework? Justify your position with support from the empirical research.

References :

1. Mossman, A. P. (2018). Retrofitting the ivory tower: Engaging global sustainability challenges through interdisciplinary problem-oriented education, research, and partnerships in U.S. higher education. Journal of Higher Education Outreach & Engagement, 22(1), 35-60.

2. Sklad, M., Friedman, J., Park, E., & Oomen, B. (2016). Going global: A qualitative and quantitative analysis of global citizenship education at a Dutch liberal arts and sciences college. Higher Education, 72(3), 323340.

3. Wright, K. (2017). Education for international mindedness: Life history reflections on schooling and the shaping of a cosmopolitan outlook. Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE), 20(1), 68-83.

4. Roy, B. (2016). Towards a global critical literacy: Literature, community engagement and the global commons from an American perspective. Higher Learning Research Communications, 6(2), 1-16. URL: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1132792

What is job satisfaction? Please define it, highlight its dimensions, and provide examples of how it is measured. When you think about your own experience of job satisfaction, is it consistent with the cognitive and affective components discussed in the required reading? Give examples and explain why or why not.

Discussion Board Assignments
Minimum of 500 words in length
Must incorporate and cite the required reading
Must incorporate and cite at least 2 other sources (journal articles not books) and
the required reading

the required reading is from the book:
Kraut, A. I. (1996). Organizational surveys. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-
Bass.

I included powerpoint of the two chapters to be read for this assignment

EXPLAIN HOW BRAIN DEVELOPMENT AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO PLAY AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE TO MODERN TIMES

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For this discussion board, provide an overview of each of the following types of imaging/assessment measures:
1. Computerized Tomography (CT)
2. Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI)
3. Functional Magnetic Resonance Image (fMRI)
4. Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
5. Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT)
6. Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Which imaging technique would you select if you suspected a brain tumor? Why?
The following article may be helpful in answering this discussion board:
Camprodon, J.A., & Stern, T.A. (2013). Selecting neuroimaging techniques: A review for the clinician. The Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders, 15(4), 12f01490. doi: 10.4088/PCC.12f01490
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3869600/
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**Discussion board posting requirements: For each discussion board, be sure to have one main post of at least 400 words and two reply posts of at least 200 words in order to demonstrate sufficient depth to your responses. To receive the highest grade for the discussion board posts, be sure to integrate the textbook as well as additional scholarly sources to support your contributions. Take a look at the empirical literature and include peer-reviewed journal articles to support your posts. Please have your posts submitted on at least two separate days (e.g., don’t post your main post and reply posts all on the same day). This will be worth one point per discussion board and falls under the “Advances Conversations” portion of the discussion board rubric. This helps to spread out the conversation over the course of the unit, and it gives every student the chance to respond to the discussion at a time convenient to their schedule (instead of most of the discussion occurring on the due date). Reply posts can be to either your peers’ posts or to the instructors posts.

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      Carlson and Birkett (2017) advance that that computerized tomography is usually referred to as a CT scan. The means of how this works is by placing the patient’s head in a doughnut-shaped ring which contains an X-ray tube on one side and an X-ray detector on the opposite side. The X-ray beam passes through the patients head with the detector measuring the amount of radioactivity that gets through it. The beam scans the head from all sides and the information garnered from the detector translates to an image of the skull and its parts. Camprodon and Stern (2013) advance that CT images are formulated via a rotating axial plane. Since the conceptualization is via X-rays, water, fat, bone, and other tissue types appear differently on the film or digital sensor.
        An even more detailed image can be produced via a process called magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Carlson and Birkett (2017) advance that the MRI scanner has similarity to the CT scanner, however, it does not use X-rays. The means of how the MRI functions, is via passing a very potent magnetic field through the persons head. According to Camprodon and Stern (2013), the magnetic properties of hydrogen ions in the body are utilized. When the patient’s head is placed in this strong magnetic field, the nuclei of the whirling hydrogen atoms align with it. Subsequently, a radio frequency is passed through the brain, causing the nuclei to flip and then flip back to its original position. This causes a release of energy, detected by a coil of wire. Since tissues have different amounts of hydrogen, they emit different amounts of energy. It is from these differences in energy that pictures are formed.
    Presently, the brain imaging mechanism with the best spatial resolution is the functional MRI. Carlson and Birkett (2017) advance that modification has been made to existing MRI scanners permitting devices to acquire images that indicate metabolism in certain regions. The manner in which this is accomplished is because brain activity is measured indirectly through discovering levels of oxygen in the brains blood. If there is an increase in activity, it stimulates greater blood flow to that area (Camprodon & Stern, 2013). Carlson and Birkett (2017) elucidate that the formal name is referred to as BOLD, namely blood oxygen level-dependent signal.
      Carlson and Birkett (2017) advance that the first functional image method was the positron emission tomography (PET). The means of how it works is that a person receives an injection of radioactive 2-DG, which is not deleterious. The patients head is placed in a machine that is similar to a CT scan and when the radioactive 2-DG decomposes, they emit positrons that meet nearby electrons. The particles crush each other emitting two photons that travel in opposite directions. The sensors around the patients head detect the photons and scanner plots where they came from, eventually producing a picture of the persons brain showing the activity level. Two disadvantages are that PET scans are expensive and have poor resolution quality.
      The National Center for Biotechnology Information [NCBI] (n.d.) advances that the single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is an imaging technique that is predicated on nuclear medicine imaging and tomographic reconstruction methods. The images show images about a patient that is similar to PET scans. The difference is in how it achieves these results, with the SPECT measuring gamma rays as opposed to positrons in the PET scan. The SPECT is a highly functional image that shows how organs work. A radiopharmaceutical is administered to the patient and taken up by different organs or tissues. Typically, a certain type of camera system is used that picks up the decaying gamma and formulates a picture. According to Camprodon and Stern (2013), the PET scan is the preferred device.
      According to Carlson and Birkett (2017), macro-electrodes do not detect individual neurons, rather they survey many thousands or millions of cells. The activity of macro electrodes is displayed on a polygraph, which is displayed on a computer screen. When electrical activity from macro-electrodes are taken from different areas of the scalp, that record is called an electroencephalogram (EEG), which means writing of electricity from the head.
    Carlson and Birkett (2017) advance that the CT scan slices through tissues of the body and can pick up tumors or bleeding. Additionally, the MRI can achieve the same results as the CT scan but does so through the use of a magnetic field instead of X-rays. According to Dr. Serafini (personal communication, January 19, 2020), the MRI may be less used due to cost, time, and invasiveness. The CT scan is the first choice for tumors and bleeding.
References
Camprodon, J. A., & Stern, T. A. (2013). Selecting neuroimaging techniques: a review for the clinician. The primary care companion for CNS disorders, 15(4).
Carlson, N. R., & Birkett, M. A. (2017). Physiology of Behavior, 12th Edition. Boston, Massachusetts: Pearson.
NCBI. (n.d.). Single photon computed tomography. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK232492/
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Sumarize and Analyze each article, address their relevance to today’s classrooms.

Please do it in this order, articles are attached
1.Dobbs, C.L., Ippolito ,J., & Charner-Laird, M.C. (2016).  Layering intermediate and disciplinary literacy work:  Lessons learned from a secondary social studies teacher team.  Journal of Adolescent &Adult Literacy, 60 (2), 131 139.

2.Ferguson, M.L., Dole, J.A., Scarpulla, L.F., & Adamson, S.L. (Jul -Aug 2018).  A summer program to assist diverse, urban adolescent writers in becoming college and career ready.  Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 62 (4), 79 87.

3.Poulos, D., & Exley, B. (Nov Dec 2018).  Critical literacy for diverse teenagers: Ive learned something that is actually useful.  Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 62 (3), 271 280.

4.Siebert, D.K., Draper, R.J., Barney, D., Broomhead, P., Grierson, S., Jensen, A.P., Nielson, J., Nokes, J.D., Shumway, S., & Wimmer, J.  (June Aug 2016). Characteristics of literacy instruction that support reform in content area classrooms.  Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 60 (1), 25 35.

5.Staurseth, H.E., & Haland, A. (Jan-Feb 2019).  Ninth-grade students use of graphical representations in Social Studies writing.  Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 62(4), 421 434.

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Similarly to last weeks discussion about the Wests relationship to the East regarding ideologies and practices of psychology, what has been the Wests relationship to Caribbean, African or Indigenous traditions related to categories such as person, suffering, health, and the good life?  How have other-than-Western traditions been silenced on these topics?

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The westernized industrialized culture seems to tend to measure success, responsibility in materialistic, technological, and economic terms (Grof, 2000). This has given us great technological advances and yet we seem to be in a global crisis on many levels including but not limited to the fact that many scientists predict we will destroy the environment that supports human life if we don’t change our ways yesterday (Grof, 2000). So, it is a time of great potential, and yet we seem to in my opinion lack a pearl of certain wisdom. This wisdom is to be found within each human, in my opinion. However, we would be wise to look to the healing wisdom of ancient and indigenous Africa, for example, for inspiration as to how to access the universe of wisdom inside ourselves. For even as the Christian tradition that so many in the westernized industrialized culture seem to follow teaches people that their god is found within, people seem to have in large part embraced the exoteric part of that religion, and they seem to have long forgotten the powerful and sometimes esoteric traditions that benefit for example a shamanic community in Africa. Such a community does not have the material riches and opportunities of the so-called West, and yet through ritual, a shamanic community in Africa would be connected to a pearl of wisdom they experience as essential to human life. A shamanic community in Africa such as the one found in Some (1998) would use ritual to connect themselves to the spirits of their ancestors and to their source of spiritual inspiration and life energy (Some, 1998). Such a community would view the world as ensouled and perceive a living spirit in everything from birds to rocks to rivers. This, in their view, connects the people with inner and cosmic resources of wholeness and healing (Some, 1998). To put this in terms found in Larson (2017) the shamanic wisdom traditions of Africa tend to have an animistic worldview seeing the spirit in everything. This view seems to hold great wisdom and potential to catalyze human growth, and yet it is not very compatible of accessible to the mechanistic worldview of the West (Grof, 2000; Larson, 2017). 
In researching this topic I found it interesting that while some authors criticize the West for influencing African culture (Higgs, 2000), and for teaching African people to deny their traditional wisdom, some authors also say that the best way to treat people of African descent, when they are living in a culture that has been westernized, is to construct for them a version of mainstream therapy rather than a more traditional or shamanic type of healing (Sutherland, 2011). This, in my view, demonstrates that it seems to be no longer just the West that sets the dominant paradigm, but also non-Western cultures that have become westernized.
Referenes
Grof, S. (2000). Psychology of the future: Lessons from modern consciousness research. State University of New York Press.
Higgs, P. (2000). African Voices in Education. Rustica Press. South Africa.
Larson, P.  (2017). Psychological Healing:  Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Professional Psychology.
Some, M. P. (1998). The healing wisdom of Africa: Finding life purpose through nature, ritual, and community. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam.
Sutherland, M. E. (2011). Toward a Caribbean Psychology: An African-Centered Approach. Journal of Black Studies, 42(8), 11751194. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021934711410547

The Case Assignment for this course will be an application of the below concepts explored to a family you know well. Details can be fabricated if necessary. Use initials to identify members. This is a clinical, objective, observational analysis of the family system, explained in a third-person narrative.

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Understanding by Design is one method for designing curriculum. The UbD framework is used when developing curriculum maps, unit plans, and daily lesson plans. Educators who consider learning theories in their planning, can best determine assessment types and rich learning experiences to meet the desired learning outcomes.

This presentation is meant to be professional development that could be used for teachers who want to know more about the purpose of UbD and how to implement UbD in their curriculum development.

Create a 12-15 slide presentation to include title slide, reference slide and presenters notes on how to create a UbD lesson aligned to the learning theory you identify with most. Consider choosing one of the learning theories identified in Topic 1.- LEARNER CENTERED IDEOLOGY

Use 3-5 scholarly references to support UbD and the learning theory you chose.   

Include a 250-500 word reflection on the importance of UbD and how it aligns with the learning theory you chose.

PLEASE USE POWERPOINT TO MAKE THE SLIDES

Instructions

How are behavioral and conduct disorders diagnosed? What factors potentially contribute to the over-diagnosis of these types of disorders? What long- and short-term implications does over-diagnosis have on a child? Substantiate your findings with specific examples and research.

*I’ve attached the articles and rubric instructions. The video is embedded in the Over Diagnosis doc.