Educating 21st Century Students

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The 21st Century presents a unique challenge for educators seeking to prepare students for an unknown and changing future. Consider the following quotes prior to posting a response to the discussion board.

“Today, every single one of us is a ‘Global Citizen’, whether we are conscious of it or not. Global inter-dependence happens every day. We rely on countless different people from all over the world for the clothes we wear, the food we eat and the technology we use. Our daily lives are constantly affected by what people on the other side of the planet are doing!”                                    -Anonymous-

“In the end we conserve only what we love.  We love only what we understand.  We understand only what we are taught.”      -Baba Diuom, 1968-

How does our current educational system address this idea of global interconnectedness ? Think about your own schema?  Do you have a schema for “global mindset? What thoughts or questions do the above quotes bring to mind?

Disaster declaration process

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After reviewing this unit’s video,Module Two the Stafford Act, you will create a blog post that addresses

the following.

Explain the disaster declaration process and role of the federal government in times of disaster.
Identify the individual programs available to disaster victims through the Stafford Act.
Give your opinion regarding whether individual and public assistance programs provided through FEMA

help fulfill the federal government’s role and responsibilities during times of emergencies.
Make at least one recommendation for change, and give an example of the anticipated effect.

Sample Solution

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TOK essay

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1600 words, not exceeding it. (not including headers, footnotes, and bibliography)

Prescribed title: Given that every theory has its limitations, we need to retain a multiplicity of theories to understand the world.

Area of knowledge: history and ethics
Ways of knowing: reason and sense of perception

Knowledge Question: To what extent considering multiple perspectives rather than one would help us better understand history and ethics through reason and sense of perception?

Claim: a collection of theories which is multiple perspectives of an area of knowledge, will aid us our understanding of knowledge rather limiting us to once source

Counterclaim for history; one has to rely mainly on autobiographies and memoirs because they are primary resources.

Counterclaim for ethics, the core of ethics is to rely also on counterclaims to explore how valid theories are.

Real-Life Situation  (more than one): one personal and two real-life situations

Financial Statement Data (IS, BS, and Stmt. Of Cash Flows)

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Using recent financial data(IS, BS, and Stmt. Of Cash Flows) of the company of your choice, you as Chief
Financial Officer of the company are required to diagnose its current operations and financial conditions.

In order to perform “checkups” on various aspects of the financial health of your company, you may

conduct the financial ratio analysis. Also, as demonstrated in class, you need to conduct a bankruptcy

prediction model for your company. So, the project consists of two parts;
I)Data Step: Choose a non-financial and non-online company (publicly held).
Prepare your company’s recent five year financial statements (B/S, I/S, and stmt.of cash flows, etc.)in the
sheet tab named “Financial Data.” Recent financial data are available for download from Mergent Online
database. (If all the five year data are not available, then, use the financial data for only available years).

–See
a separate document, named ‘Guidelines for Data Mining’) for more detailed procedures.
II) Analysis Step: First, construct common size Balance Sheet and Income Statemen on sheet tab

“Common
Size B/S &I/S.” Then,calculate the financial ratios using the definitions provided on sheet tab

“Analyses.”You
need a benchmark to compare the current financial ratios. Use either the industry average ratios or

historical
average ratios of the company as the benchmark. You may find the industry average ratios from Mergent
online database as demonstrated in the document, ”Guidelines for Data Mining’. All of your analyses

should be
conducted in the sheet tab named “Analyses.”
Required:
1) Complete data step. Data from Mergent Online. Make sure to import financial data in the format of
“Standardized.”
2) Fill the excel template in sheet tabs ” Financial Data,” “Common Size B/S and I/S.” and “Analyses”
3) Report: Conduct comparative analysis using the financial ratios and their benchmarks. State any

significant
changes(improvement or deterioration) in the comparative analysis.

Sample Solution

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