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- Title
- UNPLUGGING: A PARENT'S HANDBOOK FOR CHILDREN'S TECHNOLOGY USE.
- Creator
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Taylor, Victoria R, Gresham, Gina, Jennings-Towle, Kelly, University of Central Florida
- Abstract / Description
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The intent of this thesis is to explore children's technology usage, technology's effects, and what can be done to regulate technology use for children and families. The overuse of technology by children has been proven to be detrimental to a child's emotions and health and wellness. Children need rules and regulations for proper use of technology as well as instruction on how to positively use technology. In a world of growing technologies and the creation of new digital devices, research is...
Show moreThe intent of this thesis is to explore children's technology usage, technology's effects, and what can be done to regulate technology use for children and families. The overuse of technology by children has been proven to be detrimental to a child's emotions and health and wellness. Children need rules and regulations for proper use of technology as well as instruction on how to positively use technology. In a world of growing technologies and the creation of new digital devices, research is needed for assist parents and guardians of children of all ages. This thesis focuses on the negative effects of technology on the developing child and will produce a handbook for parents. The handbook includes a letter to parents, reasons for regulation, guidelines, activities for technology replacement, strategies, and lessons on digital citizenship. This tool for parents is the start to raising responsible digital citizens. With this handbook, parents will gain insight on what they can do for their children and with their children in order to effectively use technology in a positive and beneficial way. The handbook includes a list of books and websites for parents to complete more research and provides an extensive list of activities and guidelines for technology and technology replacement. The purpose of this handbook is help parents to better understand what technology does to their children and how they can work with technology in the most positive and educational ways.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2017
- Identifier
- CFH2000243, ucf:45974
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH2000243
- Title
- INCLUDING EVERYONE: A HANDBOOK FOR LBGT INCLUSION IN THE ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM.
- Creator
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Mollentze, Shanine, Killingsworth Roberts, Sherron, University of Central Florida
- Abstract / Description
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A quick look into the prevalence of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) topics in children's literature and one can easily note the rarity of LGBT presence in elementary classrooms. This topic continually fails to enter the classroom curriculum due to the taboo status it has in society. Some people find it to be inappropriate for the classroom, especially the elementary classroom. However, understanding that the intention is to provide an inclusive environment for LGBT students and...
Show moreA quick look into the prevalence of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) topics in children's literature and one can easily note the rarity of LGBT presence in elementary classrooms. This topic continually fails to enter the classroom curriculum due to the taboo status it has in society. Some people find it to be inappropriate for the classroom, especially the elementary classroom. However, understanding that the intention is to provide an inclusive environment for LGBT students and/or families is important - not to expose children to explicit sexual discussion, but to establish a community of tolerance and acceptance. The purpose of this thesis is to explore, collect, and synthesize the literature regarding LGBT studies in order to create a handbook for preservice teachers, teachers who are in the university program to become teachers. The handbook will provide inclusion strategies, materials to educate preservice teachers on the topic and how to include it in the classroom (via children's literature or units of study), strategies to broach the topic with parents and administrators, classroom environment ideas, and a complete resource list of books and websites with suggestions on where to use them in instruction. Choosing to share quality literature will be important; however the focus of this thesis will center upon better preparing preservice teachers. For purposes of this study, preservice teachers are defined as students in elementary educator preparation courses at UCF. This target audience is required to take children's literature classes in this preparatory program. Preservice literature classes discuss the relevance and importance of including various genres and types of literature in the classroom
Show less - Date Issued
- 2011
- Identifier
- CFH0003852, ucf:44706
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0003852
- Title
- THE REBIRTH OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
- Creator
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Blaszak, Urszula, Hall, Scott, University of Central Florida
- Abstract / Description
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Human beings encounter cascades of a plethora of experiences, one after another, every single microsecond of our lives. There are many things happening around. The world is full of events and occurrences. As they happen, the mind reacts to every individual input. This is a very exhausting and difficult. Thus, people have developed a process of self-defense against this horrible mishmash of information. Their minds have this amazing capacity of sorting them out and making sense out of them....
Show moreHuman beings encounter cascades of a plethora of experiences, one after another, every single microsecond of our lives. There are many things happening around. The world is full of events and occurrences. As they happen, the mind reacts to every individual input. This is a very exhausting and difficult. Thus, people have developed a process of self-defense against this horrible mishmash of information. Their minds have this amazing capacity of sorting them out and making sense out of them. Humankind's survival depends on that. If one does not sort all this information out, one might not be able to make a simplest decision. As humans process the information, they learn to ignore and forget. They focus on their feelings and emotions. They forget the logic. The oversimplification process begins. Humans create rigid systems of oversimplified formulas. They assign adjectives to things, occurrences, and other people. The number of those adjectives is small. After assigning, those adjectives obscure everything else. A new world is created, stupid, limited, lazy, and in the end making humans very easy to control. What starts as a basic survival process ends up as a tool one can use to destroy the owners of the mind. In the end, the birth of consciousness leads to its death. My work fights this process. It aims to put a person back into that state of shock created by a mishmash of information and thus create the rebirth of consciousness.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2007
- Identifier
- CFE0001673, ucf:47195
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0001673
- Title
- The Communist Party: A manual on organization.
- Creator
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Peters, J.
- Date Issued
- 1935
- Identifier
- 368031, CFDT368031, ucf:5375
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/368031
