Friday, September 27, 2013

5V The Art of Learning Everyday


We all know that we learn something new everyday. Doesn't matter what is it may, how to cook, how to work in a job, and so on. This week the word agency is definitely something that our inquiry class has done. When you hear of the word agency, I'm sure you think of a business. Well let's define it first. Agency means a business or organization that provides a particular service typically one that involves organizing transactions between two parties. I think of my inquiry class as a business and my classmates and I as the agents. We all participate in class and bring in new information that may aid one another. We are there to support one another in our first year experience at SCSU and combine our ideas to make it one. The class is a business that we keep together and slowly create a structure to further our career paths. For example, this week we read articles and poured the main ideas or strategies that may help one of our classmates in their studies. Building this foundation helps all us become one.



This week in my social issues class we have been learning about different strategies of defining. For example, there is ostensive definitions meaning when you actually point at something to show what the word means. If I say what does a chair mean, someone could point to one and that would be ostensive definition. There also is enumerative definition, which is defining by providing specific examples of what the word refers to. For example, Actor means Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Nicholas Cage, etc... There are other ways of defining words, but these two were the ones of the top of my head!

Hope you learned a new way to define words after reading this!

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