Generation Alpha: Understanding our Children and Helping them Thrive

Helping 'them': our role in recovery from opioid dependence.

The crisis of opioid addiction in America has been fueled by the diversion of prescription pain pills and the emergence of pure and inexpensive heroin. Until recently, benefits of and access to therapy were limited. This situation changed in 2003 with Food and Drug Administration approval of buprenorphine for the office-based treatment of opioid dependence. Now armed with a potent drug, primary...

Simulation and debriefing: helping the pediatric nurse thrive.

0882 doi:1 a car while riding his bike 5 hours ago. The child had a mild concussion and a fractured femur. You are to prepare for his admission. This brief introduction begins your simulated learning experience. Learning through simulation provides pediatric nurses with the opportunity to practice clinical skills in a safe environment. Simulated scenarios are useful as teaching methods within a...

Clinical uncertainty: helping our learners.

Transformative Personal Development: Helping Teachers to Thrive on Discontinuous Change

Many professional development opportunities offered to serving teachers address potential performance improvements or responses to change that are essentially incremental in nature. However, some challenges and opportunities particularly those relating to new technologies, involve addressing a more discontinuous change process. The Transformative Personal Development (TPD) model is derived from...

Automated generation of example contexts for helping children learn vocabulary

1 This paper addresses the problem of generating good example contexts to help children learn vocabulary. We construct candidate contexts from the Google N-gram corpus. We propose a set of constraints on good contexts, and use them to filter candidate example contexts. We evaluate the automatically generated contexts by comparison to example contexts from children’s dictionaries and from childr...