You work in finance and your company is considering buying another company for $10.6 million. Your company does not have $10.6 million in cash and has asked you to evaluate different types of short-term and long-term financing opportunities.You will have to conduct research to see what options are available for short-term and long-term financing opportunities. Explain why you chose the option you selected and what the short-term and long-term effects of that option will be.
You work in finance and your company is considering buying another company for $10.6 million. Your company does not have $10.6 million in cash and has asked you to evaluate different types of short-term and long-term financing opportunities.You will have to conduct research to see what options are available for short-term and long-term financing opportunities. Explain why you chose the option you selected and what the short-term and long-term effects of that option will be.
What are the current trends in artificial intelligence in your chosen industry?Explain how artificial intelligence can impact processes at one or more units within the organization (accounting, sales, human resource, etc.).How can machine learning, virtual reality, and/or neural networks be used within the industry?
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is emerging quickly in all industries from manufacturing, business, education, and healthcare. For your week 2 assignment, choose the industry that you are currently in or an industry that you would like to work in the future. Think of the various departments within an organization in your industry. Answer the following questions:
· Provide a small background on the industry.
· What are the current trends in artificial intelligence in your chosen industry?Explain how artificial intelligence can impact processes at one or more units within the organization (accounting, sales, human resource, etc.).How can machine learning, virtual reality, and/or neural networks be used within the industry?
· Explain how artificial intelligence can impact processes at one or more units within the organization (accounting, sales, human resource, etc.).
· How can machine learning, virtual reality, and/or neural networks be used within the industry?
· What are some software available within your industry that supports artificial intelligence?
This summary should be in APA format, contain a title page with your name, and be approximately 600 words in length. Your paper should include an introduction, background on the industry, answer questions, conclusion, and references in a paper format. Again, please do not bullet your answers and do not include the questions but write a paper that flows from paragraph to paragraph. You must use APA and cite your references including your textbook (BUSINESS DRIVEN INFORMATION SYSTEMS by Paige Baltzan).
Required Elements for Business Decisions & Artificial Intelligence:
· Title page with your name, course, title, and date
· Content includes Small background on the industry; current trends in artificial intelligence in the chosen industry; how artificial intelligence can impact processes at one or more units within the organization (accounting, sales, human resource, etc.); how machine learning, virtual reality, and/or neural networks be used within the industry; and some software available within industry that supports artificial intelligence.
· Writing is coherent and supports the central idea in an APA format, with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Give a brief overview of the history of your selected social media platform. Provide stats on the platforms usage and popularity today from a credible site. 2. What issues/challenges has the platform introduced to society? 3. What positive effects has the platform had on society?
1. Give a brief overview of the history of your selected social media platform. Provide stats on the platforms usage and popularity today from a credible site.
2. What issues/challenges has the platform introduced to society?
3. What positive effects has the platform had on society?
4. Overall, how do you think social media in general affects society?
5. How has social media affected you personally?
Identify and list the role of a paraprofessional in the following classroom-related matters (10 points) IEP Lesson Planning Lesson Implementation Evaluation of Student Learning Classroom Management
In many classrooms with students with severe disabilities, there may be a paraprofessional in the classroom.
Read the attached guide
After you have reviewed the guide, answer the following questions using the attached template,
Identify and list the role of a paraprofessional in the following classroom-related matters (10 points)
IEP
Lesson Planning
Lesson Implementation
Evaluation of Student Learning
Classroom Management
Identify two important factors that you should consider when communicating with paraprofessionals, with students about paraprofessionals, and with parents about paraprofessionals (12 points).
Use the guide and other resources, to answer the following scenarios:
Scenario 1: The teacher is showing the students double-digit addition on the board. The Para-educator notices that a student is talking with a classmate, distracting them from listening to the teacher.
How should both the teacher and the Para-educator respond in this situation? (5 points)
How could the team be proactive in keeping this problem from occurring in the first place? (5 points)
Scenario 2: Steve is a student in your classroom. The mom asks the Para-educator about another student in the classroom. and the Para-educator explains some of the behaviors of the other students. The parent then calls you to discuss that she does not want Steve around this other student.
How would you, as the teacher, respond to this situation to ensure confidentiality? (6 points)
How would you discuss this with your para-educator and make sure to maintain a working relationship? (7 points)
Explain how you will differentiate materials for each of the following groups: · English language learners (ELL): · Students with special needs: · Students with gifted abilities:
Anticipatory Set
Your goal in this section is to open the lesson by activating students prior knowledge, linking previous learning with what they will be learning in this lesson and gaining student interest for the lesson. Consider various learning preferences (movement, music, visuals) as a tool to engage interest and motivate learners for the lesson.
In a bulleted list, describe the materials and activities you will use to open the lesson.
Bold any materials you will need to prepare for the lesson.
For example:
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I will use a
visual of the planet Earth and ask students to describe what Earth looks like.
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I will record their ideas on the white board and ask more questions about the amount of water they think is on planet Earth and where the water is located.
Time Needed
Multiple Means of Representation
Learners perceive and comprehend information differently. Your goal in this section is to explain how you would present content in various ways to meet the needs of different learners. For example, you may present the material using guided notes, graphic organizers, video or other visual media, annotation tools, anchor charts, hands-on manipulatives, adaptive technologies, etc.
In a bulleted list, describe the materials you will use to differentiate instruction and how you will use these materials throughout the lesson to support learning.
Bold any materials you will need to prepare for the lesson.
For example:
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I will use a
Venn diagram graphic organizer to teach students how to compare and contrast the two main characters in the read-aloud story.
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I will model one example on the white board before allowing students to work on the Venn diagram graphic organizer with their elbow partner.
Explain how you will differentiate materials for each of the following groups:
· English language learners (ELL):
· Students with special needs:
· Students with gifted abilities:
· Early finishers (those students who finish early and may need additional resources/support):
Time Needed
Multiple Means of Engagement
Your goal for this section is to outline how you will engage students in interacting with the content and academic language. How will students explore, practice, and apply the content? For example, you may engage students through collaborative group work, Kagan cooperative learning structures, hands-on activities, structured discussions, reading and writing activities, experiments, problem solving, etc.
In a bulleted list, describe the activities you will engage students in to allow them to explore, practice, and apply the content and academic language.
Bold any activities you will use in the lesson. Also, include formative questioning strategies and higher order thinking questions you might pose.
For example:
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I will use a
matching card activity where students will need to find a partner with a card that has an answer that matches their number sentence.
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I will model one example of solving a number sentence on the white board before having students search for the matching card.
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I will then have the partner who has the number sentence explain to their partner how they got the answer.
Explain how you will differentiate activities for each of the following groups:
· English language learners (ELL):
· Students with special needs:
· Students with gifted abilities:
· Early finishers (those students who finish early and may need additional resources/support):
Time Needed
Multiple Means of Expression
Learners differ in the ways they navigate a learning environment and express what they know. Your goal in this section is to explain the various ways in which your students will demonstrate what they have learned. Explain how you will provide alternative means for response, selection, and composition to accommodate all learners. Will you tier any of these products? Will you offer students choices to demonstrate mastery? This section is essentially differentiated assessment.
In a bulleted list, explain the options you will provide for your students to express their knowledge about the topic. For example, students may demonstrate their knowledge in more
summative ways through a short answer or multiple-choice test, multimedia presentation, video, speech to text, website, written sentence, paragraph, essay, poster, portfolio, hands-on project, experiment, reflection, blog post, or skit.
Bold the names of any summative assessments.
Students may also demonstrate their knowledge in ways that are more
formative. For example, students may take part in thumbs up-thumbs middle-thumbs down, a short essay or drawing, an entrance slip or exit ticket, mini-whiteboard answers, fist to five, electronic quiz games, running records, four corners, or hand raising.
Underline the names of any formative assessments.
For example:
Students will complete a
one-paragraph reflection on the in-class simulation they experienced. They will be expected to write the reflection using complete sentences, proper capitalization and punctuation, and utilize an example from the simulation to demonstrate their understanding. Students will also take part in formative assessments throughout the lesson, such as
thumbs up-thumbs middle-thumbs down and
pair-share discussions, where you will determine if you need to re-teach or re-direct learning.
Explain how you will differentiate assessments for each of the following groups:
· English language learners (ELL):
· Students with special needs:
· Students with gifted abilities:
· Early finishers (those students who finish early and may need additional resources/support):
Time Needed
What does it mean to incorporate innovation into business practices (as opposed to innovations made through product or service offerings)? How can leaders create a work environment that fosters innovation? Be specific, including what factors are most conducive to facilitating innovation and developing an innovation mindset.
Note: This is a three-part Assignment that is submitted over the course of 3 weeks. This week, you will submit Part 2. You will submit Part 3 in Week 3. Additionally, you will continue using the same document for each submission (renaming it each time you submit). In this weeks submission, you will re-include what you originally submitted for Part 1, you will complete Part 2, and you will leave the placeholder language for Part 3 as is.
For this Assignment, you will continue your role of a consultant who has been brought in to help the leadership of a company struggling to evolve in the current market. You will present a report to the CEO in which you analyze the relationship of creativity and innovation to business practices. For your reference, the scenario that was introduced in Week 1 is included here again.
The companys CEO, Gabriel Marron, has been resistant to change for the past 25 years, and the company recently began losing market share to other competitors. After months of being in denial, the CEO is finally open to considering the idea of implementing innovative approaches to reclaim the companys former position at the top. Gabriel admits that it is simply not in his nature to value innovation. Sticking to tried and true methods has always worked favorably throughout his career, but you are being brought in because that is proving to no longer be the case. In your report, you will draw the connection between creativity, innovation, and business practices.
With those thoughts in mind, construct Part 2 of your report to the CEO with the following section, being sure to incorporate appropriate business examples (as indicated), as well as citations for relevant academic resources from the classroom, the Walden Library, and/or other appropriate scholarly sources to support your work.
To prepare for this Assignment:
Return to your Module 1 Assignment Template to complete Part 2 of your report.
BY DAY 7
Submit Part 2 of your analysis of the role of creativity and innovation in business, in which you address the following in a 3- to 4-page business report (excluding references):
Part 2: Incorporating Innovation
What does it mean to incorporate innovation into business practices (as opposed to innovations made through product or service offerings)?
How can leaders create a work environment that fosters innovation? Be specific, including what factors are most conducive to facilitating innovation and developing an innovation mindset.
To support your assertions, do some research and locate at least two examples of organizations that reflect an innovation mindset and employ (or employed) innovation in their business practices. For each example, do the following:
Describe the organization (including what type of company it is, what sector/industry it is in, etc.).
Provide specific examples of how the organization employs (or employed) innovation in its business practices.
Refer to the Week 2 Assignment Rubric for specific grading elements and criteria. Your Instructor will use this grading rubric to assess your work.
Here, I want you to identify one career assessment that would be appropriate for this client. Discuss why you chose this assessment, how it is aligned with his issue(s), and what theory it is related to. You can take a look at the Career Assessment Resources for some ideas on assessments to use.
Here, I want you to identify one career assessment that would be appropriate for this client. Discuss why you chose this assessment, how it is aligned with his issue(s), and what theory it is related to. You can take a look at the Career Assessment Resources for some ideas on assessments to use.
Your client, Jim, is an 18-year-old male living with his parents. You have been working with him for the past year on his severe anxiety related to his chaotic home life. His parents do not have stable jobs and have battled addiction on and off through the years. They are currently sober but not working and ready to lose their home. Jim just graduated from high school and is eligible for a variety of grants and scholarships that would pay for his college – tuition and housing. Jim wants to go to college, but is trying to decide between a culinary arts program at one community college nearby. If he chooses this program, he can stay with his parents. He has already registered and signed up for classes in this program. The other option is a 4-year university an hour away. He would need to live in the dorms if he chooses this option. He is very undecided about what he wants to do and is considering a variety of careers – criminal justice, business, and psychology. He was a good student in high school.
Jims anxiety has increased in recent weeks because the school year is to begin in a few weeks and he is unsure what he wants to do. His parents are pressuring him to stay with them and do culinary arts.
Retailers are known for collecting huge amounts of customer data. Considering the three characteristics of big data (volume, velocity, and variety), what do you think are some of the challenges that apply to the process?
. Retailers are known for collecting huge amounts of customer data. Considering the three characteristics of big data (volume, velocity, and variety), what do you think are some of the challenges that apply to the process?
In order to deliver the Home Office Renovation project ahead of schedule, you have been granted permission to add more resources to your team. Your project sponsor has worked out a deal to add an outside firm (partner) to your project team. They have very little understanding of your project, and you don’t have a lot of time to educate them on the project’s specifics. Describe how you plan to incorporate them as members of your project, as well as how to get them up to speed on your project for Home Office Renovation.
In order to deliver the Home Office Renovation project ahead of schedule, you have been granted permission to add more resources to your team. Your project sponsor has worked out a deal to add an outside firm (partner) to your project team. They have very little understanding of your project, and you don’t have a lot of time to educate them on the project’s specifics. Describe how you plan to incorporate them as members of your project, as well as how to get them up to speed on your project for Home Office Renovation.
Read an excerpt of Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America,” which he observes how family life had been altered in America. I have just been considering how among democratic peoples, particularly America, equality modifies the relations between one citizen and another. What was the relationship between fathers and sons in America?
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Democracy Analysis: Democracy & the Family
Read an excerpt of Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America,” which he observes how family life had been altered in America.
I have just been considering how among democratic peoples, particularly America, equality modifies the relations between one citizen and another. What was the relationship between fathers and sons in America? I want to carry the argument further and consider what happens within the family. I am not trying to discover new truths, but to show how known facts have a bearing on my subject . Everyone has noticed that in our time a new relationship has evolved between the different members of a family, that the distance formerly separating father, and son has diminished, and that paternal authority, if not abolished, has at least changed form. Something analogous, but even more striking, occurs in the United States.
In America the family, if one takes the word in its Roman and aristocratic sense, no longer exists. One only finds scattered traces thereof in the first years following the birth of children. The father then does, without opposition, exercise the domestic dictatorship which his sons’ weakness makes necessary and which is justified by both their weakness and his unquestionable superiority.
But as soon as the young American begins to approach man’s estate, the reins of filial obedience are daily slackened. Master of his thoughts, he soon becomes responsible for his own behavior. In America there is in truth no adolescence. At the close of boyhood he is a man and begins to trace out his own path.
It would be wrong to suppose that this results from some sort of domestic struggle, in which, by some kind of moral violence, the son had won the freedom which his father refused. The same habits and principles which lead the former to grasp at independence dispose the latter to consider its enjoyment as an incontestable right.
So in the former one sees none of these hateful, disorderly passions which disturb men long after they have shaken off an established yoke. The latter feels none of those bitter, angry regrets which usually accompany fallen power. The father has long anticipated the moment when his authority must come to an end, and when that time does come near, he abdicates without fuss. The son has known in advance exactly when he will be his own master and wins his liberty without haste or effort as a possession which is his due and which no one seeks to snatch from him …
When the state of society turns to democracy and men adopt the general principle that it is good and right to judge everything for oneself, taking former beliefs as providing information but not rules, paternal opinions come to have less power over the sons, just as his legal power is less too.
Perhaps the division of patrimonies which follows from democracy does more than all the rest to alter the relations between father and children.
When the father of a family has little property, his son and he live constantly in the same place and carry on the same work together. Habit and necessity bring them together and force them all the time to communicate with each other. There is bound, then, to be a sort of intimate familiarity between them which makes power less absolute and goes ill with respectful formalities.
Moreover, in democracies those who possess these small fortunes are the very class which gives ideas their force and sets the tone of mores. Both its will and its thoughts prevail everywhere, and even those who are most disposed to disobey its orders end by being carried along by its example. I have known fiery opponents of democracy who allowed their children to call them “thou.”
So at the same time as aristocracy loses its power, all that was austere, conventional, and legal in parental power also disappears and a sort of equality reigns around the domestic hearth.
I am not certain, generally speaking, whether society loses by the change, but I am inclined to think that the individual gains. I think that as mores and laws become more democratic the relations between father and sons become more intimate and gentle; there is less of rule and authority, often more of confidence and affection, and it would seem that the natural bond grows tighter as the social link loosens ….
Democracy too draws brothers together, but in a different way.
Under democratic laws the children are perfectly equal, and consequently independent; nothing forcibly brings them together, but also nothing drives them apart. Having a common origin, brought up under the same roof, and treated with the same care, as no peculiar privilege distinguishes or divides them, the affectionate and frank intimacy of childhood easily takes root among them ….
This gentleness of democratic manners is such that even the partisans of aristocracy are attracted by it, and when they have tasted it for some time, they are not at all tempted to return to the cold and respectful formalities of the aristocratic family. They gladly keep the family habits of democracy provided they can reject its social state and laws ….
I think that may be able to sum up in one phrase the whole sense of this chapter and of several others that preceded. Democracy .loosens social ties, but tightens natural ones. At the same time as it separates citizens, it brings kindred closer together.
Instructions:
Write a response to the following questions:
1. What was the relationship between fathers and sons in America?
2. How was this relationship different based on class (how were poor families different than rich families)
3. What is de Tocqueville’s assessment of this? ls it good or bad?
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