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Negotiation Final Project: Apple v. Samsung

Negotiation in the Smartphone Battles: Apple v. Samsung Maria Voicu Tim Wilson Kelsey Giroux Ross Ferris Endicott College For the past four years, Apple and Samsung have been the key players of an unprecedented legal war. It started in 2010 with Samsung’s launch of Galaxy S smartphone, which to Steve Job’s disbelief resembled and used similar technology to the iPhone, the breakthrough phone that his company launched three years before. Disputes over patents, technology, and innovation cost both companies tens of millions, spanned four continents, and five years later has seen little resolution. Background Samsung and Apple are both goliaths in the personal computing industry. Apple is an American prominent hardware and software company founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Stephen Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. It designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics. Apple enjoys a high level of brand loyalty and is the one of the world's most valuable brand. Throughout the...

Scientific Inquiry Method Assignment

Assignment 1: Scientific Inquiry Method My school is a PYP school which, by design, focuses on promoting students’ inquiry and developing strategies for them to follow their own inquiries. In, what we call PYP 6 (third grade), the unit this term is “ Energy is fundamental to our daily lives”, which carries through to all of the students’ learning experiences including those in physical education class. The head of PE asked me if I had any ideas on how they could explore the concept of energy within their PE classes (I used to teach PE so he often asks my input). After talking through a few ideas I thought, wow this would be a perfect opportunity to develop this unit and the process of getting to the learning objectives using the scientific inquiry method. There are two learning objectives that we are going to focus on. By the end of the unit students will understand the concepts of: § ...

Learning Process Blogs for Student Led Conferences

Edutopia article about Student Led Conferences This document is my final project for MIEA 580 Innovative Practices course at Endicott. The project outlines an innovation and the process for the implementation of it within my school. I have included the entire text within the the body of this post. Rooting of the innovation itself The International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) has a shifted approach toward learning than that of traditional models. One of the tenants of this shift is the focus on students understanding the process of how they learn and reflecting upon this process. Summative assessments in the Middle Years Program (MYP) fall under four different criteria categories: knowing and understanding, investigating, communicating, and thinking critically. Each of these criterion are broken down into specific strands and the MYP requires that each strand is assessed at ...

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