Sentences with phrase «as an educational tool in»

As an educational tool in itself, media - centric learning represents a creative classroom technique which in itself is better at engaging students.

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While the 3D printing industry has become an increasingly crowded space, Moreno said he sees «huge opportunities on the educational side of 3D printing» especially as a tool to spur product innovation in schools.

«These moving billboards, as we call them, are a great educational tool for the motoring public,» said Elisabeth Barna, ATA's chief operating officer and a member of the TMAF executive committee, at the Mid-America Truck Show in Louisville.

Devise your video so that it can serve as a good branding or educational tool for potential merchants or customers of your marketplace in the long run.

Founded in 2008, the council serves as a research and advocacy group, conducting and publishing studies on industry trends and offering educational tools and resources online.

We bring all the educational tools, videos etc. necessary to make it a hands on class in your home (as well as using whatever items you may have already assembled.)

They observe this correlation firsthand as they cultivate the school garden using materials they find in their everyday classroom lives, and in return, the garden provides educational tools, such as samples for botany classes and plants that can be made into natural dyes for fiber arts projects.

Blue Lizard's patented BPA - free Smart Bottle ™ serves as a valuable educational tool, as it turns blue (or pink for our Baby formula) in the presence of harmful UV rays.

Soil composting reduces the need for chemical fertilizers, helps soil retain moisture, reduces the amount of greenhouse gases produced in landfills and even serves as an educational tool for children about recycling and conservation.

AllergyHome is honored to be listed as a resource in the Voluntary Guidelines for Managing Food Allergies (CDC Food Allergy Guidelines) and we hope that this tool helps schools smoothly implement the educational components of the guidelines and foster communities of support for children with food allergies.

Clear images of the birth process provide an excellent educational tool for students, as well as offering inspiration to those who may not have had the opportunity to see birth in this way.

Standardized tests should be used as diagnostic tools to move children forward in their educational journey and not as a benchmark to stigmatize students and teachers.

The most successful tool your successful nations used in the capture of the resources of the world was their religion, the gun powder as against swords of the world and an educational system based on learning only what they considered as the truth.

Chess in the Schools has been teaching and empowering more than a half - million students in the most underserved communities throughout New York City, since 1986, helping students learn to use chess as an educational tool to promote learning and critical thinking.

Nevertheless, the report claimed: «The MoD's youth policy contradicts this, describing military curricula activities in educational establishments as a «powerful tool for facilitating recruitment especially if the skills developed through curricular activities have a direct bearing on military requirements».»

This best chicken egg incubator is good for use in the home, as an educational tool, or even for a breeder who needs a better way to hatch eggs.

«Originally, we created these as an educational tool for visualizing concepts and ideas — in place of a blackboard and hand waving — to help people see things they never did before,» says Thomas DeFanti, a research scientist at UC San Diego's California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and a pioneer of virtual reality systems.

Historically, a surgeon's skills have been acquired in live patients, anaesthetized animals or human cadavers, but authors say surgical simulation is increasingly recognized as a vital educational tool.

The site is intended as an educational tool to allow individuals to learn about society's past involvement in genetics by exploring primary materials that heretofore have been inaccessible to the layperson.

The SNMMI Learning Center provides members with a wide array of educational content delivered in a variety of modalities, as well as the latest tools to keep track of all of their continuing education activities in one convenient and easy - to - use location.

In collaboration with other medical professionals, Robin has been able to provide educational understanding as well as practical tools which empower others like herself who experience chronic pain and fatigue to take an active role in healing themselveIn collaboration with other medical professionals, Robin has been able to provide educational understanding as well as practical tools which empower others like herself who experience chronic pain and fatigue to take an active role in healing themselvein healing themselves.

Rocksmith 2014 reconfirms itself as an excellent educational tool for learning guitar, especially because is capable to correct those aspects that were lacking in the first version.

Well - written and informative from beginning to end, African American History in the United States of America is an engaging read which proves to be every bit as entertaining as it is a worthwhile educational tool.

In relation to this, Brandon Alcorn, project manager for global initiatives at Penn, notes that students are «using it as a job - training tool rather than an educational tool,» which clearly illustrates their dominant purpose.

The methodological tradition (in the aspect of literary education) can be defined as a function of objective inheritance to educational regularities, being realized in ideas, purposes, tasks, subjects, contents, tools and institutes of literary education.

In Making school meaningful for Indigenous learners Ailsa MacFie uses a body of research, plus her own experiences as a teacher in a high Aboriginal population boarding school in the Northern Territory, to provide practical tools for teachers wanting to improve educational outcomes for Indigenous studentIn Making school meaningful for Indigenous learners Ailsa MacFie uses a body of research, plus her own experiences as a teacher in a high Aboriginal population boarding school in the Northern Territory, to provide practical tools for teachers wanting to improve educational outcomes for Indigenous studentin a high Aboriginal population boarding school in the Northern Territory, to provide practical tools for teachers wanting to improve educational outcomes for Indigenous studentin the Northern Territory, to provide practical tools for teachers wanting to improve educational outcomes for Indigenous students.

«Third Delors Technologies» is the new term proposed for those tools for helping people to «learn to live together» such as generative dialogue, training in bridging leadership and educational programs on glocality.

Most educational technology experts agree, however, that technology should be integrated, not as a separate subject or as a once - in - a-while project, but as a tool to promote and extend student learning on a daily basis.

The materials, videos, and other educational content you've developed in support of your eLearning programs may still be valuable as formal teaching tools, rather than self - teaching resources.

The Programme has generated many different projects and activities such as Youth Forums, skills development training courses, educative workshops and seminars, the World Heritage Volunteer Programme and its main tool, World Heritage in Young Hands (WHYH), an educational resource kit for school teachers, existing in 37 national language versions, and which has reached at least 1 million young students.

Through the Outreach strand, the larger focus of the initiative, researchers develop and support informative and interactive educational experiences which vary in length and time commitment involved as well as those that are designed to meet the needs of different audiences with the ISV network — those new to PZ ideas, those familiar with some PZ frameworks who want to extend their learning to other frameworks and tools, and those with a long history of using certain frameworks who want to deepen and push their practice in new ways.

Now, I am a huge believer in distance learning and the power of online tools, but I deeply believe that by sending the message that real - time teachers are only needed as a luxurious plug - in and not a fundamental fixture of this next educational chapter, we are doing a disservice to our students and the quality of these growing programs.

Blogs may be great educational tools and they give students complete freedom to publish content on the web, but if you don't know how to effectively implement them into the classroom, they're only as good as wadded up balls of paper in the trash.

IMS or SCORM (educational standards used to publish interactive contents in platforms or eLearning tools as Moodle or any other OER (Open Educational Resources) repositories)

I left Macromedia to work at Odeo — which became Twitter — because I believe strongly in the power of Open Source as an educational tool.

That feature is what lost the support of longtime social - justice warrior (and founder of the pro school choice Black Alliance for Educational Options) Howard Fuller, who in July shocked many allies by stating his opposition to the Nevada plan: «Parental choice should be used principally as a tool to empower communities that face systemic barriers to greater educational and economic opportunities... I could never approve of a plan that would give those with existing advantages even greater means to leverage the limited number of private school options, to the detriment of low - income families.»

Previous urban investigations have often resulted in art exhibits and documentaries — some have been shown at New York City's Museum of Modern Art and at national conferences, such as the National Conference for Media Reform, and community organizations regularly use others as educational tools.

Since then, more than 200 new schools each week embrace Soundtrap as a preferred educational tool in their classrooms.

Bill Mitchell, director of education at BCS, which was responsible for originally creating Barefoot Computing in collaboration with the Department for Education, Raspberry Pi and BT, said: «It's essential that all children develop computational thinking skills right from the start of primary school, which is why the Barefoot Computing project is so important as it gives teachers the educational tools they need to develop these skills in their pupils.»

Crucially, researchers are working with children and teachers in school and with the company that produces the robot in order to identify the kind of behaviours that it would be most useful to develop in the robot in order to maximise it as an educational tool for pupils with autism.

I am a firm believer in rehabilitation and education as the «practice of freedom,» thus if we can improve the conditions of their educational experience inside, they may embrace education a liberatory tool of empowerment.

If they aren't implemented properly by the people creating the education platform, payments can cause friction in the user experience, leading to customer dissatisfaction and potential abandonment of the platform as an educational tool.

Within a few short weeks enough money had been raised to buy three laptops that would be used by the volunteers as an educational tool for children in the care of Dream Africa Care Foundation.

Mobile learning is not designed to be an educational tool that works in silo, but as a tool that complements other training measures such as classroom style training and virtual classes.

The FLiC idea was the brainchild of FinLitTV.com, and I believe will serve as the leading social media educational tool in the future.

Over three in five teachers use educational technology every day, and two in five are using - or would like to use - social media as a learning tool as well.

It regards technology as a tool for delivering instruction in new and more powerful ways, for engaging student interest, and enhancing educational productivity and efficiency.

The report shows how to turn the great majority of federal funding distributed to states and districts — Title I and Title II grants — into investments likely to pay off in educational and economic benefits, by reinventing such formula grants as targeted tools that extend excellent teachers» reach in financially sustainable ways, and more effectively direct funds to the students who need them most.

In addition to hearing from education experts, attendees participated in a series of interactive workshops led by the Discovery Education professional development team about creating digital content and integrating mobile and web - based tools into instruction, as well as collaborated with fellow educators on a variety of educational technology projects; and shared ideas and best practices with their peerIn addition to hearing from education experts, attendees participated in a series of interactive workshops led by the Discovery Education professional development team about creating digital content and integrating mobile and web - based tools into instruction, as well as collaborated with fellow educators on a variety of educational technology projects; and shared ideas and best practices with their peerin a series of interactive workshops led by the Discovery Education professional development team about creating digital content and integrating mobile and web - based tools into instruction, as well as collaborated with fellow educators on a variety of educational technology projects; and shared ideas and best practices with their peers.

Consequently, schools, especially in Connecticut's neediest districts, can not afford basic educational tools such as a sufficient number of teachers, reasonable class size, adequate school facilities, services for at - risk children, electives, AP classes, even books, computers and paper.