Sentences with phrase «academic games in»

To fix the system, Coleman proposed academic games in which teams of students competed against those at other schools.

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This fall, a new scholarship from the video game retailer KontrolFreek will award 10 students merit - based scholarships based on their academic accomplishments and collegiate participation in competitive online video games, commonly known as eSports.

In 2016, the video game retailer KontrolFreek awarded 10 students scholarships based on their academic accomplishments and collegiate participation in competitive online video gameIn 2016, the video game retailer KontrolFreek awarded 10 students scholarships based on their academic accomplishments and collegiate participation in competitive online video gamein competitive online video games.

A star player for Princeton in the»80s and then a successful investment banker, he quit the business world in the»90s to coach the game he loves, building a national profile at Brown University with his tough - love approach and emphasis on personal character and academics.

Academics at the AEI, a free - market think tank, have hit on what may be a simple solution to the nation's home - loan morass: replace the 30 - year mortgage with a 15 - year product that quickly gets borrowers» skin in the game.

We are quite pleased to read academic substantiation of our investing style, but we recognize that in academic research it is never «game over.»

We saw a quirky part of Michigan's academic pitch during the big U-M-MSU football game on Oct. 7 in Ann Arbor when Spartan head coach Mark Dantonio and Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh both wore headsets with the logo #AmazonDetroit.

For example, in «game theory,» an aptly named part of high academic economics, it has been discovered that games (such as the nuclear arms race or participation in an economy) can not be played with prudence - only rules.

At Vanderbilt the constituencies were reassured that the university was persisting in its primal Christian commitment because of high standards in academics, or a liberal or broad or thorough curriculum, or freedom from dogmatism, or the cultivation of moral character, or social conscience regarding racial integration or the relief of poverty, or decorum and discipline in fraternities and at football games.

Increasing the debt ceiling is the rational last stage in this sequential game, and it is part of what the academic literature of game theory calls a subgame - perfect strategy.

Florida State will play its first three games without seven anticipated starters who were suspended for their role in an academic fraud scandal last year....

Don't concede an early goal Being an away side, it is academic that you need to be a little circumspect and not fall behind the 8 - ball early on in the game.

BOWLS AND EXAMS Sir: As the athletic academic counselor at the University of Missouri, I, too, was concerned about our football team's accepting a bid to play in a bowl game — the Tangerine — whose date conflicted with our final - exam week (SCORECARD, Dec. 21).

In addition, the smaller schools are less likely to have access to lighted fields, and during January, will have to start games at 3 p.m. — which means players will have to leave school as early as 1 p.m. to get to games, and that really doesn't help anyone's academics.

The question is an academic one as far as Fabio Capello is concerned, because Rooney is banned from England's next competitive games and therefore unlikely to feature in any of the preceding friendlies, yet one would doubt very much that the Italian left Old Trafford on Wednesday pondering whether to leave out Scott Parker or Gareth Barry to accommodate Rooney when he next becomes available, or thrilled at the prospect of giving Darren Bent or Jermain Defoe a clear run up front instead.

While you may find it challenging to pull your little ones away from their iPad or Xbox, the truth is that playing Minecraft (and video games in general) can be beneficial for your kids on many levels, including problem solving, building self - confidence, enhancing creativity, understanding teamwork and improving academic performance.

«Cognitive activities such as watching television, listening to music, using the computer, text messaging, playing video games, concentrating in the classroom, and completing academic assignments can place additional neurometabolic demand on the brain because they all require mental exertion.

Chris Game does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

For those who experience longer periods of researching and academic writing, getting back into social life may be rather awkward at first: when you do not see your friends for a week or two, it sometimes takes you some accommodation time to get back in the game.

With video games, phones and the internet in abundance, this article in Educational Psychology examines if such leisure activity is impacting children's cognition or academic performance or whether it would be more beneficial to read.

And the soft - spoken academic did his best imitation of a football coach before the big game in an effort to fire them up.

The magazine's popularity makes it imperative for academics to stay in the game, says John Vaughn of the Association of American Universities.

This may seem like a more academic version of the video game Tetris, but the techniques developed can be applied to 3D problems in the real world.

«It's the academic growth [I] gained, and the exposure and enrichment [that] afforded me an insight into a possible career in this area,» said this student, «I am already ahead in the game related to a possible college curriculum of interest.»

«The end game,» says Granger, «is to mobilize a network of scientists and professionals in academics and industry, provide them access to specialized tools, and then harness what we can learn from the markers present in oral fluids to make a difference in people's lives.»

Early in the game of creating a company, says Perls, perhaps the most important player with which an academic scientist should communicate is the institutional conflict - of - interest panel, whose job is to assure that financial stakes with a commercial entity don't bias research results or compromise the safety of human subjects.

Limitations For all of the enthusiasm around games and learning, very few studies have examined whether video games improve classroom performance and academic achievement, says Emma Blakey, PhD researcher in developmental psychology at the University of Sheffield in England.

The paper: Why «the best way of learning to coach the game is playing the game»: conceptualising «fast - tracked» high - performance coaching pathways was published in the academic journal Sport, Education and Society.

«Because we know memory is a crucial cognitive skill for school learning, practice at playing games that challenge memory should, in theory, lead to improvements in classroom behavior and academic skills,» she says.

I wanted to try something different — a career in which I didn't have to play the academic game of «publish or perish.»

«Drug discovery is inherently risky, but the role of academics and start - ups is to provide game - changing discoveries that are the result of prolonged investigations in basic science, and can ultimately have a significant impact on human and animal health.»

Branson enjoys playing board games and programming in his spare time, and hopes to continue his career in academic research.

A Game of Honor: An inside look at the military training, academics and athletic preparation for the cadets and midshipmen that culminate in each year's Army - Navy Football Game.

In fact, he has his heart set on making the school's academic team, which is supposed to compete on a television game show.

Maggie's Plan entangles Gerwig's serial bachelorette career woman with Ethan Hawke's struggling academic and his wife, a neurotic Swedish scholar played by Julianne Moore, in a game of who loves who.

Coleman proposed that schools should replace the competition for grades with interscholastic academic games, «systematically organized competitions, tournaments and meets in all activities,» from math and English to home economics and industrial arts.

The power of culture - and its effect on student achievement - is evident in adolescents» lesser concentration on academic endeavors as they focus more on television, video games, and excessive employment during the school year.

Dr. Farber is a former classroom teacher who led the way in bringing games to the classroom, as an academic on the topic and as an author about the implementation of games in the classroom.

Encourage use of text - to - speech: In later grades, students with dyslexia will need to access text that is above their academic ability in order to complete class assignments, and text - to - speech can be a real game changeIn later grades, students with dyslexia will need to access text that is above their academic ability in order to complete class assignments, and text - to - speech can be a real game changein order to complete class assignments, and text - to - speech can be a real game changer.

So in addition to the methods already discussed, we reinforce new vocabulary knowledge in other ways, such as regular classroom games, use of Vine and Instagram to create definitions of the words (we show an example below, and you can see more here), and having students use online academic vocabulary exercises (our favorites are Vocabulary Exercises For The Academic Word List, The Academic Word List at UoP and English academic vocabulary exercises (our favorites are Vocabulary Exercises For The Academic Word List, The Academic Word List at UoP and English Academic Word List, The Academic Word List at UoP and English Academic Word List at UoP and English Online).

In the two schools that had reopened, the Ed School students provided administrative and academic support in a number of areas, including in - classroom support through reading groups, one - on - one tutoring, and substitute teaching; organization and distribution of school uniforms; help to renew the libraries; and organization of after school electives such as Latin dancing, basketball tournaments, soccer games, and chess clubIn the two schools that had reopened, the Ed School students provided administrative and academic support in a number of areas, including in - classroom support through reading groups, one - on - one tutoring, and substitute teaching; organization and distribution of school uniforms; help to renew the libraries; and organization of after school electives such as Latin dancing, basketball tournaments, soccer games, and chess clubin a number of areas, including in - classroom support through reading groups, one - on - one tutoring, and substitute teaching; organization and distribution of school uniforms; help to renew the libraries; and organization of after school electives such as Latin dancing, basketball tournaments, soccer games, and chess clubin - classroom support through reading groups, one - on - one tutoring, and substitute teaching; organization and distribution of school uniforms; help to renew the libraries; and organization of after school electives such as Latin dancing, basketball tournaments, soccer games, and chess clubs.

This summer, we will once again be providing our middle school students with an academic summer camp that is aimed not only at reducing the summer learning loss gap, but also positioning students to be ahead of the game when they return to school in the fall.

In autumn 2014, the White House Education Game Jam invited developers, educators, students, and academics to participate.

«Game Plan for Learning: Building on Coleman's early theories, new academic competitions motivate students to achieve» will be available Wednesday, January 20 on educationnext.org and will appear in the Spring 2016 issue of Education Next, on newsstands by March 1.

That study sparked his interest in developing competitive academic games.

In «Game Plan for Learning: Building on Coleman's early theories, new academic competitions motivate students to achieve,» USA Today's Greg Toppo revisits James S. Coleman's oft - forgotten findings on teen culture, exploring how educators today can use academic competition to foster engagement, motivation, and student achievement.

An alternative way of structuring academic football is to pit one team against another on a single gridiron as in the real game of football.

In this week's EdNext podcast, Marty West of EdNext talks with Greg Toppo about academic games and James Coleman's idea that they could be used to increase motivation and academic performance among teens.

Most importantly, research shows that video games sharpen visual discrimination skills, spatial thinking, and the ability to visualize and interact with 3D objects — good predictors of not only academic achievement but future engagement and success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — the STEM fields.

Then learners practice social or academic skills — often in the form of a game or dramatization.