Sentences with phrase «also use textbooks»

Most of these schools also use textbooks from the A-Beka Book publisher and Bob Jones University Press.

Not exact matches

While other West African crime rings exist and often use these romance ploys, this ring also had two scams that were unique, one involving college textbooks, the other prepaid credit cards.

Haddad recognized Hawkins's deference to the scholarship of Miroslav Volf, whose textbooks are also used at ABTS.

Families can also use it to cover expenses related to tutoring, educational and occupational therapies, educational technology, transportation, testing fees and textbooks.

«We are going to pilot the use of electronic textbooks at the junior and senior high level and if this pilot is successful then we will expand it across the board... We shall expand the progressive free SHS before the end of my term and also extend it to cover boarding students,» he added.

Since not every textbook author can also be an expert in linguistics, computational linguistic tools as we used them in our study can in principle also support authors in the selection and composition of texts.»

The most widely studied set of quantum numbers is that for a single electron in an atom: not only because it is useful in chemistry, being the basic notion behind the periodic table, valence (chemistry) and a host of other properties, but also because it is a solvable and realistic problem, and, as such, finds widespread use in textbooks.

I would divide distance education via the World Wide Web into three categories, each of which incorporates the previous category: The Web can be used as an electronic textbook to disseminate information for users to read (my own personal Web site is a good example); as an electronic textbook with quizzes, which also fosters interactions between the user and the machine, typically in the form of multiple - choice or true / false tests; and as an electronic conference, which goes beyond the electronic textbook to foster interactions between users and teachers.

Heaney, Balete, and Rickart are also authors of a book about the mammals of Luzon Island, just published by Johns Hopkins University Press, that will be used in the Philippines as a college - level textbook.

Further to your commentary about textbooks used under the Accelerated Christian Education programme (25 August), you should also note that...

It is like finding out that equations from an astronomy textbook can also be used to repair a CD - player.

You could also use and adapt the PowerPoints without the textbook.

This professor can use their own knowledge, metaphors, and also have their learners read from the physics textbook...

To the extent that reduced student outcomes would reflect poorly on them, they would also have an incentive to provide the resources teachers, students and parents might need to use the textbook or software effectively,» writes Professor Thomas Kane.

The lessons are planned using the Unit 1 Pearson textbook and specification for the new level 3 NQF course level 2 lessons will also be uploaded - Unit 2 and Unit 4 lessons are already available.

The lessons are planned using the Unit 19 Pearson textbook and specification for the new level 3 NQF course, Unit 1 and 2 lessons are also available, Unit 7 will shortly follow.

The lessons are planned using the Unit 1 Pearson textbook and specification for the new level 3 NQF course level 2 lessons will also be uploaded shortly

Because both public and private schooling have been deeply embedded in society for the past three centuries, educational technology (by which I mean the various communication and information devices and processes that administrators and teachers use to make schooling efficient and effective) also has a rich history (e.g., textbooks, chalkboard, film, radio, computers).

Such solutions not only reduce demand for used and rented print textbooks, but also (and critically) provide functionalities that are not available within OER solutions.

Districts and schools can also use them to evaluate the effects of particular textbooks, teaching units, and professional development activities.

There are also handouts that supplement this work, where students can use their course textbook to make notes / answer questions on the viewpoints of the different political / social groups in Italy.

To the extent that reduced student outcomes would reflect poorly on them, they would also have an incentive to provide the resources teachers, students and parents might need to use the textbook or software effectively.

The main also looks at questioning the Brandt Line using the Avery Hill textbook.

Martirano said he also wasn't sure of the possible impacts on textbooks and other instructional materials aligned to the Common Core standards that are currently used by West Virginia schools.

Schools using the traditional approach also are more likely to be able to use textbooks they used previously and supplement them with additional Common Core - aligned materials.

A core textbook for every pre-service course on reading instruction, this accessible text is also perfect for use in in - service professional development sessions.

He is also devoting his time at his nonprofit, Student Achievement Partners, to create checklists other schools can use to find good textbooks that match the Common Core.

Currently, state law has suspended new textbook adoption through 2015 - 16 and has also provided districts flexibility with use of instructional materials funding through 2014 - 15.

The plan is also likely to spur criticism for its use of about $ 10.3 million in one - time rather than recurring dollars for school textbooks and digital materials, despite long - standing complaints from districts and school leaders that classroom resources have fallen woefully behind in the last decade.

The city also has one of the largest fully digital school districts: 24,000 Huntsville City Schools students use laptops or tablets instead of textbooks.

Zack Kopplin, a student activist who favors rigorous science education, has found more than 300 voucher schools across the U.S. that teach the Biblical story of creation as science; some also instruct children that the world is just several thousand years old and use textbooks describing the Loch Ness Monster as a living dinosaur.

The U.S. DOE's National Education Technology Plans of 2010 and 2016 promoted the concept of using open educational resources, such as digital open textbooks, as being more dynamic and responsive to the context of the classroom over print - based textbooks, while also providing a significant cost savings to school districts.

We also use Chromebooks, tablets, desktop computers, laptops, whiteboards, Promethean boards, and paper sorts from traditional textbooks.

The Core does not prescribe how students should meet those standards, though the English / language arts authors also wrote curriculum guidelines for textbook publishers, and school districts in different states can and are using the same prepackaged lessons.

Also, growing significantly faster than ebook sales, are the rentals of used textbooks which are hitting both rentals of new titles and new print sales.

There is also improved navigation for Print Replica Textbooks: quickly flip through textbook pages and easily jump back - and - forth using the page thumbnails and back / forward buttons.

The survey also reveals that Education and Library & Information Science students, representing 49 % of the total respondents, used printed textbooks more than other majors, including Business and Science.

well in my part, experience isn't the best way of learning, though its effective but still some have many experiences but it still took them to repeatedly do the same thing to learn, just like in using the best gadget won't mean you'd be learning more, learning is not just about experience but it's about how a person comprehend things out, also it's contents matter, textbooks is helpful, specially the digital ones, it helps workers become more efficient in his or her workplace and get more relevant information.

We also have reference textbooks for teens to use while doing homework.

I remember when i used to carry a ton of textbooks and also a ton of notebooks because each subject had a separate notebook to write in, etc..

Used textbooks in stock at Ingram are also available for purchase from leading textbook POS systems and vendors that college bookstores commonly use.

With a completely retuned and upgraded interface, college bookstores can now also manage wholesale buybacks of used textbooks, allowing them to better manage excess inventory and student returns.

Alex also offers a dual screen, which could be used as an Internet browser to supplement a textbook on the main reading screen with such things as a professor's streaming video on a Web site.

Also, B&N has almost no textbooks available for NOOK — their etextbooks are designed for use with their laptop / desktop software program called NOOKstudy.

The KTC format was originally developed for producing textbooks and other educational materials but can also be used to present business books, travel guides, cookbooks, music books and other non-fiction titles which aren't suited to reflowable eBook formats.

While we here at eBook Architects do see a need for DRM protection on certain categories of eBooks, especially expensive eBooks like textbooks, we also think that the use of DRM is not a foolproof method of protecting an eBook from illegal copying.

2) I suspect (and this is a bit of a pet theory of mine) that Apple stays in the ebook space primarily to disrupt the educational textbook market (I think that iBooks Author + iTunesU + «cheap» iPad 2s = a strategy for fostering disruption in education at the grass - roots level); their presence in trade publishing is relatively incidental (this may have not been so at the start — I also suspect that launching iBooks along with iPad was initially a hedge against uncertainty about user adoption and viable use cases for the iPad.

In most cases, renting college textbooks is also usually cheaper than buying and then reselling your used book.

I mentioned textbooks earlier, but you could also sell old CDs, DVDs, books, video games, or any other odd item you have lying around that you haven't used in years.

Most campus bookstores also sell used textbooks for a discounted price although online shopping will most likely save you much more due to the abundance of options.