Sentences with phrase «approach to learning science»

These are the questions that the students in Mark Gould's science classroom are discovering the answers to as they embark on a hands - on approach to learning science.

Mad Science is a unique program that provides kids with a hands - on approach to learning science.

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In other words, a fundamentalist approach to the scriptures is unable to respond positively to developments in modern science and other areas of learning.

If I were choosing recent books in this area which most deserve to be read outside the country, I would start with Oliver O'Donovan's political theology in The Desire of the Nations; John Milbank's critique of the social sciences in Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from theology.

But the history of science — by far the most successful claim to knowledge accessible to humans — teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that absolute certainty will always elude us» - Carl Sagan (from «The Demon - Haunted World»)

For the record I must clarify while I absolutely respect & DO recommend learning the science / research behind Dr. Fuhrman's Nutritarian lifestyle (I eat 95 % of the types of foods he endorses) I found two major shortfalls to his approach:

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«The team science approach pioneered at Berkeley Lab is being put to use to integrate all the information within the machine learning context,» said Wainwright.

The new book Teaching and Learning of Energy in K - 12 is a product of that summit and the first volume to consider energy as a concept that cuts across the science disciplines, an approach that is consistent with the recommendations in the Next Generation Science Stascience disciplines, an approach that is consistent with the recommendations in the Next Generation Science StaScience Standards.

Roseman's presentation, «Achieving Science Literacy for All: Contributions from AAAS Project 2061,» described the origins of Project 2061, its standards - based approach to improving science teaching and learning, and its current efforts to help educators achieve science literacy fScience Literacy for All: Contributions from AAAS Project 2061,» described the origins of Project 2061, its standards - based approach to improving science teaching and learning, and its current efforts to help educators achieve science literacy fscience teaching and learning, and its current efforts to help educators achieve science literacy fscience literacy for all.

As U.S. officials consider new education standards in mathematics and English, a long - term AAAS science literacy initiative continues its efforts to encourage a standards - based approach to science education and set specific learning goals for K - 12 students.

Last week, at the Association for Computational Linguistics» Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory won a best - paper award for a new approach to information extraction that turns conventional machine learning on its head.

He believes that such approaches to science sometimes require researchers to learn new skills, and to challenge their assumptions about how to best use their knowledge.

A study conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the traditional model of education versus an increasingly popular approach to learning in the health sciences fields — the flipped classroom model — where pre-recorded lectures are viewed outside of the classroom and in - person class time is devoted to interactive exercises, discussions, and group projects.

Following the reductionist approach of physics, his plan was to construct simple computer models of the brain that employed a variety of learning algorithms and «see which ones work,» said Hinton, who splits his time between the University of Toronto, where he is a professor of computer science, and Google.

Through professional development workshops, AAAS's Project 2061 helps science educators — from elementary school teachers through college faculty — take a more coherent approach to teaching and learning.

As part of the broader Generating Genius program, Richards facilitated and hosted a school challenge at ICL that paired pupils from inner city schools and Eton College, the prestigious public school, to help them understand different approaches to learning by solving science and engineering - based challenges together.

A team of researchers from the Smithsonian Department of Botany, Data Science Lab, and Digitization Program Office recently collaborated with NVIDIA to carry out a pilot project using deep learning approaches to dig into digitized herbarium specimens.

In these test settings, various science curricula were revamped to get them to jibe with the latest cognitive science research on effective learning, which points to more interactive approaches that include immediately and repeatedly putting new information to use.

Bermudez and collaborators at the veterinary college, as well as researchers at Oregon State's colleges of science and pharmacy and Oregon Health & Science University, took a biology - driven approach to learn how Mtb prolongs survival following exposure to bactericidal concentrations of antimicrscience and pharmacy and Oregon Health & Science University, took a biology - driven approach to learn how Mtb prolongs survival following exposure to bactericidal concentrations of antimicrScience University, took a biology - driven approach to learn how Mtb prolongs survival following exposure to bactericidal concentrations of antimicrobials.

Intensive training programs like the one Heil attended can be great ways for early - career scientists to learn about nontraditional approaches to conducting science, hone specific research skills, get a crash course in a new field, explore interdisciplinary research, or use focused time to make headway in their work.

The lessons learnt from such initiatives have helped develop approaches to citizen science and have inspired new projects both within and among countries.

«Deep learning approaches have just started to be applied for agricultural applications, and we foresee a huge potential of such technologies for future innovations in this area,» says Jian Peng, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at U of I, and a co-author and co-principal investigator of the new study.

With Singapore's two major universities geared up to prepare a new generation of workers to drive the new life sciences - based economy, university students in Singapore can now expect to have more choices in tertiary education — a multidisciplinary approach to learning — and to be in a better position to face the future.

We contribute to the training of the next generation of scientists and engineers, collaborate with K - 12 teachers on ways to improve science teaching using an inquiry - based approach to learning, and improve the science literacy of the community at large.

By listening to the acoustic signal emitted by a laboratory - created earthquake, a computer science approach using machine learning can predict the time remaining before the fault fails.

The Educapoles platform delivers a fresh approach to the scientific process by enabling teachers to explore climate and polar science with their students through the use of creative tools and learning methods.

Using a rapid learning approach, the goal of M2Gen is to accelerate the science of precision medicine by creating evidence and knowledge - based solutions that identify a patient's susceptibility to disease, predict how the patient will respond to a particular drug, and match patients to the best therapies for an optimal treatment outcome.

Educapoles, the International Polar Foundation's science education platform, delivers a fresh, accessible approach to the scientific process by enabling teachers to explore climate and polar science with their students through the use of creative tools and learning methods.

But when I learned about functional medicine — which is an evidence - based high tech science driven approach to holistic medicine — I fell in love, and knew that there was no going back.

Learn how you can reach optimal health through a whole food eating plan that integrates ancient wisdom with an innovative, science - based approach to health and wellness.

Learn about a powerful science - based approach to nutrition that can dramatically reduce the risk of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity and can improve the way you feel.

But when I learned about functional medicine - which is an evidence - based high tech science driven approach to holistic medicine - I fell in love, and knew that there was no going back.

This review defines «inquiry - based science instruction,» and synthesizes research published from 1984 to 2002 to examine the impact of such instruction on K - 12 student science conceptual learning, using a mixed - methodology approach.

But because student - performance data on the state's standardized science exam indicated that our students did not understand these subject areas in a deep and meaningful way, the teachers decided to use a new approach: They chose to embrace a project - learning strategy to connect science and colonial history through a local historic site that dates back to the 1640s, the Saugus Iron Works.

Also, Anderson is one of the few political philosophers who try to integrate serious social science data into their work; since this is something I try to do as well, I wanted to learn from her approach.

Greg Whitby speaks to Rosei Espedido, Maths and Science teacher at Parramatta Marist High School, about the school's approach to project - based learning.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

New approaches, he says, could focus on social and emotional development as well, since science now tells us that relationships and interactions with the environment sculpt the areas of the brain that control behavior (like the ability to concentrate), which also can affect academic achievement (like learning to read).

«I hope that through the classroom environment we have created together and the inquiry - based teaching and learning approach that I use, that each student really believes in and strives to achieve his or her best in our science and maths classrooms,» she says.

They maintain that a more straightforward approach — known as direct instruction — has the potential to help students learn science more effectively.

Our mission is to advance the science of health and learning, and to approach the transfer of knowledge from the academy to the world of policy and practice as a scholarly pursuit in its own right.

Reinventing High School (The Christian Science Monitor) Jal Mehta comments on how to bring deeper learning into classrooms, and what kind of shift that would require in schools and their approaches to learning.

«At MIT, we approach the problem as scientists and engineers: by seeking to understand the brain science of how learning happens, and by building innovative technologies and solutions to help.

Its strategy draws on advances in the biological, behavioral, and social sciences to: (1) identify causal mechanisms that influence developmental trajectories; (2) formulate theories of change about how to produce better outcomes; and (3) design and test new intervention approaches and measure their effectiveness in reducing barriers to learning and strengthening the foundations of lifelong physical and mental health.

They will phase in, over the next few months, a mandatory mastery - learning approach in reading and mathematics for all of the city's 123 public elementary schools, according to James J. Sarnecki, the district's supervisor of elementary mathematics and sciences.

Hernandez argues that early childhood apps are well poised to incorporate insights from learning sciences into their approaches.

Now we have objective evidence of what does work in the learning and teaching process, which opens a new approach that can be applied to science instruction.

As Education Next editor Frederick Hess and I explain in a forthcoming book about learning science, technology, and education leadership, to make the best use of data we need to take a «learning engineering» approach.

This hands - on approach to learning computer science concepts should prove an engaging and open - ended starting point.