Sentences with phrase «as constructing knowledge»

It is appropriate for coaches to consider feedback as constructing knowledge rather than transmitted information.

Learning comes about through transactions among students and between faculty and students, in a social setting, as they construct a knowledge base.»

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As far as whether or not there's been empirical evidence demonstrating this, not to my knowledge, I think it would be difficult to construct such a study for a couple reasonAs far as whether or not there's been empirical evidence demonstrating this, not to my knowledge, I think it would be difficult to construct such a study for a couple reasonas whether or not there's been empirical evidence demonstrating this, not to my knowledge, I think it would be difficult to construct such a study for a couple reasons.

Others, such as the chapter on «objections» to the claim that we can be certain of at least some moral knowledge, are written in dialogue form, opening the way for hostile critics to suggest that Budziszewski constructs and demolishes his own straw men.

The religions of today are more sophisticated, more carefully constructed in such a way that they have managed to survive the increased knowledge we have of the world, but they are just as much fairytales as the stories of Thor or Zeus, and with no more evidence to support them.

This understanding is not new; Aristotle's view of life in the polis as understood and constructed is similar: such knowledge is grounded in concrete history within the norms, values, and hopes of the community.

Calvin asked whether human beings have a natural knowledge of God (his answer was yes); whether they can arrange what they know from nature into an intelligible pattern known as natural theology (his answer was no); and whether redeemed — and only redeemed — human beings can construct a legitimate theology of nature by reclaiming nature as a useful source of the true knowledge of God (his answer was yes).

More generally, it stands within the «realist» tradition in affirming the objective reality of the orders of truth and other kinds of excellence, as against nominalists and subjectivists who believe that knowledge is essentially a human construct and values are nothing but human preferences.

The telling point that Galileo presented ironically was that if you really wanted to start from a small number of entities, you could always consider the letters of the alphabet as the fundamental entities, since you could construct the whole of human knowledge out of them.

With that discovery it becomes impossible even for a moment to take seriously either a realistic metaphysics according to which metaphysical propositions state our empirical knowledge of the categorical characteristics of reality, or an idealistic or psychological metaphysics according to which these depend upon the way in which the human mind as such is always and everywhere constructed... We must start again at the beginning and construct a new metaphysical theory which will face the facts revealed by history.

The book Women's Ways of Knowing identifies the following kinds of knowledge: received, subjective (in terms of the inner voice and the quest for self), procedural (reason as well as separate and connected knowing) and constructed.

The most urgent immediate task, therefore, is the development of education on the basis of the sciences, both natural and social, for only with their help can society as a whole be taught to construct a life completely in accordance with that knowledge which has become the factor by which our age is distinguished from all preceding periods of history.

Second, the rise of orientalism as a mechanism of knowledge production, which constructed the eastern world as the Other in relation to the western Self.

I made a commitment to check it out and call back the resident, and within 10 minutes I had three statements from two attorneys and a former town supervisor, who all had personal knowledge, that the structure was constructed approximately 60 years ago by the property owner as a park to take his girlfriend to.

An intelligence - based decision tool has been constructed by WMG, based on the big data mining and knowledge from experts, to enable companies such as JCB to target specific machines among their fleets for hybridisation.

Academic research is curiosity driven, not market driven, and responds to the search for knowledge and understanding in areas as diverse as health, culture, social constructs, astronomy, education, economics, particle physics... a list of topics as diverse as the human imagination.

The theory is considered «constructivist», meaning that, unlike nativist theories (which describe cognitive development as the unfolding of innate knowledge and abilities) or empiricist theories (which describe cognitive development as the gradual acquisition of knowledge through experience), it asserts that we construct our cognitive abilities through self - motivated action in the world.

Lucy is the more fun and successful of the two, mostly for Besson's ability to understand his limitations in terms of what he can achieve as a filmmaker, and his knowledge of how to construct his films to appeal to a worldwide audience.

I wanted to build what I now call a thinking classroom — one that's not only conducive to thinking but also occasions thinking, a space inhabited by thinking individuals as well as individuals thinking collectively, learning together, and constructing knowledge and understanding through activity and discussion.

Students need to be explicitly taught and given opportunities to practice using executive functions to organize, prioritize, compare, contrast, connect to prior knowledge, give new examples of a concept, participate in open - ended discussions, synthesize new learning into concise summaries, and symbolize new learning into new mental constructs, such as through the arts or writing across the curriculum.

In my own reflections I have found they engage students as knowledge makers, invites writers to clarify and develop their own ideas and actively construct knowledge, and offers an opportunity for fruitful conversations.

I certainly could have simply told passive students the definition of this term and what it means, but by enabling them to actively construct their own knowledge, they internalize the ideas more deeply — as well as internalize their ability to have voice and agency in an academic setting.»

They report that prominent organizations such as the National Research Council and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, for at least the last three decades, have «called for teachers to engage students in constructing their own new knowledge through more hands - on learning and group work.»

Interactivity plays a great role in the latter, as instructional interactivity stimulates your learners» minds by responding to their actions and helping them constructing and demonstrating the knowledge you are offering them.

The algorithmic basis of GIS shows great potential in simulation development as algorithms are constructed from initial knowledge bases, which are publicly available with use of the internet.

The SAPERE's Philosophy 4 Children (P4C) sessions include stimuli such as a short video clip or story to prompt structured discussions around topics like truth, knowledge and fairness, with the aim of helping children to become more willing and able to ask questions, construct arguments and engage in reasoned discussion.

In an age when simple facts can be Googled and students create with a combination of analog and digital tools, they need to think about note taking as an opportunity to curate and synthesize information so that they can make conclusions, build deeper understanding, and construct new knowledge.

As Resnick says of her style, «Karen is a true constructionist, recognizing that knowledge can not be delivered by the teacher but must be actively constructed by the learner.»

• Detailed Rubric with criteria for 4 levels • Exemplar Clock Pictures - level 3 and 4 clocks to help students construct success criteria Their knowledge of solving equations, simple and multi-step, through applying opposite operations is solidified and thoroughly tested as they work backwards and forwards to create and check their equations.

As a consequence, prominent organizations such as the National Research Council and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, since at least 1980, have called for teachers to engage students in constructing their own new knowledge through more hands - on learning and group worAs a consequence, prominent organizations such as the National Research Council and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, since at least 1980, have called for teachers to engage students in constructing their own new knowledge through more hands - on learning and group woras the National Research Council and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, since at least 1980, have called for teachers to engage students in constructing their own new knowledge through more hands - on learning and group work.

The CALS construct is defined as a constellation of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written academic discourse across school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge of structures for organizing argumentative texts) Over the last years, as part of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.

Help teachers involve students in real intellectual work - in thinking critically and constructing knowledge as they investigate historical artifacts and other materials that engage their minds and imaginations.

And learning is often constructed as gaining knowledge, comprehension, or mastery of something through experience or study.

Says Givens, Woodson saw the week as an opportunity to bring about «an epistemic shift in schools» — for teachers to illuminate the way racial power operated in America, and for students to reimagine the ways knowledge and history were constructed.

On the other hand, proponents of the view that history is about facts and dates would regard essay - based tests as deeply flawed, since they assess students» writing and linguistic skills as well as historical knowledge (what is sometimes called «construct - irrelevant variance»).

Those who choose to participate and present at the upcoming conferences are encouraged to make a strong case for their practices and teaching as derived from a robust knowledge base and set of theoretical constructs that guide the roles they assume.

Pedagogical knowledge of technology (now commonly referred to as Technological Pedagogical Knowledge or TPK) is closely related to Shulman's (1987) pedagogical knowledge construct, which is defined as the teachers» knowledge of teaching procedures such as effective strategies for planning, classroom routines, behavior management techniques, classroom organizational procedures, and motivational teknowledge of technology (now commonly referred to as Technological Pedagogical Knowledge or TPK) is closely related to Shulman's (1987) pedagogical knowledge construct, which is defined as the teachers» knowledge of teaching procedures such as effective strategies for planning, classroom routines, behavior management techniques, classroom organizational procedures, and motivational teKnowledge or TPK) is closely related to Shulman's (1987) pedagogical knowledge construct, which is defined as the teachers» knowledge of teaching procedures such as effective strategies for planning, classroom routines, behavior management techniques, classroom organizational procedures, and motivational teknowledge construct, which is defined as the teachers» knowledge of teaching procedures such as effective strategies for planning, classroom routines, behavior management techniques, classroom organizational procedures, and motivational teknowledge of teaching procedures such as effective strategies for planning, classroom routines, behavior management techniques, classroom organizational procedures, and motivational techniques.

The assessment measures the student's ability to construct meaning from text using word recognition skills, background information and prior knowledge, familiarity with linguistic properties such as syntax and morphology, and cause and effect reasoning skills.

Through their projects they construct theoretical knowledge of multiliteracies as they become digital storytellers of their own identities, and they construct technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK) about how to integrate such digital video technology in their future classrooms.

This initial distinction should be followed with experiences that allow the preservice teachers to experiment with AT and IT in ways that lead to the eventual merger of the technology knowledge construct, so that preservice teachers in the final year of their program can parse AT and IT but also describe how the two overlap and compliment each other as one construct.

Students can construct meaning for themselves as an active part of the learning and character development process, and begin to understand the world through many sources of knowledge.

You want to expose students to a variety of item types, such as constructed response items and technology - enhanced items, so they develop very flexible knowledge.

The case - based approach provides prospective and practicing teachers with a narrative «foundation» for classroom knowledge that can be constructed and analyzed as «wisdom of practice.»

«Specifically, we documented how the Mills Teacher Scholars Teacher Leadership Network meetings (a) offered safe thinking spaces that positioned teachers as intellectual professionals who could socially construct knowledge and learn together, (b) allowed teachers to surface and name the complexities and uncertainties inherent to teaching that would undoubtedly arise as they sought to facilitate learning communities at their school sites, and (c) provided guidance for teachers through a parallel process, that is, modeling for them and supporting them in experiencing firsthand what they would be responsible for enacting and scaffolding with their teaching colleagues.»

As someone familiar with many social practices of Web 2.0, Ed Cator seemed to recognize the value and place of «wild thinking, creating one's own definitions and rules... being «naughty»... and constructing knowledge» with other teachers across time and space; however, this study, coupled with published and anecdotal evidence in teacher education, suggests that many preservice teachers, practicing teachers, and even doctoral students in teacher education have had limited opportunities for professional collaboration or serious epistemic roles in education — especially in school - based professional development and university - based teacher education.

In these learner - centered environments the preservice teacher candidates constructed their knowledge through active participation in their own educational process and the educational processes of their peers (as in Schunk, 2000).

In our case, teachers and a teacher educator were not only hesitant to assume the position of expert in the wikispace, they were not especially comfortable with new digital epistemologies that replace traditional notions of truth with an emphasis on knowing how to construct knowledge collaboratively, gain or structure attention, invent new rules and conventions, or innovate successfully in contexts where there are few or no established rules (as also found by Knobel & Lankshear, 2006).

If they can't find the knowledge within the group, they can find it beyond the group, such as from other groups or on the Internet, or they have to face up to constructing new knowledge if it does not exist.1

Classrooms need to be re-designed to focus on students being allowed to be active in constructing their knowledge, as opposed to what the teacher should do to disseminate information.

We know that students learn most fully when they are given the opportunity to construct their own knowledge, as a result of rich experiences and exchanges, and with respect for their own backgrounds and understandings of the world.