Sentences with phrase «as mnemonic»

Besides serving as a mnemonic to settle the long debate over how exactly the Chinese company's name is pronounced in English (yes, the «H» is voiced), the question itself is interesting... because according to Huawei's data, almost 80 % of Americans would be unable to answer it.

[D] omain names are akin to a telephone number or business or residential address only; that domain names are but a combination of letters and numbers, which serves as a mnemonic aid, nothing more.

Particularly as mnemonic devise, the posters will help viewers consider the history of sites and the ways in which sites have changed.

Neubauer exploits the photographic image as a mnemonic tool, diffusing the separation of past and present to expose memory as a subjective process.

Employing found photographs, video footage, and footage of feature films as mnemonic devices, artists Marcel Odenbach, Igor Savchenko, Maxim Tyminko, and Vadim Zakharov question the connections between national and personal fates as these are imprinted in local historical memory and universal social history.

I'll use those as mnemonic clues when I practice naming the presidents for our next family duel.

SMART Acronym that may be used as a mnemonic device to memorize the steps of effective goal management.

Songs and rhymes are often suggested as mnemonic devices, even for adult learners.

Mitch has to hum Bo Diddley beats as mnemonic remembrances for the stuff he's got to do.

Davis and Crowther aren't just talking about music as a mnemonic device to help students memorize facts.

Known as mnemonic convergence, these collective memories are influenced both by a person recalling information and by those individuals sharing memories within a group.

BUT, it's also part of an old, old tradition of using songs as mnemonics to preserve information.

• Extra: There are many different types of techniques that people use as mnemonics to memorize something.

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Peter Drucker, the founder of modern business management, often is credited for coming up with the basis for SMART, and the specific mnemonics can be traced back to mentions as early as 1981.

* There are common verbal devices used for structuring memory, such as: thinking memorable thoughts; use of mnemonic, heavily rhythmic and balanced patterns; use of frequent repetitions or antitheses, alliterations and assonances; use of epithetic, formulaic, proverbial sayings; use of standard thematic settings

Just as the advent of literacy undermined the mnemonic skills needed for oral culture, digitization will undermine the skills needed to work «unplugged».

And since we're always forgetting our stroller, as well as my cell phone and wallet, I'll add «Or Snakes» to the end of the mnemonic, the O for «our stuff (meaning my money and phone) and the S for stroller.

Most people, argues Hindmarch, cope with a failing memory by developing new strategies as they age: mnemonics, mental lists and so on.

These associations, as well as the use of simple mnemonics, allowed Shereshevskii to remember long sequences of numbers and letters many years after first hearing them.

In chapter 24 of book VII, on the topic of memory, Pliny mentions king Cyrus of Persia, who knew the names of all his soldiers; Scipio, who knew the names of all in Rome; Cineas, king Pyrrhus's ambassador, who learned the names of all the Roman senators just one day after arriving in Rome; Mithridates Eupator, who administered justice in the 22 languages spoken in his empire; Simonides, inventor of mnemonics; or Charmadas the Greek, who could recite by heart any book from a library as though he were reading it.6

Researchers at the University of California at Irvine describe AJ as the first reported case of a person capable of near - perfect feats of recollection without using mnemonic tricks.

As whales become known, they are given mnemonics, names to aid with identification.

Under certain circumstances squirrels will bury all of the same kind of nut near one another, a mnemonic strategy known as chunking.

«I think about chunking as any shortcutting strategy or mnemonic device that would allow an animal, be it human or otherwise, to increase its memory capacity and improve recall,» Delgado said.

Try this activity again, but this time use a different type of mnemonic, such as an acronym, a funny sentence that uses all of the words on a list and / or words that rhyme.

As was mentioned, mnemonics can also use acronyms, which are words where each letter of the word stands for something.

Soon after, she scored the lead in the movie Johnny Mnemonic, where she did almost all of her own stunts establishing herself as an athletic actress.

This is a very good resource for anyone preparing their students for the Edexcel AS business Theme 1 examination - a peach - perfect mnemonic to help your students answer the 10 mark question.

Use the following link as well as it contains a video about the business in the question: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38928528 My students have started using the mnemonic «PEACH» to write their exam responses - it's really helped them develop their levels of response for the 8, 10 and 20 mark questions.

The demo also shows how to use the right information at the right time by relating scenarios with mnemonic words, such as «PRAT»: Purpose, Relevant, Accurate, Time.

To further encourage your students to take ownership of their learning through self and peer assessment I recommend the T.A.L.K and L.E.A.R.N process T.A.L.K and L.E.A.R.N posters and printable mnemonic bookmarks are available as a value bundle.

«Instead of memorizing lists, students can use some of the mnemonic devices, such as Peg Systems, to help them visualize and remember.»

Learning games help by creating an additional context around the learning material and acts as a subconscious mnemonic technique.

Interventions gleaned from the review were categorized as content enhancement (i.e., advance and graphic organizers, visual displays, mnemonic illustrations, and computer - assisted instruction) or cognitive strategy instruction (i.e., text structure, main idea identification, summarization, questioning, cognitive mapping, reciprocal teaching).

They recommend some activities as well supported - GO FOR IT: Phonological Awareness instruction, Class - wide Peer Tutoring, Mnemonic Instruction, Formative Evaluation, and Direct Instruction.

As teachers or coaches review two or three vocabulary words each day in class, students can add the Greek and Latin roots to the mnemonic device column on the Vocabulary Sheet of the Week.

Apart from these four instructional design strategies, there are other strategies such as case studies, reflective learning, inquiry - based learning, analogies, mnemonics, etc..

For students experiencing difficulty with organizing and memorizing information, teachers may use: (1) mnemonic devices such as the acronym HOMES, which stands for the names of the Great Lakes; (2) riddles, poems, and songs for remembering important people, places, and events; (3) check lists and calendars for organizing and completing assignments; (4) color coding for organizing and accessing materials and assignments (for example, different colored notebooks or dividers for different assignments and subjects); and (5) multisensory assignments and activities for remembering more fully an experience or more thoroughly grasping a concept from a concrete example (for example, construction projects, three - dimensional maps, textured artifacts, period music, dance, and dress, regional dialects and languages, and samples of various cuisines).

In math class, students can use mnemonic devices for memorization, such as Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally for the order of operations.

It's even been proven as a useful mnemonic tool for humans too.

Remember Keanu Reeves as Johnny Mnemonic, traveling around jacking into computers and running from enemy agents?

On your program evaluation, any requirement listed as open studio can be fulfilled by courses with these mnemonics.

In this respect, drawing comprises an important aspect of her practice — once she has selected an image or a topic, she typically makes numerous drawings on that theme as a kind of mnemonic exercise from which her paintings eventually emerge.

Once she has selected an image or a topic, she typically makes numerous drawings on that theme as a kind of mnemonic exercise from which her paintings eventually emerge — a number of these related works on paper will be on view in this exhibition.

In 2002, Doig moved from London to Trinidad, where he had spent several years as a child, and the relocation has added a mnemonic dimension to his work, which has always been very much about mediation; his practice now involves filtering not only art history and source material (usually photographs) but his own memories.

They serve as a sort of mnemonic device.

Depending on the cultural context and the generation these artists belong to, the issue of Home is treated differently by each one: be it through a space both mnemonic and futuristic, woven in networks by Maria Helena Vieira da Silva; the putting of space into a trance through geometries by Louise Nevelson; the vibrating outlines of Vera Pagava; the cement sculptures of Claude de Soria; the full Japanizing nature of Yamamoto Wakako; the space grasped as a Unique line of Abstraction by Fabienne Verdier; the maps, trips and sensations of Zarina Hashmi; or the framework of copper harmonies of Antonella Zazzera.

More interestingly, Pulfer's process includes the use of a mnemonic, usually a short story, used as a node of mental focus while working on a piece or performing.

The curator's accompanying essay describes the exhibition as «about everything that is happening right now», and named after the Ancient Greek and Roman mnemonic device using spatial memory, or «memory palace» as a method for efficient recall.

On a marginally related topic, in the category of mnemonics for things, one way to remember the radius of the Earth is as 20 / π Mm (1 Mm = 1000 km), namely 6.3662.