Sentences with phrase «connection to the real world»

We want our students not only to make connections to real world problems but also to do these activities.

Even when the task might have great connection to the real world, it can still just be that: a task to complete.

With these video apps, teachers can help students gain background knowledge of a topic and make connections to the real world.

I think we need to stop looking at sin and immorality as purely spiritual realities without real connection to the real world; and we need to stop seeing righteousness as an end unto itself.

One aspect of Carr's piece that jumps out at me is that he seems to speak of online activism in the abstract, as something taking place out in the aether without much connection to the real world.

Quantum theory is odd, not just because its weird predictions are a source of consternation for physicists and philosophers, but because its mathematical structures bear no obvious connection to the real world, as far as we can see.

Although this curriculum has been effective at teaching undergraduates genetics and biotechnology, which has been documented through publications, the assessments have demonstrated that this curriculum is not leading the students to make connections to real world issues that build on plant genetics.

Storytelling and its intricate connections to the real world have always preoccupied Miguel Gomes.

Altruistic Service provides an excellent opportunity to create relevance and meaningful connections to the real world for our students.

In Education Week, a student from New Leader - led Envision Academy shares how her teachers draw connections to the real world to make her learning deeper and more meaningful.

From rescuing hostages in Abu Sayyaf's stronghold in the Philippines to assaulting Al - Shabaab's «Pirate Town» on the Somali Coast, the game puts players in the boots of today's most highly trained and skilled warriors to experience missions that have an intense sensory connection to real world terrorist threats.

Colourful and imaginative, they are mainly abstract, but with strong connections to the real world.

With no recognizable connection to the real world, these works are known as non-objective art.

In as much as there is a kind of hovering connection to the real world, artists working in abstraction directly before and after AbEx — for instance, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Ryman, Paul Feeley or Kenneth Noland — seem much more like kindred spirits.

Students demonstrate these concepts through the processes of problem solving, communication, reasoning and proof, and making connections to the real world.

She also documents the evolving nature of these concepts in the international business and management literature and their connection to real world phenomena.

I don't mean enlightenment in an intangible way, with no connection to the real world.

And, as many of you PBL practitioners could tell, that 30 - minute «Introductory Classroom Activity» sure sounds (almost) like an Entry Event — there's an engaging activity, a connection to the real world, a challenge and a preview of what the task is.

Many teachers utilize technology and employ the flipped classroom model for instruction, but the key to connecting with this type of learner lies not only in the delivery of the content, but the connection to real world experiences.

Once we had the project we were then able to draw upon community resources such as Urban Planning lecturers from our local university, Project Managers and Urban Planners (two of whom were female) to provide the girls with insight into these careers and use their expert knowledge.I think the connection to a real world application and using a problem based learning pedagogy has been very important.

The First - Year Learning Communities, our award - winning, nationally recognized model, utilizes small learning groups to encourage students to draw connections across different fields of study and apply those connections to the real world.

The result is what is referred to as the «silos of schooling» that often appear to students as boring and irrelevant, «hermetically sealed containers» of academic content — with no connection to the real world outside of school.

If students believe that school is boring, that they are stupid, that it shouldn't feel this hard, and that it has no connection to the real world, then they will regard every assignment, no matter how standards - based or authentic the task, as little more than busywork.

The Butterfly Pavilion located between Denver and Boulder is a giant nature capsule featuring interactive experiences for families and showcasing small wonders and their connections to the real world.

In trying to make a connection to the real world he was responding to the Abstract Expressionists, a generation of painters who dominated the New York scene when he was coming of age as an artist.

Maintaining the connection to the real world, Gall's paintings are still abstract in their subject and play with the illusion of cut - outs — the meticulously painted holes, shadows and apparent kinks perfectly imitate the materiality of paper.

There is an element that is lacking, and I believe it is a connection to the real world, that is the thesis behind my article.

This is inductivist pre-renaissance armchair theorising without any connection to the real world.