Sentences with phrase «constructing new knowledge»

The collaborative approach results in constructing new knowledge about deep learning and shifts practice.

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

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.

That they build upon their prior knowledge and to be effective, learning needs to be active and allow the participants to construct new knowledge from their experiences

«The whole premise of uncommon learning is to increase relevance, add context, acquire then apply essential skills, construct new knowledge, and enhance critical literacies.

Develops teachers» abilities to understand and relate to their students and, therefore, to teach more effectively by helping students construct new knowledge in relation to prior knowledge and experience.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

This new and developing form of human consciousness is still far from universal, but the world that we each create in our heads1 (our mental picture of reality) is now being constructed rather differently, by absorbing innumerable bits of knowledge and information from all over the world, not just from our own small locality.

Full credit must be given to St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225 - 74), who, building upon the work of his teacher Albertus, constructed such a magnificent synthesis of traditional Christian doctrine and of the new knowledge that it became the standard expression of Christian doctrine for the Roman Catholic Church up until the present day.

Exploring the archive in unusual ways and making connections across categories of knowledge and fields of meaning, Gatten's movies construct new compositions and generate unexpected conclusions from 19th - century scientific treatises, «out - dated» 20th - century instructional texts, and rare books from 18th - century personal libraries.

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.

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.»

Drawing on his personal interactions with Community District # 2 in New York City, Elmore promotes the idea that school reform can not be imposed through artificial constructs developed by outside policymakers, but must begin from the inside with a commitment by educators to develop the knowledge, structures, and practices at the heart of instruction.

«By grappling with and reflecting on these real - world issues, learners construct their own knowledge and are more likely to put new ideas in practice in the future.»

Dec said he attended Stager's Maker conference called Constructing Modern Knowledge (CMK), held in Manchester, New Hampshire every summer since 2008.

The new writing standards have been constructed to increase the mutual benefits of writing and knowledge.

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 work.

Before we get there, it's essential to construct a foundation built from the necessary skills in Design Question 2 and 3 (Helping Students Interact with New Knowledge, Practicing and Deepening New Knowledge).

Bar graphs, line graphs, tally charts, pie graphs and many more are introduced and students even have an opportunity to apply their new knowledge by constructing their own.

The construct of TPACK itself is relatively new among the types of teacher knowledge needing assessment.

We know, for example, that the mind constructs knowledge — that people learn by connecting new information to existing understandings and conceptual frameworks.

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).

Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Preschool Mathematics: Construct Validity of a New Teacher Interview

We plan, for example, to construct new food animal and equine housing and research laboratory facilities to provide settings in which our faculty and students can pursue new knowledge about diseases and performance of these animals.

A long hallway separated the two primary elements of Lothar Baumgarten's recent show at Marian Goodman, suggesting the distance between the locales of the projects — one focused on the South American rain forest, the other on the Hudson River Valley north of New York City — as well as the contrast in approaches (soundless imagery for the former, imageless sound for the latter) to what turned out to be congruent conceptual goals, namely an investigation of how «knowledge» of a given place is constructed.

They consider it essential that all new knowledge and thinking on safety is taken into account in planning and constructing new plants as well as in operating and improving old plants.

The introduction of an auxiliary hypothesis should always be regarded as an attempt to construct a new system; and this new system should then always be judged on the issue of whether it would, if adopted, constitute a realadvance in our knowledge of the world.

This new multidimensional construct of change beliefs could be understood as a cognitive representation of relationship consistency and stability that supplement our knowledge about the representations of self and others as described in attachment studies (e.g., Pietromonaco & Barrett, 2000).

Since the Gardnerian PAS model is not defined through established psychological principles and constructs, and instead proposes a «new syndrome» within psychology, the PAS model does not allow us to establish defined domains of knowledge or professional practice to which ALL mental health professional can be held accountable.

Construct validity of the emotion matching task: Preliminary evidence for convergent and criterion validity of a new emotion knowledge measure for young children