Sentences with phrase «digital study tools»

[50] Mobileread describes Nook Study (sometimes styled «NookStudy» or «NOOK Study»)[51][52] as «a free e ‐ textbook application from Barnes and Noble that provides a suite of digital study tools.

Of the survey respondents, «67 percent of students said that digital study tools such as adaptive learning programs save them time — up to five or more hours a week — when studying.»

Content: StudyBlue touts itself as empowering «a generation of ambitious digital natives who expect and deserve high - quality digital study tools.»

[56] On the Today Show and in an MSNBC.com post, Wilson Rothman, Deputy Technology & Science Editor at MSNBC, had included NOOK Study in a list of 10 back - to - school tech survival tips to consider when shopping for college technology necessities, recommending: «NOOK Study is an essential back - to - school tool that students should consider when heading back to college — and may be the «coolest digital study tool around.»»

«Barnes & Noble may well have the coolest digital study tool around.

Not exact matches

But given the wide variety of good English translations, the vast availability of Greek and Hebrew study tools (both in book and digital format), and the large number of good commentaries that have been written, I expect that knowing Greek and Hebrew is not going to be super beneficial to me personally.

For instance, a screen - grab tool called SnapThought was provided through educational resource developer BrainPOP's digital game portal called GameUp (all teachers in the study accessed the games through this portal).

Learn how to get patients moving with this interactive digital learning tool that includes real - life case studies and expert insights from health and medical professionals.

These projects can teach kids about such subjects as social studies or literature using digital tools — maps and timelines, for instance — that will develop a relationship between narrative and history, time and place.

While at the site, they might study macroinvertebrates using two - way aquatic magnifiers and a digital - imaging tool nicknamed a «scope on a rope,» or they might test water quality — very important for the state's seafood economy — for problems such as fecal coliform bacteria.

To develop students» abilities to study and research effectively using digital tools.

Our committee created groups to work on stating a «Declaration of Learning» to blend informal and formal learning, pre-K through gray; advance a research agenda to study the outcomes of park - based experiences; develop digital tools for learners of all ages; and create new partnerships and funding sources with educational agencies, institutions, and foundations.

In another Pew study, while nearly three - quarters of high school teachers admit that digital research tools can have a positive impact on student performance, 87 % also say that digital tech has resulted in a generation of teenagers who are far more easily distracted than teens of the past.

An innovative teacher, Fran coordinates actual and digital global projects with partnering classrooms across the globe to co-create and produce authentic digital artifacts where students think and work creatively, then implement tech tools to demonstrate quality communication in studied target languages.

Is New Again Jerome Bergs Google Lit Trips project transports the study of books like Make Way for Ducklings, By the Great Horned Spoon, and The Grapes of Wrath, to new heights by combining it with such digital mapping tools as Google Earth.

Digital mapping tools like CommunityWalk provide a somewhat simpler format to work with, so even the novice language arts teacher can try his or her hand at digitalizing a favorite novel study.

Although teachers would still be able to make use of digital tools, new privacy laws could place onerous reporting and disclosure requirements on technology vendors regardless of their size, as well as restrictions on people's ability to study tools» effectiveness over time and vendors» own ability to evolve their products based on student performance data.

eFaqt is an online study tool that offers digital flashcards.

Studies suggest that 1:1 programs slightly improved students» writing and seemed to improve students» skills in using digital tools; there was some evidence that 1:1 programs very slightly improved students» scores on high - stakes tests.

A growing number of studies in the U.S. and abroad is helping to build a better case for using portable digital tools.

Melody (first author) developed the new literacies course to accomplish three main objectives: (a) to provide teachers with a scholarly foundation in literacy studies that recognizes how advances in technology influence literacy practices; (b) to support teachers in building their pedagogical knowledge of digital texts and tools as well as social practices influencing composing practices; and (c) to provide teachers with a setting for direct application of the theories and practices discussed in class as they worked with children in a writing camp.

Returning to the example of digital history from the social studies, there is important work to be done beyond just helping experienced teachers and preservice teachers gain awareness about the availability of digital primary sources or tools.

This study examines the use of a digital video annotation tool used by beginning in - service secondary science and mathematics teachers in the Teacher Induction Network (TIN).

This approach could foster more competent decisions regarding the implementation of digital tools in the social studies curriculum.

This study of more than 4,600 teachers sought to understand educators» needs when using digital tools to tailor and improve instruction for individual students.

Albers and Harste (2007) referenced a teacher education program that teaches preservice teachers how to create digital video in which they «learn about and create multimodal texts using IM, iMovie, blogs, wikis, and iPods to more fully explore the potential of media tools to communicate and to critically study how media can shape interpretation» (p. 19).

After a thorough review of available digital video capture and code programs, our project selected StudioCode ™ as the most comprehensive and customizable software tool for analysis and study of elementary classroom based inquiry science lessons.

This paper describes the experience of 18 preservice social studies teachers over the course of one semester, using Web 2.0 tools to design and implement a digital flexbook.

Latino children and their white peers have similar access to technology, a new study finds, but a digital divide persists: how parents use digital tools to advance children's early learning.

We have also integrated digital video into our teacher education courses as a tool for students to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of social studies content.

For further support with research, I've created two other tools that help educators evaluate research studies and curricular programs: Finding What Works in Learning: A Rubric for Analyzing Research Studies of Curricular Programs and Best Practices for Evaluating Digital Curstudies and curricular programs: Finding What Works in Learning: A Rubric for Analyzing Research Studies of Curricular Programs and Best Practices for Evaluating Digital CurStudies of Curricular Programs and Best Practices for Evaluating Digital Curricula.

We engage students with personalized learning, combining classroom study with the latest educational technology using an array of digital learning tools.

I did a study, several years back about some of the older children working with younger children, (pre-kindergarten), just very basic digital inking, starting with colors and talking to 3 and 4 - year - olds about their favorite colors, showing them how to use the tool.

Johns Hopkins University has constructed a powerful online resource called Evidence for ESSA that organizes digital math and reading tools that best align with ESSA standards and ranks these products based on the success of studies and research that has been done on the programs, allowing schools to find research - based tools that are best made to fit their student demographics.

Digital Comics: New Tools and Tropes can be found in Studies In Comics (Volume 4, Issue 1) while my hypercomic history From Comic To Hypercomic is in Cultural Excavation and Formal Expression in the Graphic Novel.

One of the key features of digital interactive learning tools such as SCOREboard is the ability to tailor study time to identified areas of deficiency and facets of lower confidence level.

EDRLab participates to these objectives by accompanying European publishing actors in their transition to natively accessible digital works, by studying if the Lab can become one of the certification centers for the accessibility of ebooks and by improving the accessibility of the Readium software tools.

Programs usually include print and digital study materials, as well as several key grooming tools like dog nail trimmers.

«Fifty Years Later epitomizes the impact of Bowdoin's newly launched Digital and Computational Studies Initiative, which works collaboratively to apply digital tools to the humanities» materials in order to facilitate their study and analysis from new and rich perspectives,» continued GieDigital and Computational Studies Initiative, which works collaboratively to apply digital tools to the humanities» materials in order to facilitate their study and analysis from new and rich perspectives,» continued Giedigital tools to the humanities» materials in order to facilitate their study and analysis from new and rich perspectives,» continued Gieseking.

Linking new studies of the digital self to the critical concerns and creative tools of artists, this diverse public programme explores questions of identity, authenticity, narcissism, disembodiment, and parody.

Use of tools to evaluate and conduct trade off studies of performance, thermal, data processing, analog sensors, digital process, networking, margins, and cost and schedule compatibility.

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Study Guide for Digital Decisions: Choosing the Right Technology Tools for Early Childhood Education PASSWORD: 121212 (Available at no cost until December 26, 2012.

Information Technology Making a Difference in Children's Lives: An Issue Brief for Leaders for Children KirkHart, Rothschuh, & Kattlove (2008) Encourages the incorporation of information and communications technology into public programs serving children by highlighting research and case studies showing how digital tools and applications can improve children's education, health, employment, and civic opportunities.

According to this study, even with all the digital tools we now have, no one is about to stop writing by hand any time soon.