Sentences with phrase «informal learning contexts»

Individuals» epistemological understanding — that is, their beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing is thought to have important implications for critical thinking in both formal and informal learning contexts (CCSSO, 2010; NGSS Lead States, 2013; Kuhn, 1999; Burr & Hofer, 2002).

Teams can be comprised of classroom teachers, instructional leaders, school leaders, administrators, and other educators in a variety of settings (e.g. museums, after - school programs, and other informal learning contexts, etc.).

D28 Criteria of Innovation and Quality This report presents eight criteria of innovation, which may be used to identify effective practice in science teaching and learning at the intersection between formal and informal learning contexts.

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The program supports advances in research on STEM learning and education by fostering efforts to explore all aspects of education research from foundational knowledge to improvements in STEM learning and learning contexts, both formal and informal, from childhood through adulthood, for all groups, and from the earliest developmental stages of life through participation in the workforce, resulting in increased public understanding of science and engineering.

While this informal learning may solve a tactical problem in the learner's context, the organization remains unaware, and is unable to track this learning and leverage the same learning in business.

«I hope to develop a research career that informs educators, nonprofit organizations, and governmental agencies in the design of formal and informal educational opportunities and interventions that are culturally relevant, sensitive to children's contexts, and encourage a strong foundation for all children's lifelong learning.»

Learners must be seen increasingly as customers and given a context - aware learning experience that is integrated and personalized for formal and informal learning.

How would you differentiate gamification in the context of formal and informal learning?

School cultures as contexts for informal teacher learning.

Despite influential theories and designs, research and practice continues to face significant questions around key crucial relationships between the scale of influence of informal or interest - driven technology activities to lifelong pursuits, and the complexities involved in scaffolding culturally - sustaining, equitable and accessible STEM learning in informal making and gaming contexts.

In the present study, I investigate: 1) How children develop the ability to consider the nature of knowledge within the context of conversation; 2) Whether improved epistemological understanding supports children's critical thinking in informal social learning; 3) Whether cognitive self - control and verbal IQ moderate or mediate epistemological development; and 4) Whether individual differences in epistemological understanding relate to parent characteristics.

Additionally, these views arise in a context where strong majorities of adults consider themselves «lifelong learners» and libraries around the country are working to fit their programs and services into local educational ecosystems — both the formal parts of it (such as schools) and the informal parts of it (such as «do it yourself» learning opportunities).