Sentences with phrase «lack of technology resources»

In addition, even if mentor - teachers do have expertise in technology integration and time to mentor preservice teachers, they may not have the opportunity to model diverse teaching strategies in the limited amount of time a preservice teacher is present in their classroom, or they may lack of technology resources at a given placement school.

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Verizon Communications, among the biggest beneficiaries of the corporate tax cut this year, said it would double its commitment to fostering science, technology, and engineering education (STEM) in schools that lack such resources.

However, with technology - based education initiatives likely to see a reduction in federal and state funding in the coming years, the public sector will likely not have the resources to step in and help bridge the gap between a lack of skilled workers and unfilled jobs.

Another woman steeped in the issue is Megan Smith, the first female US Chief Technology Officer (CTO), who says, «So many Americans have the grit and creativity of a world - class entrepreneur, but they lack the resources — mentorship, networking, funding, training — to bring their ideas to fruition.»

Indonesia, like other emerging markets, has historically struggled to keep accurate records due to a lack of expertise and resources, but the public and private sectors are now looking at blockchain technology to overcome some of these challenges.

The lack of resources and technology available at the time required the proponents of these metrics to do many hours of manual work to provide the metrics for the client and its comp group.

«In some areas of science, women report a feeling of isolation and a lack of female role models,» says Rachel Tobbell, mentoring strategy manager at the U.K. Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology (UKRC).

As an organisation CAT believes that the technology and resources for a sustainable future exist, and that it is only the lack of political will and distribution of these resources that prevents achieving it.

Some teachers, experts say, still are reluctant to use technology, mostly because of a lack of time, a lack of resources, or a lack of confidence in their ability to use the available technology.

«We are plenty in technological resources to enhance our education, yet the lack of equity and amount of resources that kids have in America is amazing,» he said, citing the vast difference between technology use in poor and affluent schools.

Again and again, Dalmas and Beck steer the conversation about classroom technology back to two broader topics: lack of resources and problems in the community they serve.

Study: Broader Data Use Could Improve Parent Involvement Education Week, May 30, 2013» «Unfortunately, because of a general lack of expertise in using data to guide strategy, sensitivity to releasing performance data publicly, and the political unpopularity of using scarce resources on analysis and [information technology] systems, relatively few large agencies have fully tapped the power of the data they have to better manage the performance of their schools,» says Jon Fullerton, the executive director of Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.»

Check out the October Resource of the Month, Code.org, a public nonprofit that aims to increase engagement in computer science education to bridge the gap between growing technology jobs and a lack of students to enter the workforce industry.

«The persistent lack of access to world - class educational resources and technology in far too many communities is at the heart of this issue,» Duncan wrote on the Brown Center Chalkboard, a blog of the Brookings Institution.

To address preservice teachers» lack of experience with student thinking the Algebraic Thinking Project synthesized 859 articles of research into multiple technology - based resources: (a) Encyclopedia of Algebraic Thinking, (b) Student Thinking Video Database, (c) Formative Assessment Database and Class Response System, and (d) Virtual Manipulatives.

Over half of teachers in high - poverty schools, «agreed that the «lack of resources or access to digital technologies among students» is a challenge in their classrooms» and that its «results are strongest when the uses of technology... are combined with strategic teacher support...» (Darling - Hammond et al. 2014).

However, the vast majority of preservice teachers still used technology for instruction despite the lack of adequate resources.

To address preservice teachers» lack of experience with student thinking and the resulting limits in their ability to anticipate the ways their students» interpret and interact with mathematics, the ATP staff read 859 articles and synthesized the research into multiple technology - based resources.

A number of factors affect the quality of in - school modeling, including lack of resources available in field placements, lack of experience or expertise with regard to technology integration among field placement teachers, and lack of opportunities for preservice teachers to integrate technology in meaningful ways into the activities they design and implement during their field placements (Niess, 2008; Posner, 1996; Smoot, 2000).

More than half of teachers in low - income communities said that their students» lack of access to online resources at home presented a major challenge to integrating technology into their teaching.

Unfortunately, because of a lack of hardware and sometimes teacher confidence and creativity, students are denied access to the very strongest engagement resource we have — technology.

[BALI] The UN has announced approval for an adaptation fund to bolster the defences of poor countries that lack the money, technology and human resources to cope with climate change.

«We have very limited capacity in terms of human resources and institutions and very limited finance and an almost lack of technology for adaptation and mitigation,» he says.

While lacking in natural resources, it has developed into a technology hub, with a high density of research institutions and high employment in high - tech and future technologies including green jobs and climate policies.

The commission presented three main findings: «(A) despite sustained efforts to expand the public's access to legal services, significant unmet needs persist; (B) advancements in technology and other innovations continue to change how legal services can be accessed and delivered; and (C) public trust and confidence in obtaining justice and in accessing legal services is compromised by bias, discrimination, complexity, and lack of resources.»

The legal profession isn't the only sector feeling the effects of struggling global and local economies, a chronic lack of resources and the relentless demands of ever - changing technology; all parts of our society are having to change the way they live and work.

The following shows the percentage of respondents who deemed concerns «not important» — that the lack of necessary technology is not a concern for many is somewhat surprising, considering aforementioned concerns over technological resources, and that legal departments more generally are highlighted as being slow to adapt to new technological advances.

Taking the last first, I find that in - house lawyers are keen on the idea of using much more technology and of moving towards commoditization, but they lack the resources and the time to do so.

The reason why it may seem complicated depends on the knowledge or more precisely on the lack of knowledge of a single individual about all aspects of technology and his need to find help and good knowledge resources.

Even with his less extensive resources and «lack of investment in big firm accoutrements like «librarians, researchers, support staff, information technology and litigation services,» Gura beat a lawyer who typically commands $ 1 million for a Supreme Court case.

There is a huge amount going on in the Access to Justice world, which lacks the resources to meet the needs of its service population without effective use of technology.

Though some concerns may be expressed about favouring a proprietary technology, given the lack of resources in many countries, using Adobe Acrobat to create an e-app does not cost more than buying the basic program simply to create documents in PDF.

As adoption of technology increases across Main Street America, patent trolls will increasingly target those businesses which lack technical expertise and resources to battle them in court.

Bilingual schools operate in some of the most remote regions of Australia and therefore they lack the quality education resources such as information technology which is routinely available to urban schools.