Sentences with phrase «learn about the citizens»

This activity report analyzes the results from a conducted a public opinion survey in 2013, in five cities in Latin America to learn about citizens» perceptions about quality of life, urban infrastructure needs and public services.

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«When I think about how I understand my role as citizen, setting aside being president, and the most important set of understandings that I bring to that position of citizen, the most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned from novels,» he recently told The New York Review of Books.

«When I think about how I understand my role as citizen... the most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned from novels,» Obama told The New York Review of Books.

In uBiome's case it was citizen scientists — regular people who dig science and like to learn about themselves and apply that knowledge to their own health and other people with similar interests.

«City officials may not understand that they will get access to very little of what Google learns from their citizens... Meanwhile, Google will be gaining insights about urban life — including energy use, transit effectiveness, climate mitigation strategies, and social service delivery patterns — that it will then be able to resell to cities around the world.

Graham said he wants to learn more about the «unmasking» of US citizens like former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who may have been caught up, incidentally, in surveillance of monitored non-US persons believed to be foreign agents.

Fever Pitch is about the quotidian and what one man can learn about himself by participating in the national obsession; The Soccer Diaries starts with a child in search of something thoroughly other, a citizen cheating on his own country's sporting culture.

• Our students develop a lifelong love of learning and become world citizens who care about their local and global communities.

Educating and engaging the public to learn more about wildlife through citizen science is also a hallmark of conservation at Mass Audubon.

Students learn about water quality indicators, tolerant and intolerant species, and citizen science initiatives while identifying preserved macroinvertebrates.

It will engage scientists, naturalists, citizen scientists, and all visitors to learn about nature through active participation on this ambitious conservation project.

Learn about the seasonal birds that call our beaches home while contributing to one of our important citizen science programs.

And as this column was written, we learned from the president's financial disclosure that he lied about the payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, while President Trump's first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, told graduates at the Virginia Military Institute, «If our leaders seek to conceal the truth, or we as people become accepting of alternative realities that are no longer grounded in facts, then we as American citizens are on a pathway to relinquishing our freedom.»

Several lawmakers argued enacting the law on Oct. 1 would not give owners of bump stocks in Connecticut enough time to learn about the new law and would turn law abiding citizens into felons.

«I was shocked when I learnt about this event on social media, at a time when as a country we're cutting budgetary support to various institutions and as such we the citizens would want to see some seriousness in government business, the Akufo Addo administration is rather thinking of a celebration.

Elia says school officials and teachers should work with students to make it a learning experience about civic engagement and what it means to be an active citizen in American.

Citizens the world over were engaged by the astronomical achievement, and now the European Space Agency and NASA are eager to learn as much as possible about the critically important celestial body of ice.

Not only will citizen scientists add valuable information on the extent of ground shaking and damage, but in the process USGS hopes citizen scientists will learn more about how other communities fared and gain a greater understanding of the effects of earthquakes.

«It is simply startling that a state government in the United States would... deny its citizens the opportunity to learn about the history and prehistory of their own state,» says paleoclimatologist Glen MacDonald of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Just by taking photos and observing spiders, citizen scientists can help the Explorit Science Center in Davis, Calif., learn about which climates certain spiders live in and track the distribution of spiders over time.

When I was in North Carolina last month for the meet - and - greet - and - learn - exhausto - freneti - thon of ScienceOnline 2012, I procured for myself a sampling kit for a citizen science project being conducted by the lab of Rob Dunn, Sci Am Guest Blogger and author of the wonderful book The Wild Life of our Bodies.He's doing a new study called «The Wild Life of Our Homes», and for the low, low price of nothing *, I got a sampling kit with two neato dual - pronged sterile Q - tips, instructions, a questionnaire about the characteristics of my pad, and a mailing address to send it back to.

The OSSP was designed at the Lab to help local land stewards manage their properties with students who, as «citizen scientists,» learn about the scientific process while going out to the field to collect useful data.

Celebrate #CitSciDay2018 with us all this week and learn about a few other citizen science projects too.

Project Violet is a «citizen science» project, and we want to include students as citizens who can get involved as well by diving into the learning process about cancer, research, science and exploration.

We allow doctors, patients, and citizen scientists to learn about...

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Larry Yust's black comedy focuses on a group of senior citizens who learn they're about to be evicted from their apartment building.

Making friends with true believer Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Strange becomes obsessed with learning all he can about these mystical arts, never thinking for a moment that outside forces, led by the deranged and emotionally damaged Kaecilius (Mads Mikkelsen), are conspiring to destroy Kamar - Taj and bring unfathomable ruin to the citizens of the Earth.

Part of the film also shows the reaction of citizens when they learn about the exact date they die.

But as he slowly learns about the society's dark and deadly past, he decides to sacrifice everything to save his fellow citizens.

«The students learn a lot about what it means to be a good citizen and about the importance of discipline,» he says.

A rich curriculum that helps students learn a lot about a lot of things in all the disciplines — literature, history, science, math, and the arts — will help students become thoughtful and productive citizens who love to learn new things.

It uses factsheets, a multiple choice quiz and a variety of activity ideas to help pupils learn about different species of dolphins, their habitats, our responsibility as citizens and how dolphins and their environment might be protected.

Our students also participate in citizen science through such sites as Zooniverse, where they can assist in actual research while learning about supernovae, ocean ecosystems, or the lives of soldiers during WWI.

The truth about these crimes needs to be provided for the protection of victims of those crimes but also people and society (national and international) in general: the identity formation taking place in schools touches upon individual and collective (national) identities at the same time, the objectives of education under international human rights law demand putting a student, an individual, in the centre of the learning process to fully develop his personality and at the same time take into account the demands of democratic society in state and in the world — the world in which a person needs to manage and which needs good peaceful citizens.

Operating across eight locations, the award - winning Me & MyCity 6th Grade program includes teacher training and learning resources for 10 lessons, followed by a visit to a miniature city where students work in their chosen profession and learn more about being a consumer and citizen, including banking, voting... and spending their hard - earned salary!

You won't find much about union support, but you will learn more about how officials and average citizens are coming to see that teacher and school effectiveness can be measured and improved.

Objectives: to learn about the three main villas in Pompeii, to analyse the floor plans of villas, to discover some wealthy citizens who owned these villas, to learn about life in Pompeii, to learn about the different areas of an average villa.

Bringing outsiders into this space helps them learn about the role of a school in a community and makes it easier for them to understand the collective duty all citizens have to support their school system.

By day four of the Future of Learning (FoL) institute, Esther Carvalho, a principal of a two - unit school in Sao Paulo, Brazil, was thinking a lot about globalization, the importance of teaching students to be good citizens, and ethics in the media.

Today we live in an increasingly global world requiring educators not only to teach children about math and science, but also how to be citizens of the world, according to Peter Senge, Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) research member and MIT senior lecturer.

«Today you've heard researchers grapple with important developmental questions about what students - and importantly immigrant - origin students — will need to learn in order to be fully engaged, active, and critical citizens in the 21st century,» she said.

Woerner is convinced that WHEA's approach produces citizens who will be excited about learning throughout their lives, even if they missed a great work of literature or two during high school.

Learn Everything About Voting: Citizens, Not Spectators, a program from the Center for Civic Education, is designed to promote voting among young Americans.

From their findings, we learn that American citizens know quite a bit about the local schools.

In this documentary - style video, learn about the history of activism and civil disobedience in the U.S., take a look at the purpose of political protests, and learn more about what engaged citizens can accomplish.

Learn about their curriculum - implementation strategy that ensures students are prepared for academic achievement as well as lifelong, self - directed learning and engagement as both global and digital citizens.

Learn about the mission of The Global Citizens» Initiative in YouTube Interview with TGCI Executive Director.