Sentences with phrase «learning science tells»

Learning technology must be a major part of the design equation in order to support what learning science tells us.

Not exact matches

Science shows you'd learn a lot more quickly if you ignored that hectoring voice in your head telling you to constantly keep your nose to the grindstone.

When political science students were challenged about being Republicans, they were not thereby disenfranchised from voting; when economics students were challenged on the merits of capitalism, they were not thereby excluded from purchasing notebooks, But when students were told that everything they had learned about their religion before entering this class was wrong, did we know — or care — if their capacity to function religiously in a mature fashion was diminished?

In fact, the entire history of science could be told as the story of attempts to devise methods by which mistakes can be «good» ones; that is, mistakes which are reversible and from which we can learn something.

If children learn that they can dismiss evidence because the church tells them to, how will this contribute to science?

No, I learned them in science class and we got that knowledge by observation and questioning, not blind acceptance of what we were told by «authorities.»

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The Young Atheist's Handbook was written by science teacher Alom Shaha and tells the story of his upbringing in a Bangladeshi Muslim community in South East London, how he overcame his inner conflict surrounding his atheism, and the lessons he learnt in leading a good life, full of awe and wonder, based on humanist principles.

«The people who have learned English and don't have it as a native tongue» nonetheless have access to everything in the scientific literature that native speakers do, Montgomery tells Science Careers in an interview — and in addition, they have access to the materials written in the other languages that they speak.

«Learning about the anatomy of the mantle tells us more about how the deep interior of Earth works and what mechanisms are behind mantle convection,» said Nicholas Schmerr, an assistant professor of geology at UMD and co-author of the Science Advances paper that addresses mantle density and composition.

Some fields are more competitive than others, but «the abilities to survive in science can be learned,» Echenique, who is the president of the Donostia International Physics Center and a past recipient of the Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research, told his audience.

At a recent event at Columbia University, hosted by the organization Women in Science at Columbia, I told my story and passed along lessons I've learned about how people — especially women — can make the most of their lives and careers.

So she decided to learn the truth about what science really does tell us about differences between the sexes.

The physics Nobelist who recently stepped down as point person for the Obama Administration's efforts to improve U.S. science education told Congress yesterday that many federally funded programs don't draw upon current research about how people learn and, therefore, haven't managed to boost student achievement.

Wieman told the committee that «powerful, vested interests» on college campuses discourage the adoption of new ways to teach science and train future science teachers, saying that most universities place a higher priority on research productivity than on student learning.

You won't learn about this stuff in the job search guides you find at the bookstore; those will just tell you to prepare a short resume, which is bad advice for someone with a graduate degree in science.

When I first started doing research for a story on people who chose to have children early in their science careers, my plan was to take everything I learned from the stories people told, extract the lessons, and combine them with a few quotes into a coherent article.

As you've just learned, while science hasn't yet been able to tell us the exact number of minutes of exercise that it takes to shove your adrenal glands «over the edge», we know that more than 90 minutes per day isn't doing us any extra favors from a health standpoint, and it's likely that the exact amount varies from person to person based on vitamin, nutrient and mineral status, training history, genetics, exposure to lifestyle, thermal, chemical and emotional stress, and even attitude.

We have even more stories to tell, lessons to learn, and science to discover as we make our way through the new year.

Sewing was not easy for me, I really struggled to learn until someone told me «It's sewing, not rocket science!».

Two leading educators have told Education Matters that the key to engaging high school students with STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) is through teachers, and have called for a greater focus on professional learning.

New approaches, he says, could focus on social and emotional development as well, since science now tells us that relationships and interactions with the environment sculpt the areas of the brain that control behavior (like the ability to concentrate), which also can affect academic achievement (like learning to read).

Update: Learn more about using storytelling in the «The Science of Storytelling: Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains» Life Hacker article.

The move to blended learning matters because learning science has long told us that students learn at different paces, have different working memory capacities, and possess different background knowledge when they enter a learning experience.

While a class focused on methods of learning and conducting research may not sound as exciting as one exploring an education issue, students enrolled in Professor Robert Selman's Research Experience in Prevention Science and Practice will tell you otherwise.

Then I told them about Computer Science Education Week and Code.org's vision to give «every student in every school the opportunity to learn computer science.Science Education Week and Code.org's vision to give «every student in every school the opportunity to learn computer science.science.»

If you're a teacher and you're suddenly told you have to teach this thing called Computer Science (which you may not even know what it is really), then being able to work with familiar resources is a really easy way to get into it, rather than being told «by the way first of all install this, buy this robot kit and get funding for this and learn how to do that... it's not compatible... sort that out» and so on.

He has authored and co-authored the following: Learning Transformed: 8 Keys for Designing Tomorrow's Schools, Today, BrandED: Tell Your Story, Build Relationships, and Empower Learning, Uncommon Learning: Creating Schools That Work for Kids, Digital Leadership: Changing Paradigms for Changing Times, Communicating and Connecting With Social Media: Essentials for Principals and What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Science.

What does the science of learning and development tell us about what students need to be successful learners?

Brain science tells us the most significant learning begins at birth, not at kindergarten; our federal, state, and local education policies must reflect that reality.

«We told our teachers, «Here are the new Illinois Learning Standards, and we're going to support you with a number of learning resources, including Science Techbook and Social Studies Techbook,» Learning Standards, and we're going to support you with a number of learning resources, including Science Techbook and Social Studies Techbook,» learning resources, including Science Techbook and Social Studies Techbook,» he said.

When Laumatia told parents she was going to create a school where learning would be individualized and fun, where kids would learn about Hawaiian culture and teachers would use art and music to teach core subjects like science and math, a lot of parents immediately said, «Where do I sign up?»

You mean to tell me that someone potential just running for BOE knows the science behind teaching ELL students, or how to teach reading to a room full of little kids, or how to implement the common core, or analyze data effectively to support student learning, or knows how to hire the right principal or sup.

Research quoted by the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College tells us that «(CRS) based instruction makes students active participants in the learning process» and that a CRS «creates a more dynamic, interactive classroom experience which can be enjoyable and fun for both the instructor and students.»

We could see that the standards conflicted with the research in cognitive science, neuroscience and child development that tell us what and how young children learn and how best to teach them.

He also seems to believe that standardized tests are the only way we will «know if they're learning what they need to succeed in college, in career, and in life» — which makes sense if you remember that he never taught, so he must not be aware of portfolios, formative assessments, playing checks, demonstrations, essays, poems, term papers, quizzes, drawings, dances, improvisations, compositions, science experiments, interviews, observations, and hundreds of other assessment tools that tell us what students know and can do in rich, meaningful ways.

I tell you exactly why and how science - based training works and I demonstrate with your dog and then I pass you the leash, After all, you live with your dog 24/7 so it seems only natural that you have a thorough understanding of how dogs learn.

If you are worried that you are not up to the task, let me tell you this — learning how to groom a dog is not rocket science, anyone willing to invest a bit of time, patience and go through a proper dog grooming training will be able to do it.

«We're trying to build a bridge between computer science analysis and conservation assessment,» Phillips tells us, adding that the collaboration required a learning curve on both ends.

Students, faculty and alumni of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art eager to learn the fate of the college's distinctive no - tuition policy have been told to wait, again.

This has been discussed so many times that either Victor does not have the intellectual capacity to understand the physics, or he is unwilling to make the effort to learn what the science actually tells us.

And I learned that our inability to tell the story of science — of its goodness, its vision, its relentless truth - seeking — is eroding the public's trust.»

So I suggest you go away and learn what climate science tells us before posting again.

And come to conclude that we really ought to listen to, and learn from, all the things that professionals of the natural sciences are telling the world about the negative atmospheric effects of our insistence on burning fossil fuels.

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One of the cool things about science that I learned is that sometimes it is the outlier in your data that ends up telling you the most.

Of course, this is being lead by his favorite bag of munchies, Roger Pielke Jr. who insists, insists Eli tells you, that right now there is nothing we can do (well until paragraph 23) and blames the reporter for listening to him, gets the science all wrong on a paper in Nature to conclude that it's gonna get cold man, blames learning his science from newspapers, and generally has been trying to discredit anyone who thinks that climate change may be a major problem.

I also learned a bit more about physics than I began with, which original teaching itself gave me something to compare with what I was being told in «AGW science».

You seem to push this a lot, but as I say, the empirical evidence points in the other direction — a strange state of affairs, given your propensity to tell people to learn more science and your willingness to say words to the effect of «the facts speak for themselves».

Converging lines of evidence from neuroscience, molecular biology, genetics, and the social sciences tell us that early experiences are literally built into our brains and bodies to affect a lifetime of learning and health, for good or for ill.