Sentences with phrase «learning tasks while»

Contextual factors also play a part: When people learn a task while drunk, they adapt to performing that task while under the influence.

By examining the hippocampus — a portion of the brain associated with the process of learning — after the rats learned to associate a sound with a motor response, scientists found that the new brain cells injected with dye a few weeks earlier were still alive in those that had learned the task while the cells in those who had failed did not survive.

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To reach the level where you can converse about routine tasks for a relatively easy language like Spanish can take about 500 hours, while learning Chinese would require closer to 1,000 hours.

Learn to put that device down once in a while and focus your energy on tasks meant to achieve your goals.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, a middle manager, or someone focused on self - improvement, podcasts allow you to learn something new while you work out, commute to work, or finish everyday tasks.

For the study, one group was taught in the traditional way — a lesson about a single math concept — while a second class learned through interleaving, jumping around among different math skills to complete a task.

Instructors can see what the trainee sees on a separate computer screen, and help guide them while they do tasks like learn how to maneuver around people inside a virtual environment.

All this reflection helps focus on what you are already doing that is working and highlights the fact you really are making progress through the tasks you have on your list, while learning and growing along the way.

Outsourcing admin tasks could be worth your while, as we learn from the Society of Virtual Assistants.

The task that lies ahead is the development of a postmodern, post-Freudian, neoclassical approach to Christian pastoral care that takes seriously the resources of modernity while also penetrating its allusions and, having found the best of modern psychotherapy still problematic, has turned again to the classical tradition for its bearings, yet without disowning what it has learned from modern clinical experience.

D. W. Robertson, J., NY: Liberal Arts, 1958) In the struggle between Christianity and paganism Augustine embarked on a twofold task when writing this book: (1) to define Christian doctrine in such as way as to preserve an exclusive gospel while sifting out pagan accretions; and, (2) to effect a rapprochement between revealed truth and those aspects of pagan learning not inherently antagonistic to that truth.

Entrusted with the essential task of accompanying their students on a several - year journey, Waldorf grades 1 - 8 teachers have a role analogous to that of effective parent, guiding the children's formal academic learning while awakening their moral development and increasing their awareness of their place in the world.

«A parent's responsibility to create a safe home environment where their children can learn and grow is a daunting task, and we are happy to relieve parents of this duty while providing the additional peace of mind that our expertise offers.»

«A parent's responsibility to create a safe, home environment where their children can learn and grow is a daunting task, and we are happy to relieve London parents of this duty while providing the additional peace of mind that our expertise offers.»

Learning how to manage your anger and not react while having loud, ugly words directed at you is no easy task.

Some daycare facilities take great pride in their formalized academic preschool curriculum, while others adopt the adage that all skills learned by toddlers and youngsters is a form of learning, and that a child's most important tasks each day are learning to get along and to grow through play.

As that process unfolds, the task force recommended that the state declare a ban on using state growth scores to evaluate students or teachers until the 2019 - 20 school year while it reviews and alters the Common Core Learning Standards, develops curriculum aligned to the updated standards and tries out new assessments.

Study participants received a low current of electricity while performing a memory task such as learning lists of words, names of objects (for example, «chair» or «cat») or recognizing particular faces.

«Many of them face the difficult task of learning a new language while acquiring essential skills to be ready for kindergarten.»

«We found that lemurs who were frequently observed by others while solving the task to retrieve the food received more affiliative behaviors than they did before they learned,» said Kulahci, who is a postdoctoral researcher at University College Cork in Ireland.

But while machine learning theorists have made progress in teaching computers to perform specific tasks within a strict set of parameters — such as how to parallel park a car or plumb encyclopedias for answers to trivia questions — their programs don't enable computers to generalize in an open - ended way.

Some research efforts to enhance learning zero in on methods to strengthen memory and recall, while others bolster students» abilities to stay on task, think more fluidly and mentally track and juggle information.

Naïve bees were then able to learn the task by observing a trained demonstrator bee while this skill was passed down through several generations of learners, ensuring its longevity in the population.

While having their brains scanned, 16 high - functioning adults with ASD and 16 typical adults were trained to perform an implicit dot pattern - learning task.

While the control mice picked up on the new rules in 4 to 5 days, the impaired mice took at least twice as long to learn the task.

After equalizing the task structure learning and using the fMRI scanner, the two groups» brain activation differed while they were learning a new dot pattern.

«Individuals with MS and healthy participants will undergo a brain scan while performing a learning task with two feedback conditions (monetary and non-monetary feedback) and a no - feedback condition,» Dr. Dobryakova described.

While performing a word - learning task participants will receive feedback on whether or not they correctly learned the words, or receive no feedback.

«From the scientific perspective, [a] BCI provides an opportunity to challenge the brain with a completely novel task while observing how the brain adapts, and what (if any) existing learning scaffolds it harnesses to address the challenge,» Wander said.

However learning even simple tasks such as growing and crossing wheat plants requires time and effort, while material and methods sections in published articles are often short and can not substitute teaching aids.

As a new mom I really enjoy listening and learning new things through you podcast while I feed my baby or do any household tasks.

If you can learn to sprint and hurdle with near - perfect mechanics without the two tasks interfering with each other, then you can similarly learn the different skills of sprinting, as well as sprinting while towing a heavy sled.

Set between the first and second films, Sgt Davis Tubbs (Brandon Smith) assembles a task force to destroy the Creeper once and for all while growing closer than ever before to learning the secrets of its dark origins, as the monster terrorizes a local farming community.

While each one will retain their weight class's particular strengths and weaknesses (Light is fast and touchy, Medium is balanced, Heavy is sluggish but durable) you now have the added task of learning to drive without wheels.

Money As You Learn, developed by the U.S. President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability, provides teachers with texts, lessons and tasks that connect the Common Core to real - life applications while also equipping students with the knowledge needed to make smart financial decisions.

How do we teach students to integrate technology into their schoolwork and their learning while also making sure that they're staying focused on the task at hand?

For example, a teacher may assign students the task of designing or constructing a bridge while learning about the history of famous bridges, bridges in poetry and literature, as well as mathematical principles and engineering processes involved in building bridges.

While learning outdoor survival skills with a wildlife biologist at Raven's Way Nature Sanctuary, my students were given the task of building a shelter that could withstand Arizona's challenges: the flooding, the heat, and the creatures.

One might discover that they've been performing a task incorrectly, while another learns from their mistake and bridges a skill gap.

«While the tasks themselves will no longer contribute to students» grades, we strongly believe that learning about a high - level programming language and having the opportunity to show how it can be used to solve problems is hugely important.

To me this is all about instructional design; that we teachers are demanding rigorous and complex tasks for the work we ask our students to do with the text, while creating tasks that are appropriate for their learning objectives.

«While they want to support student learning, many teachers feel that accountability or proving themselves to the Department has become their primary task,» she said.

So, it is an important task on hand for the Learning and Development department that faces legion challenges while imparting the same.

After working on more than 100 learning hours of migration, we came up with the following list of tips to perform this task efficiently while reducing the costs involved.

This research also explored the association between students» confidence and the challenge they experience while undertaking learning tasks.

Fortunately, there's a way we can offer students more appropriately differentiated learning tasks for homework while not crushing ourselves with work.

«So, again pulling out the research about what are the goals for mathematics, what is global research about the effective teaching and learning of mathematics... while at the same time encouraging or expecting our teachers to provide our students with high challenge tasks and gradually build more and more of them into their repertoire...»

Importantly, project - based learning often involves authentic tasks that solve real - world problems while problem - based learning uses scenarios and cases that are perhaps less related to real life (Larmer, 2014).

PISA advises that exposure to complex mathematic concepts and procedures has a positive impact on performance and while disadvantaged pupils spend about the same amount of time in maths classes, they are less exposed to pure mathematics tasks and concepts that tend to be associated with better learning outcomes.

Students who were praised for effort --» You're trying hard» — were more likely to choose challenging tasks that could help them learn, while students who were praised for ability --» You're really smart» — were more likely to choose tasks in their comfort zone that they could easily complete.