Sentences with phrase «notions about»

Most will simply write it off as yet another failure from BlackBerry, a company still clinging to QWERTY keyboards and «weird» notions about «security»...

Perhaps that's because, as a photographer, I encounter so many golden numberists (i.e., people who believe fantastical notions about the golden ratio)-- and some have specifically mentioned that they were influenced by this book.

For Matthew J. Smith, a Springfield resident and professor of communication at Wittenberg who teaches a popular study of comics called Graphic Storytelling, «The Graphic Canon» is more proof to win over people with preconceived notions about comics.

She also has a lot of preconceived notions about things, and that was fun for me to work with.

As literately and, in two exquisitely suspenseful accounts of emergency surgery, even more dramatically, he now tells the stories of our past and present knowledge of and notions about the stomach, the liver, the spleen, the heart, and the uterus.

He says that he had no preconceived notions about whether it would be successful, but they reached their goal and overshot by enough to get Defendini to create a map in addition to the cover.

Imagine also that you are an open - minded individual with no preconceived notions about any of the parties in this dispute.

At first glance, you might think Julsbug2k is just some anonymous commenter with a soft - hearted view of the company and ludicrous notions about what «self - publishing» means.

With the 2013 Volvo S60, you can cast aside any preconceived notions about Volvos being bland, boxy or boring.

Frankly, I think everyone who knew of the mid-2000's Viper's seemingly untamable desire to murder its owners or anyone who's taken a ride in a 500 + horsepower muscle car had preconceived notions about what the Hellcats would and wouldn't be capable of on road and track.

We turn down most «Driving Day» invites from car makers as all they are is a half hour blat in a range of cars which tends to do nothing more than reinforce pre-conceived notions about whatever you're driving.

Juechter insists he had no preconceived notions about which technology would give the Z06's V - 8 the amount of power the engineering team was hoping to achieve.

While it's fair to say that the Obama administration's emphasis on the importance of high - quality teachers has brought increased visibility to notions about professional development, it first became an issue when the Madison School District learned in the last decade that its proud reputation for academic achievement doesn't hold up when it comes to minority students.

Still, I find very few folks have anything more than the vaguest notions about the Common Core.

She had preconceived notions about public schools, and they weren't positive.

He said, «Choice represents a return to some of our most basic notions about education.

These notions about creativity, espoused by great artists and scientists, are also supported by neuroscientists.

«As we hoped when this recognition was established, many previous honorees are indeed moving into leadership positions and are redefining traditional notions about learning as a result of their experiences with technology,» said Ann Flynn, NSBA's Director of Education Innovation.

Equally important, the U.S. and other countries need such changes in their systems of education to make opportunities more widely available to all, and change notions about who «does» STEM.

Teachers have notions about how students learn, whether they take a traditional approach to learning or a more constructivist approach.

A standardized test — be it a state Regents exam, the SHSAT, the SAT, the ACT, or an A.P. test — doesn't have preconceived notions about a child.

Nowadays we've developed some odd notions about our role as educators.

In Part 3 of this series, I'll suggest that we need to give up some preconceived notions about roles and responsibilities in school leadership, professional development, and evaluation.

In Part 3, I propose that we need to give up some preconceived notions about roles and responsibilities in school leadership, professional development, and evaluation.

«As we hoped when this recognition was established, many previous honorees are indeed moving into leadership positions and are redefining traditional notions about learning as a result of their experiences with technology,» said Ann Flynn, NSBA's Director of Education Technology.

Of course, liberal notions about the potential of education to serve the ends of justice are nothing new to American social thought.

The use of holistic learning approaches can be very effective as students will not have any pre-conceived notions about what learning should be like.

I had only vague notions about how to be a great teacher.

The solutions are often surprising to parents who have preconceived notions about one school type or another.

Spillane's (1996) study revealed that state and local policies do not always support similar notions about instruction.

This isn't simply about holding on to romantic notions about the buildings.

Educators need to take notice of new learning and communications paradigms being adopted by today's learners, how they are modifying traditional notions about literacy, and whether they are directly affecting how basic reading and writing skills are acquired (Leu, 2000).

That concern began to ebb, however, as theoretical notions about school choice and market - based competition were replaced by information about real schools in real places.

Further, McLuhan's (1965) and Ong's (1984) ideas about media and the message can help to reformulate notions about why and how today's students communicate and how using particular media affects how they learn things.

But it lays to rest some other popular notions about American education.

Since becoming chancellor, Farina has made no secret of her loyalty to her mentor's notions about reading; she reportedly deployed them to good effect as the principal of P.S. 6, in the heart of Manhattan's affluent Upper East Side.

As one put it, school reformers who hoped to receive NASDC grants had to «cast aside their old notions about schooling — to start with a clean sheet of paper, and be bold and creative in their thinking, and to give us ideas that address comprehensive, systemic change for all students for whole schools.»

Most Americans possess only general, and not quite accurate, notions about their public schools.

Two notions about teacher evaluation have the ring of truth: It's important for principals to get into classrooms and observe, and teachers should be evaluated on how much their students learn.

Virtual schools have arrived — and with them, a host of challenges to our notions about school and schooling.

Before I took this job, I had pretty vague notions about federal employees — if I thought about them at all.

More than twenty years ago, while working on a report for the Carnegie Foundation about teen pregnancy, I stumbled on a series of reports by a Washington Post reporter named Leon Dash that upset the apple cart about the then - popular notions about «the teen pregnancy crisis.»

Previously, Duncan's stature relegated him to stereotypical tough black guy roles, but his performance here shatters any preconceived notions about his acting abilities, and will hopefully pave the way for meaty roles for this good actor.

Transposing the milieu from glitz to grits, Steven Soderbergh's LOGAN LUCKY does more set an intricate heist flick in the backroads of Appalachia, it also makes a sly statement about class, culture, and our preconceived notions about those two things.

From her first moment on the public stage, she has challenged traditional American notions about what it means to be beautiful, to be strong, to be fashion conscious, to be healthy, to be First Mom, to be a caretaker and hostess, and to be partner to the most powerful man in the world.

The story is wildly disjointed, cramming together thematic notions about parenting, family, male maturity and Jewish identity — any of which would have made for a better movie if more deeply explored.

The revelation also rattles any preconceived notions about the film wandering down a familiar path, adding a measure of mystery to the story as Kyle and Jen investigate the origins of the pictures.

«One of the best movies ever made about making movies, DE PALMA s not a film for those who wish to retain romantic notions about an artist's process.»

Addressing preconceived notions about others — in this case how monsters feel about humans — the film recognizes some parental worries seems justified, at least to the parent.

Tom Cruise is one of the best actors of the modern era, but unfortunately people have preconceived notions about him because his zany antics or his religious beliefs.