EducationWeek's newly released special report, «Blended Learning: Breaking Down Barriers» explores how K - 12 schools are grappling with blended learning — from districts providing wifi for students» homes to a review
of meaningful research about technology's impact on learning.
Not exact matches
This type
of technology, microfluidics, has the potential to transform biomedical
research by allowing people to glean
meaningful data from minuscule amounts
of liquid — in this case, blood.
Decades
of research comes to a fairly straightforward conclusion - focus on
meaningful relationships and being
of service instead.
«We believe that the commentary
of the wireless operators over the past two days about iPhone pre-order activity is
meaningful, especially in light
of conservative Street expectations for Apple,» BTIG
Research analyst Walt Piecyk wrote on Thursday.
«People find a lot
of joy in rediscovering a music playlist from months ago or an old joke with a neighbor, even though those things did not seem particularly
meaningful in the moment,» Columbia's Ting Zhang said
of her
research on the subject (done while she was at Harvard).
Prior
research has shown that the use
of social media may detract from face - to - face relationships, reduce investment in
meaningful activities, increase sedentary behavior by encouraging more screen time, lead to internet addiction, and erode self - esteem through unfavorable social comparison.
The third line
of research has to do with discovering and remembering
meaningful moments.
But when you get to call them stocks and you get stock quotes daily on these pieces
of paper that bounce around put people put numbers on it and volatility and all these other things where really it's not that
meaningful, you know from one sense if you're investing in businesses and you did a lot
of research and invested in eight different businesses with the proceeds
of your sale, people would think you're a pretty prudent guy.
Strong communication skills are a key requirement
of the equity
research position, as the researcher needs to be able to translate difficult - to - understand financial coefficients to the portfolio manager and others to clarify why certain financial data is
meaningful to the investment process.
Our
research has shown that 50 per cent
of the people questioned thought the sermon was the most
meaningful part
of the service.
Being a Crawford Fund Scholar provided a wonderful opportunity to meet and hear from a diverse group
of people passionate about agriculture and food security, reminded me
of the importance
of collaborative
research projects and reinforced my desire to make a
meaningful contribution to agriculture's future.
Our
research shows that sports investors should seek a
meaningful line move (to avoid «noise»)-- but not too large
of a move (or else the edge might be gone).
Drawing on their extensive experience and
research, the authors emphasize the importance
of children having significant time with both parents, allowing them to maintain
meaningful relationships.
* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director
of Early Education & Support Division, California Department
of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board
of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent
of Public Instruction, California Department
of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal
Research Scientist, American Institutes for
Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair
of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor
of Public Policy, University
of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman
of Subcommittee No. 2
of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power
of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through
Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize
of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor
of Child Welfare, University
of Southern California School
of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director
of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change
Therefor, if crying can be regarded as a
meaningful «target behaviour» for intervention with depressed mothers,
research needs to address how to identify it (cry), what aspect
of its character is
meaningful (to the mother and clinician), who should be the target
of the intervention (mother and / or infant) and whether the crying infant or the mother's processing
of the signal matters (i.e., mother vs. infant).
In this 10 - day eCourse, learn what
research really says about kids and technology, how to set appropriate boundaries, and give you tons
of ideas and tips to utilize technology in
meaningful and engaging, educational ways with your child!
The
research network will produce
meaningful impacts that will significantly extend the evidence - base
of home visiting.
However, there is an emergent consensus within the divorce
research community that in the great majority
of contested cases
of child custody, where family violence is not a factor, children's needs and interests are best served by preserving
meaningful relationships with both
of their parents.
Ron Campbell, Chief Policy and
Research Analyst for National Energy Action said: «The original UK Fuel Poverty Strategy was described as «representing the start
of the road to the end
of fuel poverty in the United Kingdom», there is a consensus that in order to make
meaningful progress in the right direction we are in urgent need
of a «road map».
Such
research would also define the smallest scale
of intervention experiments that would yield
meaningful scientific understanding.»
This shift can not only shape what
research happens, but how
research happens, making our science more relevant to policy outcomes and more
meaningful to communities... Community engagement is not only outreach — it has the power to transform and improve our science,» said Kirsten Schwarz, associate professor
of biological sciences and director
of the Ecological Stewardship Institute at Northern Kentucky University.
At a meeting in San Francisco in 1991, exhausted after spending six months at sea on a
research expedition, Delaney remembers sitting in a bar lamenting to a colleague about the difficulties
of using human - occupied submersibles to study the ocean in a
meaningful way.
Real energy, creativity, and labor must be directed — by scientists, institutions, and funding organizations — toward the integration
of meaningful, well - conceived training into the
research activities
of every science trainee, at every level... including, notably, the nation's postdocs.
«An outline
of plans for teaching and
research needs to be specific to be
meaningful,» says Stansbury.
As a practicing engineer, I have to say that all those involved in
meaningful research relating to developing safer driving technology should be very proud
of the results that are being obtained.
«Wildfires are a
meaningful topic to
research in and
of themselves, but they also help solve this causality problem that is difficult in our studies
of pollution,» McCoy said.
«You simply can not publish
meaningful research in proteomics without collaborating,» said Stagljar, who is also a Professor in the Departments
of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics.
These statistically significant and clinically
meaningful improvements in overall response and survival rates resulted from a phase Ib / II clinical study performed at the HonorHealth
Research Institute, a partnership
of HonorHealth and TGen.
«We've deciphered the mouse book
of life, and translated this huge tome into a
meaningful edition for the
research community,» says Jane Rogers, head
of sequencing at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge.
However, when we look across the agency, the data also reveal
meaningful differences in patent productivity and downstream economic impact between various areas
of NIH - funded
research.»
The report, «Patents as Proxies: NIH Hubs
of Innovation,» confirms an increased economic value
of NIH patents as compared to private sector patents, as well as
meaningful differences in the rate and quality
of invention across different
research and development (R&D) investments.
United for Medical
Research, a Washington, D.C. — based lobbying group, says «this
meaningful increase for NIH makes real progress toward catching up from the past decade
of underfunding and keeping up with scientific advancements and public health needs.»
The 2018 spending bill approved by Congress this week gives a slight but
meaningful boost to the U.S. Department
of Agriculture's (USDA's)
research accounts — including its competitive grants program for universities and other institutions.
Jim Gillogly, a computer scientist with the
research organisation RAND in Santa Monica, California, says that if lots
of people follow Canter and Siegel's example, the proportion
of meaningful messages to irrelevant ones «will drop even further than it already has, and the Net will become unusable».
«We look forward to conducting further
research through the STARTRK - 2 phase II trial and are hopeful that treatment with entrectinib in patients with a range
of advanced or metastatic solid tumors harboring NTRK1 / 2/3, ROS1, or ALK gene fusions will result in very
meaningful benefit.»
It is clear that the People's Liberation Army plays a major role in China's space missions, says Dean Cheng, a
research fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. «It begs the question
of whether there is a civilian manned space program in any
meaningful sense
of the word,» he says.
She liked the
research environment, but «toward the end
of my Ph.D.,» she says, «I wanted to find something that felt... existentially
meaningful, something that connected me to the really important, big issues in life.»
«Our
research suggests that contrary to stereotypes, games have the potential to be as
meaningful to players as other, more esteemed forms
of entertainment such as literature or cinema.»
Speakers from AJWS will discuss how its decision to use outcome harvesting aligned with AJWS's approach to
research, learning and evaluation, including a dedication to feminist
research and
meaningful measures
of progress when addressing issues that have complex root causes.
«Similarly 71 drugs approved by the FDA from 2002 to 2014 for solid tumours have resulted in median gains in progression - free and overall survival
of only 2.5 and 2.1 months, respectively,» he says adding, «Also, only 42 per cent met the American Society
of Clinical Oncology Cancer
Research Committee's criteria for
meaningful results for patients.»
«It is incredibly exciting to see these women doing
meaningful, cutting edge
research while also being deeply committed to engage with the next generation
of scientists.
«Having a concentration
of facilities and scientific insight in an environment where this group
of talented researchers is given every opportunity to succeed — again, regardless
of level — will ensure that CUNY generates top - level
research outputs demonstrating very clearly that its students are making
meaningful contributions.»
Reauthorization
of the Zadroga Act by Congress will ensure that these observations will have an opportunity to translate into a
meaningful and sustainable clinical and
research impact.
Research into how social media websites define us socially and the influence that social media has on our personal welfare suggests that a lack
of social participation on Facebook leads to people feeling less
meaningful.
«There is a pressure on science education
research to become more
meaningful to policy and practice,» said Jan Van Driel, a professor
of science education at Leiden University in the Netherlands and one
of the mentors at the meeting.
Schlessinger taught me how to ask
meaningful questions in my
research, and I have gained much from his insightful directions and strong commitment to the education
of his students.
The authors
of these papers from several universities and members
of the
research team — which included community members in
meaningful roles — affirmed the higher purpose
of science — to expand knowledge and serve the common good.
«There has always been a sense
of unease that we might be interpreting something incorrectly but this gives us confidence that resting state variations can be interpreted in a
meaningful way and encourages us to continue the
research we have been doing for a number
of years.
In war, anticipating the enemy's next move is half the battle, and some
of the most
meaningful advances in Alzheimer's
research in recent years have to do with reconnaissance.
The fact that nearly all
of our kidney transplant patients are thriving one year later indicates the
research and new treatment protocols we are developing and using can make the most
meaningful difference for the people we treat,» said Jordan.