Sentences with phrase «of opening her textbook»

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Firstly, it can buy or sell securities outright, which is the textbook description of open market operations.

This subsection itself bears comparison with Chapter II of Science and the Modern World; again it is entirely congenial to Whitehead's approach, if indeed it is not his own statement of it, that is reflected in the openings of subsections» (a) Nature of number,»» (b) Fundamental concepts of geometry,» and» (c) Nature of applied mathematics The theme of starting with clear principles in mathematics has run throughout Whitehead's earlier work, particularly his lectures on the teaching of mathematics and his textbook.

Simply google «history of life on Earth» or open up a tenth grade biology or geology textbook.

When school begins, she'll have a better understanding of school's purpose and be more confident when she opens her textbooks.

Are we so sure that the textbook diagram of the Earth sliced open, with nested layers of yellow, orange, and red, reflects reality?

Beside one is an open Bible; beside the other is a standard paleontology textbook — the message being, as it will be explained to me many times before I leave, that everyone's view of reality is inescapably colored and distorted by that person's «starting assumptions.»

Open a science textbook, and the chances are that somewhere near the back you will find a list of fundamental constants.

LOOK AROUND YOU Open your math textbooks to chapter 3.1415926 and enjoy the subtle but distinctly British humor in this straight - faced send - up of classic classroom film strips.

The open - source dream got a new boost in May, when Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger, responding to his state's budget crisis, asked content developers to submit their «open - source digital textbooks» to California Learning Resource Network (CLRN), a 10 - year - old project established by the Board of Education that has long hosted supplemental electronic resources for the state.

While the real power of open - source textbooks, Bridges and others say, is being able to tap into the knowledge of the nation's 3 million schoolteachers, a look at the recent crop of books suggests that's not an accurate reflection of how educational content is being created.

«If you went back a few years and opened a textbook you'd see the classic hippocampal circuit that's been diagrammed for a hundred years, and you'd look at the subiculum and you'd see it labeled as one region, with one type of cell, doing one thing,» Cembrowski explains.

Astronomy Textbook — A free, open source Introductory textbook to Astronomy from OpenStax Astronomy timeline — A very concise history of Astronomy Astronomy MOOCs — A list of open courses in Astronomy Astronomy courses — A compilation of MOOCs Crash Course Astronomy videos — If you are new to Astronomy and short on time, these youtube videos offer a good start Silicon Valley Astronomy lectures — Audio and video of well - known scientists explaining astronomical developments in everyday language.

Open any biology textbook, and you'll find that the primary function of insulin is to help glucose exit your blood and enter tissues, but that insulin also facilitates the movement of fatty acids and amino acids out of your blood and into tissues (1).

Today's «day in the life» post is one of my current job, which focuses heavily on supporting my fellow faculty find and use open educational resources (an educational movement to help bring down student costs by using or creating free and high - quality texts and resources instead of expensive textbooks).

For someone who'd only read about military conquest in history textbooks, Steven Spielberg's World War II painted the missing horrors and chaos of war with his opening D - Day sequence on the beaches of Normandy.

Since Infinity War arrived, the major studios have released just two movies: Warner Bros.» Melissa McCarthy comedy Life of the Party, which made $ 18.5 million in its opening weekend, the lowest total for a McCarthy vehicle since she became a movie star; and the $ 16.5 million - earning Breaking In, a Gabrielle Union thriller from Universal and Will Packer Productions, the company that has delivered two textbook counterprograms, Girls Trip and the Ride Along films.

Open source digital textbooks, which contain free, typically changeable material that can be shared between teachers, have been in the works for several years and are just one part of a larger movement to transform learning through the use of technology.

Within and hour of the NASA announcement regarding Arsenic - containing bacteria, I sent an e-mail to a major textbook publisher and to a major provider of open - source textbooks (http://www.ck12.org).

The week this announcement was made, Edutopia had an article on the use of open source curricular materials - a growing trend being driven, in part, by the extraordinary cost of commercial textbooks.

They offer open source textbooks, where, for example, all of our field guides are digitized.

What's most important to understand about the digital textbook effort is that it's an opportunity to open up a large amount of existing public money that has been locked into use by a very small and closed set of publishers.

Earlier this year, the state of Washington launched the Open Course Library, a collection of open source textbooks for the state's 81 most popular college courses, and California has just proposed legislation that would fund a similar effort thOpen Course Library, a collection of open source textbooks for the state's 81 most popular college courses, and California has just proposed legislation that would fund a similar effort thopen source textbooks for the state's 81 most popular college courses, and California has just proposed legislation that would fund a similar effort there.

All of the textbooks were open.

Opening my textbook to look at sample problems reveals the constant repetition of names that the majority of my students don't share.

I would open their book bags and lockers to find balls of crumpled papers under stacked textbooks.

Open Stax offers free textbooks across a range of subjects.

Open source authoring can provide more diverse and up - to - date materials than the lumbering print - textbook process can, and if teachers contribute, it could pour the wisdom of wired teachers everywhere into a collective global brain.

Three Fridays each year, Freeport (Maine) Middle School closes its textbooks and opens its doors to a different kind of learning.

We can explain and explore topics like: student voice, problem based learning, open source learning, the flipped class, collaborative learning, design learning, the maker movement, coding, digital literacy, digital citizenship, social media, the stress on the family from unneeded homework, necessity or lack of it for textbooks in our education system.

If open educational resources rely on teachers to spend lots of time sifting through materials or creating it themselves, that could send teachers back to textbooks posthaste.

Sheldon Berman: «Online, students can take their learning far beyond their textbooks into the real world of open - ended problems and unanswered questions.»

The Texas State Board of Education has voted unanimously to open the state's textbook - selection process to people who want to speak in favor of a particular textbook.

«Online, students can take their learning far beyond their textbooks into the real world of open - ended problems and unanswered questions,» he explains.

This program uses four types of quizzes (reading practice, vocabulary practice, literacy skills, textbook quizzes) to assess students» daily progress, measuring the quality, quantity, and level of difficulty they are reading using the Advantage TASA Open Standard, a readability formula that provides reading levels based on the entire contents of books.

The growing wealth of open educational resources and the ability to organize them through content management systems makes the standard textbook look positively obsolete.

With textbooks open, they watched a lecture about Newton's Laws on a giant screen, while their classroom teacher simultaneously offered examples of those laws in action.

It is ironic, to say the least, that since ringing the bell to open the «School of the Future,» Vallas has blown through New Orleans, Haiti and Chile and has now joined us in Bridgeport, while former Microsoft VP Mary Cullinane, who developed a school with Vallas that didn't use textbooks, is now a corporate officer with the company that Vallas is buying his standardized tests and textbooks from.

Literature textbooks line the shelves of Bill Moore's classroom at North Junior High School, and his seventh graders grasp their pencils, their journals lying open on their desks.

Students are guaranteed an engaging learning experience through the ability to build from any source or mode of content, including textbooks, Open Educational Resources (OER), and real - time media.

The instruction described in this article incorporated several textbook resources, including CK - 12 Foundation (www.ck12.org) and Florida's Orange Grove (http://florida.theorangrove.org), both of which provide current open - source text appropriate for the secondary science curriculum.

As part of an undergraduate secondary science methods course, the university faculty member Brian Zoellner guided the preservice secondary education science methods teachers through the open textbook design, showing them flexible book options for adapting and building their own textbooks, as well as exploring options for differentiated instruction.

Because of financial, legislative, and technological changes, the use of open - source digital textbooks is likely to increase in the future.

The U.S. DOE's National Education Technology Plans of 2010 and 2016 promoted the concept of using open educational resources, such as digital open textbooks, as being more dynamic and responsive to the context of the classroom over print - based textbooks, while also providing a significant cost savings to school districts.

Part of this process was to inform them about free electronic text sources available, specifically the Orange Grove Digital Repository and CK - 12 websites (see Figure 1), which provide open textbooks for math and science at a variety of grade levels and courses.

SB 1784 by Sen. Larry Taylor / Rep. Dan Huberty clarifies the definition of «open - source instructional material» to refer to resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that allows for free use, including courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, videos tests, software and other materials used to support access to knowledge.

The budget allocates $ 3 million for reusable e-readers specifically for incarcerated students, which, when combined with free open source textbooks, provides a cost - effective way to support the maximum number of new students seeking to rejoin the pathway to a career.

The first set of online textbooks released under Michigan's Open Book Project is drawing criticism from some educators and experts.

Avtar's posture reminded Randeep of the trips he used to make between college and home, his own textbook open on his lap.

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Digital textbook and non-fiction learning developer Inkling announced an acquisition of two brands of content from Open Air Publishing, adding its Betterbook and Ready, Set, Baby!