Sentences with phrase «of spatial thinking»

As the semester proceeded, their understanding of spatial thinking and how GST can support students» spatial thinking was enhanced, and participants came to believe more strongly that spatial thinking is something that should be taught in formal education.

The role of GST in geography education has become more explicit in the revision of Geography Standard 1, «How to use maps and other geographic representations, geospatial technologies, and spatial thinking to understand and communicate information» (Heffron & Downs, 2012, p. 21), reflecting the development of GST and increased recognition of spatial thinking as a key practice in geography (Bednarz, 2015).

From redlining to benevolent societies: The emancipatory power of spatial thinking.

Mary Maclean's work in photography explores the intersections of spatial thought and the flux of things that are always on the move, even if captured in the apparently implacable, static, objecthood of the image.

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There is no real reason an atheist couldn't say: «keep women out of the office, they are less intelligent, have less potential for abstract thought and spatial thinking, also they can't reverse park».

It is said for example that thoughts do not occur at a place in the body at all, not even in the brain; more importantly it is pointed out that the spatial properties of images do not coincide with spatial properties of any part of the brain and that therefore the images must be in some sort of mental space.

Because temporal order can be given a spatial mapping, we are led to think of a temporal dimension which is like a spatial dimension.

We think of everyday life within the framework of minutes, hours, and days, and we measure it in standard spatial units such as feet, yards, miles, or kilometers.

Thus, in the mythological manner of representation, God's transcendence is thought of as spatial distance.»

The core of process thought: Rather than a «substance theology» based on static, spatial models, process thought «switches gears» to a concern with spatial - temporal models such as change in God, Christ becoming divine and the on - going process of revelation.

Cobb believes that this «offers us our best analogy for thinking of the spatial relation of God and the world.»

Thus, for example, they found it hard to think of the Eucharist in other than spatial terms.

I think that a spatial model should reflect these facts — the superject of an experience should permeate the body like a «public spirit» that fills the spaces among the cells.

In thinking of the world we rarely consider the purposes of these basic entities; instead, we tend to be conscious of and think almost entirely of collections of entities, arranged in complex spatial and temporal patterns.

Each theologian, including Jesus, reflects the thought patterns of a time and expresses the meaning of the divine within the conceptual, spatial and temporal framework available to him or her.

I think he should have, for it is but the spatiotemporal form of his argument that spatial extendedness requires a plurality of unitary entities, one here, another there.

The Speed and efficiency of thought increases, spatial working memory improves, emotional regulation becomes greater, planning and problem solving skills increase, and scientific reasoning and ability to understand one's own thinking develops.

Citing concerns about the possibility of a link between this toxin and impaired language, memory, cognitive thinking and fine - motor and visual - spatial skills among children who were exposed to it in utero, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have established fish - intake guidelines for women who are pregnant or might become pregnant (and, later, when nursing).

The participants in the study took a variety of tests, which measured different aspects of their thinking abilities including memory span and verbal and spatial abilities.

Researchers at the Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy, University of Leeds, and the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, have been developing a range of high - technology ways to see and think about the modern city.

It is involved in higher functions such as sensory perception, generation of motor commands, spatial reasoning, conscious thought, and in humans, language.

A rat's position in space can be represented in the medial entorhinal cortex in addition to the neighboring hippocampus, the area previously thought to be the only locus of spatial information.

For instance, zapping the temporal lobe using deep - brain stimulation can improve spatial memory, and using a powerful magnet to alter activity in the right temporoparietal junction can make our moral compass go haywire, causing behaviors we think of as immoral to become permissible.

He thinks instead of space - time, the blending of three spatial dimensions and the dimension of time described by Einstein's general relativity.

Martin, head of the INI, wanted to study the circuitry of the macaque neocortex, which carries out higher functions such as spatial reasoning and conscious thought.

Within six hours of viewing this film, the period during which memories are thought to be consolidated for long - term storage, test subjects were randomly assigned to one of three tasks: answering trivia; playing Tetris, a 1980s video game that involves optimizing visual - spatial cues; or engaging in nothing in particular.

But at the same time, any sort of high - level thinking also required those same visual / spatial systems to create the internal images of thought.

Thus, we have the following: Under the cognitive load of thinking — which almost always entailed visualization, pattern matching and generating the spatial imagery to form analogies — my damaged brain would rapidly grow fatigued.

• Encouraging caregivers to increase their use of words for number, for the spatial properties of objects, and for abstract relations like similarity has the potential for improving children's understanding of number and spatial thinking, and their ability to make sophisticated comparisons.

«The nature view claims that left - handers are inherently better at some sports because their hand movements are controlled by the right hemisphere of the brain, which emphasizes spatial thinking,» she said.

«We think the cognitive map in the hippocampus is not just for knowing where the self is located,» says Fujisawa, «but also for plotting the locations of other people, animals, or objects, and to comprehend the spatial environment surrounding the self.»

This has led cognitive scientists to claim that using spatial concepts to talk and think about time is a universal characteristic of the human mind.

They offer a wider - angle view of the linkage at a spatial scale that is large than previously thought.

Since all receptor neurons of the same type converge onto the same glomerulus, it was thought that spatial information linked to their location on the antenna was therefore lost.

The researchers think this relates to the structure of the birds» brains, in which the left side handles spatial tasks and the right side governs social recognition.

Microbes are thought to be distributed heterogeneously at spatial scales of less than a millimeter.

I thought his juggling of timeframes in this was masterful: he really is a great combination of a broad appeal, popular cinema focused on spectacle, and intelligent integration of temporal / spatial play that keeps the spectator questioning, anticipating and hypothesising.

Most importantly, research shows that video games sharpen visual discrimination skills, spatial thinking, and the ability to visualize and interact with 3D objects — good predictors of not only academic achievement but future engagement and success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — the STEM fields.

Benefits of arts education In addition to economic benefits of investment in arts education for students in the primary and secondary sectors there are a plethora of social and intellectual benefits: • encouraging self expression and self awareness • building confidence and self esteem • thinking creatively and conceptually • problem solving • increasing motivation and improving behaviour • developing organisational skills • being able to work collaboratively and independently • developing multiple learning styles • building maturity and appreciation • developing observational skills • raising global awareness and respect for other cultures • promoting literacy through analysis and interpretation • increasing enjoyment and fun in learning • developing spatial and visual skills • encouraging qualitative awareness • seeing different perspectives • openness to subtlety, nuance, flexibility and imagination

It gets children thinking about using visual and spatial clues to help them remember the location of pairs of cards.

The project documents the effectiveness of instructional practices that are likely to enhance multistep reasoning, systems thinking, conceptual and spatial understanding, and motivation for learning while learning to work with maps to solve problems involving geography and ecological awareness.

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A series of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) modules were created to promote higher - level thinking and spatial skills.

Dr. Ganley is especially interested in student learning in areas of mathematics that require spatial thinking (i.e., geometry and measurement).

To think more about the stories that data tell, especially in spatial form, teacher candidates explored Esri's Story Maps, an extension of ArcGIS Online.

Items 1 through 4 assess preservice teachers» beliefs about, self - confidence in, and willingness to use GST in their future classrooms, whereas Items 5 through 8 are related more to their awareness of and beliefs about teaching spatial thinking in schools.

Reliability and validity of the instrument have not yet been established, but this is the only available instrument in the literature to assess teacher disposition related to teaching spatial thinking.

The questions were extracted from the Teaching Spatial Thinking through Geography Disposition Inventory, which has 40 items across five item categories: Teaching thinking skills, teaching spatial thinking, spatial thinking in geography, explicit teaching of spatial concepts, and adopting spatial representations and geospatial technologies (Jo & Bednarz,Spatial Thinking through Geography Disposition Inventory, which has 40 items across five item categories: Teaching thinking skills, teaching spatial thinking, spatial thinking in geography, explicit teaching of spatial concepts, and adopting spatial representations and geospatial technologies (Jo & BednarzThinking through Geography Disposition Inventory, which has 40 items across five item categories: Teaching thinking skills, teaching spatial thinking, spatial thinking in geography, explicit teaching of spatial concepts, and adopting spatial representations and geospatial technologies (Jo & Bednarzthinking skills, teaching spatial thinking, spatial thinking in geography, explicit teaching of spatial concepts, and adopting spatial representations and geospatial technologies (Jo & Bednarz,spatial thinking, spatial thinking in geography, explicit teaching of spatial concepts, and adopting spatial representations and geospatial technologies (Jo & Bednarzthinking, spatial thinking in geography, explicit teaching of spatial concepts, and adopting spatial representations and geospatial technologies (Jo & Bednarz,spatial thinking in geography, explicit teaching of spatial concepts, and adopting spatial representations and geospatial technologies (Jo & Bednarzthinking in geography, explicit teaching of spatial concepts, and adopting spatial representations and geospatial technologies (Jo & Bednarz,spatial concepts, and adopting spatial representations and geospatial technologies (Jo & Bednarz,spatial representations and geospatial technologies (Jo & Bednarz, 2014).

Nevertheless, the findings of this study suggest that a set of simple Web - based GIS experiences aligned with geographic inquiry and spatial thinking can be effective for enhancing preservice teachers» dispositions toward using GST in their future classrooms.

As a parent of kids who are brilliant at mathematics, spatial thinking, technology and creativity, please please fight grammar streaming in schools as these really clever kids end up working in lower ability groups.