Sentences with phrase «passive consumers»

But I don't do it often because I find that creates passive consumers.

I also understand the frustration regarding passive consumers of your info.

Move students from being passive consumers of information to active creators by welcoming their ingenuity and imagination.

We respect farmers as true in - situ innovators and not as passive consumers of the «biotech toolbox».

She wants to transform attitudes about computers and computer science — to encourage students and teachers to see themselves as active creators, not passive consumers, of computer technology, and to show how computing can be a powerful means of self - expression and problem - solving.

But preaching and the sermon have been thought of as the exclusive work of the clergy, and the laity has been assigned the role of passive consumer rather than active participant.

Attendees of these events, just like those at Mini Maker Faires, are not just passive consumers of information, but are also active participants in the day.

It's possible and, more than ever, necessary to disrupt young people's relationship with media, to equip them to take more care in how they perceive the world and, ultimately, evolve from passive consumers into change agents with their own messages to share.

Beyond reconciling the preferences of these two groups, online viewers must fight the temptation to become passive consumers rather than active participants in the church.

«Once we become used to not being creative — to being merely passive consumers — it seems that the creativity muscle begins to atrophy, which does not bode well for future generations,» Mehta said.

Are we headed for a world, like in the movie WALL - E, where humans are such passive consumers of technology we become dumb and helpless?

Yes, new tech can be awesome, but beneath this celebration of new technology and making things, we discover that the true heart of the maker curricula is discovering what it means to be engaged in the world in the most direct way and no longer be only passive consumers.

One of the most disabling images with respect to effective preaching is the image which clergy have of laity as passive consumers of preaching rather than as active partners.

Here's how YOUMedia describes its research - based model: «YOUMedia's core philosophy is that youth are best engaged when they're following their passions, collaborating with others, and being makers and doers, not passive consumers.»

Students should not be treated as passive consumers of educational commodities; faculty should not feel compelled to act as dutiful enforcers of policy they do not write.

Startups like De Correspondent in the Netherlands, which is funded completely by subscribers (or members, as they call them) have shown that treating readers as partners rather than passive consumers has a number of benefits, including improving the site's journalism.

At the other end, there are costs to the consciences of workers who come to see themselves as passive consumers of paychecks and workplace orders given by others, rather than as active participants in the common enterprise of productive effort.

Students are made to be passive consumers of content (or «knowledge digesters»), as if preparing for the world of 1953, rather than becoming the «knowledge transformers» needed in an increasingly competitive global environment.

Television is still the best way to reach the passive consumer and the last thing incumbent politicians want is their hitherto passively shepherded electors stirred up.

re-engagement of people in politics, allowing them to take and use power for themselves rather than treating them as passive consumers;

The choice of this theme could not have been more apt and timely considering the myriad of avenues aggressors are putting information out there and its impact on combatants and passive consumers of these information.

This view assumed that the role of animals was minor, and mostly that of a passive consumer of nutrients.

Much has been written about the need for today's students, tomorrow's STEM workforce, to move beyond being passive consumers of technology and to actively explore and create with technology.

Instead of being passive consumers of information, site visitors can zoom and otherwise manipulate the images on screen.

And they're creating an interdisciplinary curriculum to provide students of all ages with the skills necessary to move from being passive consumers of media to critical listeners, viewers, readers, and producers of all types of media.

As facilitators, we can assist students in moving beyond being passive consumers of information and toward becoming active producers of insight and innovation.

Built on the premise that students learn better as creators of content rather than passive consumers of information, G Suite provides an environment for teachers and students to collaborate, create, and share using Google Tools including Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Classroom.

I was more than a passive consumer in this process: Apple's mandate that they would sell recorded music at 99 cents for a single was one of the signposts on the highway that lead to the closing of the business that employed me for 22 years.

The reader become a co-creator in the process rather than just a passive consumer.

We aren't even readers at that point — we're passive consumers.

Entitled «Sparks Will Fly», it was an essay about what I call «Creator Culture», the idea that technology and social progress are making all of us, instead of passive consumers, active creators.

I'm a passive consumer on a couple of email lists myself.

I can imagine that it is frustrating to have passive consumers, but a quick — «hey, I have to pay to keep you on the mailing list, so if you don't really need to hear from me, then unsubscribe» would have probably worked fine to encourage people to take action or get off the list.

i too get a little frustrated from the «passive consumers» of my marketing emails and fb, instagram and pinterest posts — but it's all part of it.

I am another passive consumer, and possibly costing you money.

As a passive consumer (right now) and part - time artist, my goal is to build my skill and my art business as I slowly ease into retirement from my day job.

It thus places emphasis on «surface, image and display,» while rendering us «passive consumers and impotent political agents.»

It has been argued such spaces render us passive consumers and impotent political agents.

Even today, Africans and African Americans are largely seen as passive consumers.

Instead, Brown wants us to become political activists, loud and outspoken, because activists — not passive consumers — are the ones who have always changed the course of history.

For more on how people are moving away from being passive consumers to becoming content creators, check out the video of a Clay Shirky talk I posted to my blog back in April.

(p. 45) «While their parents were passive consumers of media, youth today are active creators of media content and hungry for interaction.»

Traditionally, the term «professional development» has been seen as a one - time or «one - day - one - stop» only activity, that is, workshops and conferences in which the participant is a passive consumer of information.