Caldis, who is taking a year off teaching at school to teach pre-service educators at Macquarie University,
says connecting learning to the real world and getting students out of the classroom to carry out their own investigations increases engagement and interest in the subject.
Not exact matches
Echo
connects to your Wi - Fi and gets its information from the cloud, and Amazon
says that it will continually
learn and add more functionality over time.
It's all about how they feel about the brands,
connected to actual utility and the things that you're building,»
says Kris Chinosorn, CEO of MentorMob, a skill and knowledge platform that maps definitive step - by - step
learning paths from current Internet how - to content, and touts partnerships with the likes of Virgin Mobile and Microsoft Bizspark.
While gadgets are often a source of «complexity, frustration and headaches» for the nation's 76 million baby boomers,
said AARP chief JoAnn Jenkins in a statement, the RealPad aims to help them embrace «the benefits of technology such as
connecting with family, friends, communities and enjoying books, games and
learning.»
Airports were closed, and the complaint
says that the passengers
learned when they landed in Moscow that their
connecting flight from Moscow to New York had been canceled.
Workers and visitors pray and sing outdoors, discuss Jewish texts about nature and
learn hands - on about the countless Jewish laws and customs
connected to farming and how they can be applied for stopping waste, helping the poor and sustaining the planet, Chain
said.
Each week's sermon preparation presents another opportunity to
learn about the 1914 Christmas truce,
say, or a medieval English traveler in China, and to
connect these stories to sacred stories.
Not just booking the most exotic destination and filling your itinerary with restaurants and shops — don't get us wrong, we're not
saying to scrap that — but the most fulfilling trips happen when you challenge yourself, seek to
learn and
connect (or, in some cases, disconnect).
Just not to some ex military with experience in logistics Like my husband The NEW Department was supposed to go to four better
connected men with less seniority > His father
said one day he will
learn to respect his betters and he still needed taught what that was.
If someone were to ask me why I'm involved in social media, I would probably
say that there are two reasons: One is to
connect with other people, which means making friends,
learning from others, and having conversations (both meaningful and frivolous).
The meetings are open to anyone who wants to
learn about attachment parenting or
connect with other parents who follow the ideals, she
said.
«We want young New Yorkers engaged and safe in
learning environments and that is the reason why in addition to the guidance that was announced, the city will be launching «Know Your Rights» workshops to ensure every New Yorker is educated and
connected to the help they need,» Agarwal
said.
Too often, he
said, they just
learn a mix of topics at primary school and Hitler and Henry VIII at secondary school «without knowing how the vivid episodes of our past become a
connected narrative», adding: «This trashing of our past has to stop.»
«I'm a great believer in
connecting actions to
learning,» she
said.
Eliza Reilly, executive director of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement, a non-profit which seeks to strengthen student
learning and interest in STEM by
connecting course topics to issues of local, national and global importance,
said rethinking STEM education is necessary to produce graduates equipped to tackle society's environmental, economic and political challenges.
«It's too early for conclusions, but we expect the results to help us
connect what we
learned at Yellowknife Bay to what we'll
learn at Mount Sharp,»
said John Grotzinger, Curiosity project scientist at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
For example, «the whole idea that musical training and language development may be
connected came from me talking to a couple of teachers who
said they had students who were poor readers and who also struggled with
learning to play a musical instrument and with copying musical patterns and wondered if those two things could be
connected.»
By identifying these errors and
learning why they're inaccurate (caverns and the minerals shown simply couldn't exist at those depths and pressures, nor would an M10.5 earthquake strike our planet), Stein
said he offers students an entertaining way to
connect with their inner skeptic: a vital trait for young scientists in training.
«A lot of women aren't satisfied with the way their bodies look, but when we're in control and
connected to our bodies through masturbating, we
learn a lot about who we are,» she
says.
Plus, this ancient practice «is great for regaining your focus, and
learning to move and
connect with your breath, which is essential for running efficiently,»
says Clayton.
Yet I
learned that if I was selective with my time and energy and to whom or to what I
said yes, I was honoring my body and, again, more able to stay
connected to my intentions.
I love to laugh and
connect with people, I've always been interested in
learning new things about different cultures and relating with others, I guess there's not much to
say until we meet
In under a month, enrollees will
learn how to eliminate self - doubt, which Samantha
said is an essential factor in
connecting and growing with a partner.
Learn more about western men — Because eharmony, was established way back in 1998, you can
say that this dating website has a long experience
connecting people with their love on the internet.
They know they are «running,» which is the film's way of
saying that Ricky and Hec are
learning about their true selves as they try to outrun others and
connect through tough love.
«What we found is that school staff are very interested in
connecting with families to support
learning and school improvement, but don't always know how to do that,» Mapp
said.
Reich and Daccord, founders of a professional development firm called EdTechTeacher,
say they've seen a surge in tablets in schools since 2010, when the iPad was released, but not a corresponding surge in strategies to
connect them to
learning goals.
Teach the art of piggybacking ideas in class discussion so that students
learn to
connect what they are
saying to the ideas of the person who spoke before them.
«The most important use for information technology is to improve education,» Mr. Gates
said in announcing the new program, called «The
Connected Learning Community.»
The Link Between Art and History Harvard Gazette, 4/19/16» «We create tours that
connect back to what they're
learning in class,»
said HGSE student teacher Jessica Paik.
I loved the fact that kids got to know the world outside school and
learned that with technology they could talk to people anywhere,
said Luisa Ojeda - Vera, a kindergarten teacher at Florida's Sand Pine Elementary School, whose students used Skype to
connect with a class at another school in the district.
The challenge is to create a multitude of options «without lowering the quality of any of the choices,»
says Gary Hoachlander, the president of
ConnectEd, which oversees the Linked
Learning initiative in California.
Wilkinson
said: «Students are challenged to
connect what they have
learned with what they might
learn next, collect data, analyse results and apply big ideas to solving real - world problems.
Connecting students with an authentic audience is key, he
says, to driving engagement and helping students relate what they are
learning to the real world.
«You don't
learn to play baseball by a year of batting practice,» he
says, but in
learning math, for instance, students are all too often presented with prescribed problems with only one right solution and no clear indication how they
connect with the real world.
Connecting accountability to the
learning process in real time requires two things: a)
Say, See, Do Teaching so you have time to check students» work during each input - output cycle, and b) plenty of time during Guided Practice to check work rather than service helpless handraisers.
«EdmodoCon is a culmination of the
learning and collaboration across our network all year,»
says Edmodo CEO Vibhu Mittal, who believes their new products will «help teachers engage more students, involve more parents, and
connect with more peers.»
Gamifying your life, they
say, could help you
learn new skills,
connect with others, and become fitter, happier and healthier.
Brendon Riley, Group Executive, Global Enterprise and Services, Telstra,
said it has worked closely with Delany to drive thought leadership, as well as provide a range of innovative and
connected learning technologies, and has been heavily involved in the development and deployment of the new
connected classrooms.
«We teach to all the 4 Cs and the kids
learn in all those ways and it has actually revealed a new space for them to express themselves, to think for themselves, and to
connect with the world through communication,» Dr Jefferson
said.
Many schools offer obvious ways to engage families that also improve academics — family math nights or tutoring sessions — but she
says schools need to get into the mindset of
connecting all of the activities that involve families to
learning, including events like the open house or the spring concert, in ways that are both fun and useful.
Teachers who are new to using technology will gain confidence from «safe, discrete»
learning activities that
connect to what they are already doing with students,
says Paula Don, director of educational technology for the School District of Philadelphia (SDP).
Just as technology facilitates student
learning, it also helps teachers
connect with students,
says Nicholas Kim, the school's executive.
«Kids mostly see their cell phones as a social toy, not as a
learning instrument,»
says Liz Kolb, adjunct professor at Madonna University, in Lavonia, Michigan, and author of Toys to Tools:
Connecting Student Cell Phones to Education.
Outstanding Young Educator
Connects Learning With Life «Jennifer Morrison is known for using her classroom as a living laboratory for best practices and for sharing research - based knowledge with her colleagues,»
said ASCD executive director Gene R. Carter.
Mike
said Corwin honours the partners it has already
connected with in Australia and is looking forward to spreading the Visible
Learning message.
For library leaders, this paradigm shift has transformed their work into more of an instructional assistant, Zolner
says, which, in turn, requires closer collaboration with faculty to better
connect learning objectives with informational resources.
That
said, a number of community members shared that they enjoyed the videos, found the suggested apps helpful,
connected with one another on DuoLingo, and shared an explanation with the group on the Total Physical Response Method for language
learning.
It is not enough anymore to
say we are creating a generation of life - long learners if we are not embracing a change in our philosophy in schools to a more personalized, inquiry - driven model that
connects a student's
learning to the world.
«We're concerned that students are
learning critical thinking and deep thinking about novels, for instance, in the ELA courses - that they can critique a text and understand its role; they can
connect it to history and all the different interdisciplinary connections that good literature helps us do,» Larson
said.