Sentences with phrase «science learning called»

The main reason is its success in the international survey comparing 15 - year - olds in reading, math and science learning called PISA (Program for International Student Assessment).

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By summer the development staff had working demos of Sammy's Science House, the third in Edmark's early - learning line; Thinkin» Things 2, the second in its critical - thinking line for 4 - to 8 - year - olds; and the first two titles in a line called Imagination Express, a series of interactive story - writing programs for 6 - to 12 - year - olds.

Michael Jordan, a machine learning expert and computer science professor at University of California, Berkeley, said there is «way too much hype» regarding the capabilities of so - called chat bots.

Sift Science's algorithms constantly adapt to fraudsters» changing tactics, updating statistical models in real time — a process Tan calls «machine learning.»

More recently, we worked with Disney Pixar to bridge the disconnect between what students learn about math and science at school and tackling creative challenges in the real world with an initiative called Pixar in a Box.

If humans are the result of so - called «intelligent design» then why do we have too little room on our jawbones to accommodate wisdom teeth (unless this alleged «god» intended our teeth to rot out since we're not supposed to have learned science, and therefore that the presence of bacteria plus acids are a bad environment for tooth enamel), and that so many of us are near - sighted, and that women can have FACIAL HAIR (is that a cruel joke?)

The American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the Howard Hughes Medical Insti.tute (HHMI) published a joint report, ti.tled Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians in which they call for increased emphasis on evolution as one of the basic sciences students learn before they come to medical school.

You learned nothing of science, let alone enginnering.You did, however, learn alot about a mythical story called creationism.

The Chicago Museum of Science and Industry has an awesome free online science program called Summer Brain Games that will keep kids learning this summer and help prevent summer brainScience and Industry has an awesome free online science program called Summer Brain Games that will keep kids learning this summer and help prevent summer brainscience program called Summer Brain Games that will keep kids learning this summer and help prevent summer brain drain.

To prevent this, the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry is offering up a fun and free online science program called Summer Brain Games that will keep kids learning this summer and prevent the «summer brain drain.Science and Industry is offering up a fun and free online science program called Summer Brain Games that will keep kids learning this summer and prevent the «summer brain drain.science program called Summer Brain Games that will keep kids learning this summer and prevent the «summer brain drain.»

Learn about the seasonal birds that call our beaches home while contributing to one of our important citizen science programs.

While some citizen science programs are modeled on the idea that volunteers are strictly there to learn from professionals, Shirk said citizen scientists also want to be part of a discovery and help gather data relevant to a problem that interests them in calling upon programs to embrace learning together.

«It's the first conclusive evidence that so - called active learning courses, which science educators have promoted for decades as a better way to teach than lectures and cookbook labs, can lower the high attrition rates in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields at U.S. universities.»

It uses a basic principle of cognitive science called «spaced repetition» to improve learning.

In a column in The New York Times last October science writer George Johnson likened Hawaiian's opposition to the telescope to the Catholic Church's oppression of Galileo, and suggested that the indigenous protesters were pawns of environmentalists who «have learned that a few traditionally dressed natives calling for the return of sacred lands can draw more attention than arguments over endangered species and fragile ecosystems.»

James Gee, a professor of learning sciences at the University of Wisconsin, was profoundly humbled when he first played a video game for preschool - age kids called Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside.

The study, which will appear in an upcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science, is the first to document two different but related cognitive phenomena simultaneously: so - called «extreme forgetting» — when kids learn two similar things in rapid succession, and the second thing causes them to forget the first — and delayed remembering — when they can recall the previously forgotten information days later.

To assess how the courses changed attitudes, all of the students completed a 42 - item questionnaire called CLASS (Colorado learning attitudes about science survey) that asks students to agree or disagree with statements about their attitudes toward physics and learning about physics.

Because she's called upon to teach a broad spectrum of science, she is constantly learning.

Science has learned that the letters, sent by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), targeted U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins and NIH researcher Stephen Suomi, revealing their home addresses and phone numbers and urging their neighbors to call and visit them.

Research studies on effective learning show that students lack ways to conceptualize chemical reactions, and NGSS calls for students to develop an understanding of energy principles that they can apply consistently across life and physical science.

In the meantime, preliminary results show that both the tutors, called learning assistants, and the students learn more science than those in a regular class.

In middle and high school, increased opportunities such as science camps like SciGirls, recruitment of girls to participate in upper level science courses or extracurricular activities, informal science learning experiences and increasing visibility and access to women scientists both fictional and real are other methods to sustain girls interest and engagement in so called «hard science» fields.

A significantly greater number of students fail science, engineering and math courses that are taught lecture - style than fail in classes incorporating so - called active learning that expects them to participate in discussions and problem - solving beyond what they've memorized.

When I was in North Carolina last month for the meet - and - greet - and - learn - exhausto - freneti - thon of ScienceOnline 2012, I procured for myself a sampling kit for a citizen science project being conducted by the lab of Rob Dunn, Sci Am Guest Blogger and author of the wonderful book The Wild Life of our Bodies.He's doing a new study called «The Wild Life of Our Homes», and for the low, low price of nothing *, I got a sampling kit with two neato dual - pronged sterile Q - tips, instructions, a questionnaire about the characteristics of my pad, and a mailing address to send it back to.

For those interested in learning more about the program, we call attention to a description of the AAF published in Science Translational Medicine and available here.

We call upon governments to improve the governance of science by empowering women and young scientists, stimulating policy debates, exchanging knowledge of best practices and lessons learned, and by strengthening local institutions.

Star Trek (1966 — 1969), called Star Trek: The Original Series to distinguish it from its successors, is a legendary science fiction television series Saraswati (Sanskrit: सरस्वती, Sarasvatī) is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, arts, wisdom, and learning worshipped throughout Nepal

For example, some of the partnerships were in the form of weekly phone calls to provide advice on science fair projects, while others were classvisits to help teachers and students learn how to adapt solar energy in their classrooms.

In the learning science world, this is called «blocking».

Two leading educators have told Education Matters that the key to engaging high school students with STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) is through teachers, and have called for a greater focus on professional learning.

Nothing about these learning pathways is in conflict with the call for higher career - and college - ready standards, such as the Common Core State Standards adopted by 45 states and new science standards adopted so far by a smaller number.

Explore Newton's first three laws of motion with this video, from a series called «The Science of the Winter Olympics» that the National Science Foundation and NBC Learn created a few years ago.

That's the only way to leverage the science behind cognitive learning, or «intelligent learning», as it is sometimes called, and make it relevant in today's eLearning environment.

8) Clifford Stoll: The call to learn Clifford Stoll captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations, asides — and even a science experiment.

In a project called CoVis, for example, participants learn about science using some of the same research tools and data sets used by scientists in the field.

So, we put out a call through our Science of Learning Research Centre network, through emails to school principals, on whether the teachers would be keen to come along to do an eight week intervention with us.

If you're a teacher and you're suddenly told you have to teach this thing called Computer Science (which you may not even know what it is really), then being able to work with familiar resources is a really easy way to get into it, rather than being told «by the way first of all install this, buy this robot kit and get funding for this and learn how to do that... it's not compatible... sort that out» and so on.

Learn from the early implementers: New report calls out best practices for profession learning around Next Generation Science Standards

It's part of a project called Social Aspects of Immersive Learning (SAIL) funded by the National Science Foundation.

I teach 2nd grade math and science and his idea on Global learning through the Mystery Animal skype calls.

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) call for significant shifts in the way science is taught and lScience Standards (NGSS) call for significant shifts in the way science is taught and lscience is taught and learned.

The Next Generation Science Standards call on educators to guide students to «figure out» rather than «learn about» sScience Standards call on educators to guide students to «figure out» rather than «learn about» sciencescience.

This learning game can be paired with content - area vocabulary, like the 2nd Grade Science — Animals word list, or literary vocabulary, like the 7th Grade Literature Call of the Wild word list.

As the founder of a digital learning company called ELM, I've observed, in my 20 years in the industry, that there are two additional components that are just as important: learning science and learning technology, or EdTech.

We follow what we call the STEA3M model, offering high quality experiences for students in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, AVID college prep, Advanced Learning and Mathematics.

The teachers were all asked to use a series called the periodic table of videos — created by chemists from the University of Nottingham — a powerful learning tool about the joy and wonder of science.

There is a science to training dogs and it's called the learning theory.

We called it «The SLC» for Science Learning Center.

However, from what I've been able to learn from the people who actually do this type of research, there are simply too many variables and too many uncertainties in the field of climate science to make the sort of claims being made by advocates of the so - called «consensus» view.