Sentences with phrase «social challenges of today»

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Ever since golfer Greg Norman challenged NBC's «TODAY» host Matt Lauer to toss an ice bucket over his head in mid-July to raise money for the Hospice of Palm Beach County in Florida, the Ice Bucket Challenge has become a social media and media sensation.

And while that growth, if it arrives, may benefit some of that state or metro area's residents, the competition itself isn't going to fix any one of the many, many economic and social challenges American communities face today.

MaRS and Virgin Unite Canada, the non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group, announced today that they have joined forces to support Canadian entrepreneurs tackling social and environmental challenges.

With the size and complexity of many of today's most pressing social and environmental problems, governments and communities struggle to overcome the challenges we face.

Part co-working space, part accelerator and part social lab, its mission is to foster and accelerate the impact of an ambitious community of business people and citizens whose vision is to solve together the economic, social and environmental challenges of today.

TORONTO, Dec. 12, 2014 — MaRS and Virgin Unite Canada, the non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group, announced today that they have joined forces to support Canadian entrepreneurs tackling social and environmental challenges.

We are not just talking about a convergence of disciplines, but of an authentically global synthesis in which the various forms of knowledge... find common ground in a shared personal and social vision... We must not imagine that the socio - cultural challenge of today can be met with theological thought that specialises in the content of doctrine or concentrates on religious experience.

Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.

In my opinion all religious figures whom we worship today as God / Son of God / Holy messenger / Incarnation etc were just very wise, maverick and rebels of their age who challenged the entrenched corrupt social practices of their time.

While each of St Benedict's twelve steps of humility (which are listed below) have a strong message of their own, the second step in particular is quite a striking one, being of great importance in today's society which is so full of consumerism, family breakdowns, celebrity culture, social media, vanity and many other problems and challenges.

The Reformation and Liberation Theology: Insights for the Challenge of Today by Richard Shaull Westminster, 144 pages, $ 11.95 A veteran liberationist of Princeton Theological Seminary contends that the sundry Protestant reformations demand and make possible a radically new social order.

Volume IV, Number 1 ADHD: the Challenge of Our Time — Eugene Schwartz Helping Children: Where Research and Social Action Meet — Joan Almon Computers, Brains, and Children — Stephen Talbott Movement and Sensory Disorders in Today's Children — Peter Stuck, M.D. Can Waldorf Education Be Practiced in Public Schools?

These are the main results of the research carried out on a sample of 350 young girls and boys representing the Italian population aged 9 - 17 years old «Smartphones, social network and instant messaging services: challenges for children, parents and teachers» presented today in Rome at the «Global Trends in Online Safety: Creating a National Framework» conference, an event developed and co-hosted by the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) and TIM.

Today we can only guess as to why a group of Neanderthals built a series of large stalagmite structures in a French cave — but the fact they did provides a rare glimpse into our extinct cousin's potential for social organisation in a challenging environment.

While social media has made life easy for many of today's singles, it posed just as many challenges for those already in a relationship, Mr Burgess said.

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We are inspired by Jane Hart's call to «Walk the Social Talk», and consider this as the most significant «action» required on the part of learning designers to get equipped for handling the challenges of designing informal and social learning interventions for today's workpSocial Talk», and consider this as the most significant «action» required on the part of learning designers to get equipped for handling the challenges of designing informal and social learning interventions for today's workpsocial learning interventions for today's workplaces.

«In a world of iPods, social networking, online gaming, and instant information, capturing the attention of today's students becomes a bigger challenge every day,» said Charlene Gaynor, CEO of AEP.

Great innovation has purpose behind it and what better purpose than to solve some of the significant social and environmental challenges we face today.

As there are no text book answer for many of the educational and social challenges faced by teachers today, Greenfield's focus on the subjective provides scope for classroom teachers to share in the leadership of solution finding through collective inquiry.

Helping students to cultivate dense networks of social relationships better equips them to handle life's challenges and is particularly vital given the disintegration of many social structures today.

Social and emotional learning also equips students with the skills that today's employers consider important for the workforce of the future — communication, collaboration, cooperation, goal setting, problem solving, and persistence in the face of challenges.

It is beyond evident today that the labor market and societies in the Middle East are demanding individuals who are critical, analytical, capable of taking initiatives and being proactive in responding to the challenges and social needs of their communities.

Social studies educators face the challenge today of not only addressing the digital divide with their own students, but helping their students find methods of addressing this issue in their own teaching.

With the benefit of significant research on this topic (much of it by the authors of these guidelines) and sobered, like them, by the «hype cycles and the techno - romance of emerging technologies» (Hicks et al., 2014, para. 5), social studies scholars today have a better informed and more theoretically sophisticated perspective concerning the affordances and challenges of digital technologies in social studies teacher preparation than once was the case.

Nor has it addressed health disparities, chronic absence, school discipline, the lack of social capital, and other challenges receiving growing attention today.

New figures published today show the enormity of the challenge facing the Coalition Government to improve social mobility through broadening access to top - ranked universities.

Seems like a simple statement, but the challenge is how do you find the time to keep up on social media given the number of options out there today.

In today's Publetariat Dispatch, author L.J. Sellers talks about the author's challenge, of using social media effectively while still allowing one's unique personality and perspectives to come through to readers.

In today's Publetariat Dispatch, author and Publetariat founder and Editor in Chief April L. Hamilton discusses the inspiration and technical challenges that went into creation of her new, very unusual «social media novel,» Overshare.

From Claudia Hart's critique of digital technology and the misogyny of gaming and special effects media to Carla Gannis's performance video where the artist competes with her virtual self; from Cynthia Lin's monumental drawings detailing minuscule portions of skin to Laura Splan's mixture of scientific and domestic in molecular garments and Joyce Yu - Jean Lee's challenge of conventional viewing perspectives; from Christopher Baker's examination on participative media to Victoria Vesna's collaborative project on social networking, identity ownership and the idea of a «virtual body» — the show guides the viewer through an array of captivating approaches that challenge not only current media ideologies but also conceptual paradigms underlying today's digital art, the question of disembodiment and post-humanism in particular.

Questions like this are at the heart of Aesthetica's Future Now Symposium, which will take a broad view of the state of today's arts ecosystem and the social and economic challenges it faces, bringing together the organisations and practitioners at the forefront of shaping art's response to a fast - changing world.

This curated exhibition of new work by our current 3D Design students will explore how today's most pressing challenges — such as social and economic inequalities, rampant material consumption, and environmental degradation — can become subjects for critical and poetic reflection in design objects.

He employs innovative solutions to the challenges of photographing life as it is, creating works that represent the social fabric of contemporary America and reflect broader experiences of being and seeing in the world today.

These environments serve as spaces for individuals of different social, economic, and cultural backgrounds to exchange ideas and experiences, spurring the development of new artistic disciplines and approaches.In today's New York City, artists working in this social practice find themselves increasingly challenged in their search for logistical and financial backing.

April 4 saw the awarding of the Pritzker Architecture Prize to Alejandro Aravena with the jury citing «Few have risen to the demands of practicing architecture as an artful endeavor, as well as meeting today's social and economic challenges.»

He continues to seek out innovative solutions to the challenges of photographing life as - it - is, creating works that both speak to the social fabric of contemporary America and reflect broader experiences of being and seeing in the world today.

The new «Words» section brings readers the sharpest ideas on photography: Charlotte Cotton asks if institutions are stifling innovation; Geoffrey Batchen teases out what social media means for photography; Arthur Ou confronts the challenges of photographic education; and Robin Kesley investigates the key questions driving new scholarship today.

How can we honor many different legacies and open up the doors to a broader history of grassroots arts organizing that can inform and challenge what we celebrate as social practice art today?

In a conversation with Artspace deputy editor Karen Rosenberg, O'Grady spoke about the social and logistical challenges of making Art Is..., its evolution on the web and in recent exhibitions, and the reasons it could not be performed today.

Today, we continue to reframe and to recombine as a means of discovering and employing new techniques like design thinking and crowd - sourcing to address complex social challenges.

Business leaders today are faced with the challenge of modest economic recovery while trying to manage the triple bottom line of financial, social, and environmental sustainability.

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) today announced the launch of a new social media challenge, the How #irev4NY Challenge, where New Yorkers can share via Twitter what they are doing to be more energy efficient or promote clean energy in support of Reforming the Energy Vision (REV), the State's strategy to build a clean, resilient and affordable energy system for all Newchallenge, the How #irev4NY Challenge, where New Yorkers can share via Twitter what they are doing to be more energy efficient or promote clean energy in support of Reforming the Energy Vision (REV), the State's strategy to build a clean, resilient and affordable energy system for all NewChallenge, where New Yorkers can share via Twitter what they are doing to be more energy efficient or promote clean energy in support of Reforming the Energy Vision (REV), the State's strategy to build a clean, resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers.

Rather we act with the conviction that near - term global population stabilization — such as the United Nation's low - variant population projection, which shows the end of population growth just 40 years from now — can be achieved through the vigorous pursuit and realization of a progressive human rights agenda and will be a powerful contributor to solving today's most pressing ecological and social challenges.

On today's podcast, I interview both Professors in order to explore some of the legal and social challenges raised by polygamy.

Today's challenges include diversifying sources and source types (e.g., mobile devices, social media), evolving custodian behavior (e.g., personal cloud storage, messaging apps), and ever - increasing expectations (e.g., duties of competence extended to technology, new sources treated like old ones by judges).

In a letter today from Democratic senator Ron Wyden, of Oregon, the social network has been challenged to explain how it handles disclosures to users, numerate how many such incidents have happened in the past decade, and explain why it took until now for Facebook to bar Cambridge Analytica altogether from its service.

With the expansion of digital technologies, and the free flow of information on social networks and other electronic means, HR groups today are challenged by how to best manage employees and former employees in a way that protects the interests of the employer.

If you've monitored the social network over the past nine months, you may have noticed a litany of complaints from both candidates and recruiters about the challenges of the recruitment process in today's job market.

One big challenge for many of today's businesses is the difficulty to navigate in a truly diverse workplace made up of people of different cultures, genders, ages and social groupings.