Not exact matches
Deanne Bell is an engineer, television host, and the founder of FutureEngineers.org, a
platform that hosts national invention
challenges for
students.
Evangelical state legislators and school board members mounted similar efforts this year in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Alabama, and the Texas Republican Party
platform opposes «the teaching of... critical thinking skills and similar programs that... have the purpose of
challenging the
student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.»
Transmedia storytelling — telling a single story across multiple media
platforms — as a means to help
students engage with
challenging cultural issues of civic responsibility, diversity, and social justice can be an important tool in the classroom, especially in an age where
students are finding it increasingly difficult to see over the wall between their school lives and their «real» lives.
Everyone likes to have a say in what they learn and how... our big
challenge was to create a learning
platform that offered enough curricular options to empower
students with choice.»
The
platform was selected as one of five winners in the U.S. Department of Education's EdSim
Challenge for «immersive simulations that will prepare
students for the globally competitive workforce of the 21st century.»
Transmedia storytelling — telling a single story across multiple media
platforms — as a means to help
students engage with
challenging cultural issues of civic responsibility, diversity, and social justice can be an important tool in the...
Students with vestibular
challenges have trouble balancing, so they use a
platform swing that helps improve this sense.
Nevertheless, the implementation of these
platforms poses
challenges — particularly when it comes to accepting payment from
students or parents for using the services.
Instead of focusing on what we expect of our
students upon graduation, the discussion of standards has become complicated by political agendas, teacher evaluations, school rankings, the
challenges of computerized test
platforms, and a myriad of topics that distract from the original goal, which is to establish benchmarks for
student learning.
«Cambridge provides a global
platform in which
students are
challenged to go deeper into the content, as the program emphasizes problem solving and analysis as well as effective communication.
While hundreds of online
platforms promise to improve
student - led skill practice, few digital tools successfully tackle the
challenges of teacher - led lessons.
Throughout the 3 PoW weeks, elementary
students respond to a
challenge problem via a virtual learning
platform where they are paired with a mentor (prospective teacher).
BloomBoard was founded in 2010 by Jason Lange and Eric Dunn when they took on the
challenge of developing a teacher coaching
platform that would use technology to take the principles of differentiated instruction for
students ~ and apply those principles ~ to teacher development and support.
High school
students are invited to create and exhibit software applications («apps») for mobile phones, tablets, or other computing devices on a
platform of their choice as part of the House
Student App
Challenge.
In Texas, for example, the Republican Party approved a
platform opposing the teaching of critical thinking skills, saying it's behavior modification with «the purpose of
challenging the
student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.»