Sentences with phrase «traditional textbooks»

We can offer a variety of traditional textbook based curriculum and change it on the fly if it's not working.

These resources differ from traditional textbooks through their emphasis on explaining one's mathematical reasoning.

His classes blend online learning and social media with traditional textbooks to engage his students in unique ways.

At the middle and high school levels students must be willing to learn independently through traditional textbooks, project based, and online learning.

And they would, once and for all, make traditional textbooks a thing of the past.

If a printed copy is desired, the book is made available for printing at a fraction of traditional textbook costs.

The development of existing media forms has helped teachers to overcome some of these challenges, with the internet providing reference to traditional textbook teaching methods.

So, how can the stigma around traditional textbooks be reduced?

The game can also give new life to traditional textbooks if teachers want to pair it with a favorite that they're already using.

Many schools have stopped buying traditional textbooks, and digital curriculum is taking its place.

Whole group instruction is direct instruction using traditional textbooks or supplemental materials with minimal differentiation in either content or assessment.

A sneak peak revealed an Android tablet with a firm silicone jacket (designers say they have to expect pupils to be as careless with the tablets as they are with traditional textbooks).

A major middle - school math curriculum aligned to the Common Core State Standards today goes live for all to download, use, and adapt for free, in what will serve as a major test case as to whether open curriculum resources can truly compete with traditional textbook publishers.

eBooks generally have some common features that are not found in traditional textbooks.

We moved from a more traditional textbook approach to a curriculum balanced with readers» workshops.

When schools approach OER from this perspective, they often fail to recognize the value of innovative systems for deploying OER in a personalized way, such as Summit's PLP or Gooru's Navigator, and instead look for OER resources that work more like traditional textbooks, such as the Engage New York resources.

CLEARWATER Clearwater High School junior Bennie Niles (CQ), 17, of Clearwater, holds a Kindle wireless reading device which is replacing traditional textbooks next year.

Courses are delivered in a variety of formats including traditional textbooks, audio lectures, and video.

Unlike traditional textbooks or educational top - up programs with single functions, SAM blocks can be used for a broad range of learning techniques, creatively harnessing the power of education through the IoT and a gamified user experience.

While some people thought that eBooks would drive traditional textbooks out of universities, they are still the primary information resource for college classes.

«Imagine a school then, with no tests, no technology, and not even traditional textbooks, it's the Waldorf way».

Because I teach from personal experience rather than formal training, my teaching style is untraditional, creative and completely upside down compared to traditional textbook academia.

Although history obviously mixes with fiction, there's enough here left under - covered by traditional textbooks to make The Book of Negroes an intriguing window into the period.

The researchers developed a hands - on curriculum and professional development lessons teaching basic physics using the popular toys, then conducted a randomized controlled trial in about 60 fourth - grade classrooms in a California school district comparing student learning under the project - based and traditional textbook based instruction over three weeks.

The idea behind Future City is to provide an opportunity for seventh and eighth graders to explore the realities of engineering, planning, energy generation, and other related disciplines in a more hands - on way than traditional textbook study provides.

Many teachers love Teachers Pay Teachers while others frown on the resources because they prefer traditional textbook companies.

For example, Oppenheimer admires traditional textbook - based research projects and «leafing methodically through a solid book,» but dismisses Internet - based research projects as lacking intellectual content.

Only about 100 districts joined the initiative — out of the nation's more than 14,000 — and only a couple dozen said they met their pledge to replace one traditional textbook for one course with an OER alternative within one year.

Dan is not a fan of traditional textbooks which break a problem down into its solution steps and then makes them «part a, part b, part c» sub-questions.

To understand the contexts that surround the use of e-text and e-readers in K - 12 classrooms, it is important to comprehend the prominent role traditional textbooks have played within their curricula.

Alternate text types and student outcomes: An experiment comparing traditional textbooks and more epistemologically considerate texts, International Journal of Science Education, 38 (16), 2477 - 2499.

At the beginning of the year we prided ourselves as a school that was moving away from traditional textbooks in favor of teacher - created, digital alternatives.

Clearwater High School, in Clearwater, Florida, next year will replace traditional textbooks with e-readers.

They found that a traditional learning environment, including traditional textbooks, paper, technology and connectivity, costs an estimated $ 3,871 per student per year.

Technology and information - literacy skills were to be center stage in supporting these goals — at a minimum, we wanted to start moving away from the more traditional textbook - style instruction.

Read the white paper on the effectiveness of using VocabularySpellingCity as a supplement with traditional textbooks.

Research also indicates that students are more likely to retain the knowledge gained through this approach far more readily than through traditional textbook - centered learning.»

So they've turned the traditional textbook model of economic recovery inside out.

So I abandoned the traditional textbooks and, instead, introduced my students to the great nature writers.

At the September workshop, the teachers became the students as they read a research article under the guidance of Sally Hoskins, a professor at City College of New York who studies such educational methods and teaches biology courses that use primary literature in lieu of traditional textbooks.

But many physicists believe that this traditional textbook explanation is incomplete.

Sharon Lynch, a science education researcher at George Washington University, says e-books such as these may eventually become mainstream but adds that research needs to be done on whether or not they are actually better than traditional textbooks.

CIRCLE's research indicates that a new innovative style of civics education is emerging, in which students participate in some kind of democratic process rather than listen to a traditional textbook - based lecture on government.

For one thing, Jacobsen says, developing a DVD textbook is an enormous project, and not one the traditional textbook publishers seem to be pursuing.

Traditional textbooks and courseware are two - dimensional, and hands - on training with actual cars is irreversible and expensive,» said Paul Kellenberger, zSpace's president and CEO, in a statement, as reported by THE Journal.

California has adopted materials for teaching elementary and middle school science that observers said represent a significant change from traditional textbooks.