Sentences with phrase «used as an educational tool»

This toy can be use as an educational tool to teach the little ones about the characters he create or be use as role models.

The software will be provided free for other researchers to use and will be used as an educational tool for undergraduate students at Georgia Tech.

We want them to be able to use their own devices so they can be familiar on how to use them as an educational tool.»

This card can be used as an educational tool for students, as well as for adults looking to repair their credit due to past financial problems.

The information inside the infographic is 100 % accurate and up to date (as of 2017)-- so it can be used as an educational tool and not just something fun to look at.

It can also be used as an educational tool to see where your strengths and weakness are.

It can be used as an educational tool by parents, teachers, therapists and other professionals to promote healthy ways to deal with fear.

It also an excellent resource for health professionals to be used as an educational tool.

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Also, due to the capability of using indicators, customized charts as well as educational tools it has been ranked as the world's most popular broker.

We bring all the educational tools, videos etc. necessary to make it a hands on class in your home (as well as using whatever items you may have already assembled.)

They observe this correlation firsthand as they cultivate the school garden using materials they find in their everyday classroom lives, and in return, the garden provides educational tools, such as samples for botany classes and plants that can be made into natural dyes for fiber arts projects.

We need parents to use our menus and website as an educational tool to help guide and teach their children about healthy, nutritional choices.

Saving the World, One Video Game at a Time — NY Times piece on using video games as educational and advocacy tools Publishers Mull Online Networking — Media Week article on magazines and social networking / social media South Dakota politics gets hip with online forums — Talks about...

You may just want people to see the piece as an educational tool, but more likely you're also using it to build your email list / Facebook following or to generate an action («Write the Bilbo Gear and Sprockets company and demand that they no longer use parts made from itinerant llamas»).

Standardized tests should be used as diagnostic tools to move children forward in their educational journey and not as a benchmark to stigmatize students and teachers.

The most successful tool your successful nations used in the capture of the resources of the world was their religion, the gun powder as against swords of the world and an educational system based on learning only what they considered as the truth.

Chess in the Schools has been teaching and empowering more than a half - million students in the most underserved communities throughout New York City, since 1986, helping students learn to use chess as an educational tool to promote learning and critical thinking.

Legislator Baskin is dedicated to using creative learning methods as a platform for equipping under - served youth with the tools they need to fully take advantage of the educational opportunities available to them.

Students learn to use chess as an educational tool to promote learning and critical thinking.

This best chicken egg incubator is good for use in the home, as an educational tool, or even for a breeder who needs a better way to hatch eggs.

«A possible next steps could be to create an educational tool that could be used as a quick way for primary care providers to help evaluate their patient,» Scandinaro said, «and to help them decide if it's normal irritability or something that requires them to see a specialist.»

The SNMMI Learning Center provides members with a wide array of educational content delivered in a variety of modalities, as well as the latest tools to keep track of all of their continuing education activities in one convenient and easy - to - use location.

I have used Nutrition Facts as an educational tool with my clients and their MDs with some success.

It should strictly be used to kickstart weight loss efforts and as an educational tool... teaching you what to eat, how to eat, and how different foods affect your body.

From this starting point, there exist different approaches to developing this global awareness, such as: 1) curriculum design which embraces themes of awareness, empathy and a more holistic educational approach; 2) the use of technology that fosters connections between classrooms and destinations around the world; 3) social action projects that use service - based learning to create a deeper awareness of global issues; and 4) extra-curricular projects that offer a variety of tools to promote global citizenship.

In relation to this, Brandon Alcorn, project manager for global initiatives at Penn, notes that students are «using it as a job - training tool rather than an educational tool,» which clearly illustrates their dominant purpose.

Using digital games as an educational technology tool to drill - and - kill content and skills can be akin to using only phonics books to teach reaUsing digital games as an educational technology tool to drill - and - kill content and skills can be akin to using only phonics books to teach reausing only phonics books to teach reading.

In Making school meaningful for Indigenous learners Ailsa MacFie uses a body of research, plus her own experiences as a teacher in a high Aboriginal population boarding school in the Northern Territory, to provide practical tools for teachers wanting to improve educational outcomes for Indigenous students.

Where such tools are adopted, the balancing act must always be about the holistic improvement of educational provision and not using the data produced as the proverbial stick to beat teaching staff with.

Koretz focuses his research primarily on educational assessment and testing, particularly when it is used as a tool of education policy.

Through the Outreach strand, the larger focus of the initiative, researchers develop and support informative and interactive educational experiences which vary in length and time commitment involved as well as those that are designed to meet the needs of different audiences with the ISV network — those new to PZ ideas, those familiar with some PZ frameworks who want to extend their learning to other frameworks and tools, and those with a long history of using certain frameworks who want to deepen and push their practice in new ways.

Although, the majority of the educational blogs have reflective content, probably because of the need to externalize and diffuse ideas, thoughts and concerns, and not under the intention to use blogs as teaching tools.

Even if the primary goal is knowledge retention rather than boosting sales, there are marketing techniques that can be used as powerful online educational tools.

She used research to show the power of using mobile devices as an educational tool.

IMS or SCORM (educational standards used to publish interactive contents in platforms or eLearning tools as Moodle or any other OER (Open Educational Resources) repositories)

That feature is what lost the support of longtime social - justice warrior (and founder of the pro school choice Black Alliance for Educational Options) Howard Fuller, who in July shocked many allies by stating his opposition to the Nevada plan: «Parental choice should be used principally as a tool to empower communities that face systemic barriers to greater educational and economic opportunities... I could never approve of a plan that would give those with existing advantages even greater means to leverage the limited number of private school options, to the detriment of low - income families.»

Previous urban investigations have often resulted in art exhibits and documentaries — some have been shown at New York City's Museum of Modern Art and at national conferences, such as the National Conference for Media Reform, and community organizations regularly use others as educational tools.

Think of a wiki as an educational tool that can be used simultaneously by the whole class.

Within a few short weeks enough money had been raised to buy three laptops that would be used by the volunteers as an educational tool for children in the care of Dream Africa Care Foundation.

Over three in five teachers use educational technology every day, and two in five are using - or would like to use - social media as a learning tool as well.

While positive claims have been made about using games as educational tools, some question its viability as well.

Teachers use educational tools such as Edmodo, Classflow, and Remind to communicate assignments to students and parents.

As an educational presenter, she focuses on positive behavior supports using the following tools:

Students are going to use social media regardless, so teachers might as well take advantage of this and turn social media into an engaging educational tool.

«As educational technologies emerge and evolve, it is essential to use a critical eye toward the specific tool affordances when making decisions about instructional practice.»

As individuals who are served by the educational system, I wonder how more room could be give to students to become partners in their own education experience by providing feedback and developing agency in the tools used by their educators.

This paper examines the use of digital stories as a pedagogical tool in two undergraduate educational psychology classes.

The New ELL Toolkit — Potentially a Great Resource... but Beware of Misuse The U.S. Department of Education recently released a new, comprehensive English Learner Toolkit, which is a compilation of the latest research findings, current policy and resources or «tools,» such as sample surveys and assessments, for districts and schools to use in addressing the educational needs of their English learners.

Given the growing body of evidence suggesting their educational uses, it is increasingly difficult to justify dismissing social media tools as merely vain or vapid.

If used properly, a PDL can serve as an invaluable resource on educational topics, as well as a tool to help educators learn independently and help each other and parents understand classroom strategies.