Sentences with phrase «valued as a tool for learning»

«At my school,» Barton said, «technology is valued as a tool for learning.

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Parents who earlier experienced their child as difficult received tools for solving everyday problems and learnt to value their child in a new way.

As a mark of the expected value of OER, a number of major philanthropic organizations, including the Hewlett Foundation, Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC), and the CK - 12 Foundation, are investing in the creation and development of OER content and OER curation tools; and the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has a project, called the Learning Registry, which helps make OER content easier for teachers to find.

As the consumption - based model of technology integration transitions to a participatory approach and technology transitions from a tool for accessing information to a tool to (a) support student authoring and creativity, (b) facilitate collaboration, communication, and social learning, (c) allow for more efficient organization and accumulation of resources, (d) provide venues for student voices through publication and sharing, and (e) support student immersion in learning environments, educators also transition from «extending learning beyond what could be done without technology» (Mason et al., 2000) to «use technologies to promote effective student learning» (Hicks et al., 2014) In the revisioning of the first principle, the authors did a commendable job of affording increased value to range of tools, methods, content, abilities, and varied contexts of social studies classrooms.

These serve not only as useful tools for teachers to quickly identify comprehension gaps but can also be given to students to showcase the value of learning from mistakes, as well as help begin a conversation around the content.

To help our colleagues «learn the ropes,» we've also begun offering workshops for lawyers interested in learning how to maximize the value of LinkedIn as a networking tool.

If there's a lesson to be learned for legal bloggers from this month's analysis, it would be this: While we think of a blog as an external communications tool, it has implicit internal communications value as well.