Sentences with phrase «who model technology»

Researchers have found that dispositions are influenced by teacher educators who model technology integration and risk - taking behaviors needed to adopt innovations (Kay, 2006; Vannatta & Fordham, 2004).

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«There's a need for innovative working models, and I think an entrepreneurial setting is a great place to set that up,» adds Flynn, who for the past four years has also been involved in Pipeline, a community for Midwestern entrepreneurs in technology and life sciences.

And then there are individuals who can think through new business models: that is, how we're going to use technology to create value, know who our customer is and what problem we're solving.

Liboiron uses her position as the head of the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research to advocate for open science hardware and lead «a small but growing movement for people who make technology and instruments open source,» something she describes as «very much against the model that runs many universities around the world.»

It probably won't bring jetpacks and hoverboards, but it will usher in other radical technologies, business models, customer experiences and even a new breed of entrepreneurs — a wave of so - called digital natives who think and act differently from every generation before them.

The tone is set by Benioff himself, who at Salesforce has pioneered a new business model (subscription software), a new technology model (storing a customer's applications online), and a new philanthropic model (which dictates giving away product, equity, and the time of its employees).

Not surprisingly, there are several notable standouts in our 2017 list, including Nehal Raj who leads TPG's multi-billion-dollar technology investing practice globally to Alex Soltani who embraced a bold approach to deal making when successfully starting his own firm in his late 20s to Dominic Ang who purpose - built a fund to dramatically accelerate portfolio company growth through his proven operating model.

Our team - oriented approach offers clients access to attorneys who are familiar with and understand their products, technology and business models.

Being present in such diverse industry, the blend of expertise from financial services and technology who could marry knowledge of both these worlds with high tech solution and a scalable business model was a must have.

He is the founding partner of Wine Folly who leads business strategy, internet technologies, and information modeling.

Modelling by the CSIRO has shown that 3 million Australians will need training or re-training in energy efficiency, green building technologies, sustainable energy and more sustainable agricultural systems to enable Australia to achieve the IPCC's recommended minimum reductions.4 This will obviously require HEIs to play a key role in developing graduates and professionals, particularly in engineering and design, who can contribute.

ROTHMANAnd I also just want to say that it is really great to have physicians like Dr. Downing, who understand the midwifery model, understand our scope of practice and where it intersects with obstetrics, so that when we do have something going on at a homebirth where we're not sure things are going well and we were starting to feel like maybe we need to access medical technology, that we have people like Dr. Downing that we can call and say, here's what's going on, we're coming in, and that we know that we and our clients will be received with compassion and respect and understanding of what has come before, so that we never have to hesitate to bring someone in knowing that they're gonna get that good care.

«Our applied technology teacher, Chuck Meyer, is the one who really had the skills to know how to make a model,» Geist said.

Michael Rebell, an attorney who won a landmark case requiring the state to fund school districts more equitably, and Randi Weingarten, president of a national teachers» union, wrote in appendices to the report that they agree with much of the group's findings, including recommendations for increased access to pre-kindergarten, technology and learning models that connect high school and college, and merit pay for teachers.

Now a computer scientist who works on weather - prediction models at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Price says science and technology were always topics around his house growing up.

Thinking that I might have a hot story to write about that would reveal something deeply wrong with current cosmological models, I first queried California Institute of Technology cosmologist Kip S. Thorne, who assured me that the discrepancy was merely a problem in the current estimates of the age of the universe and that it would resolve itself in time with more data and better dating techniques.

Large ripples, loops and arcs embedded in the starry outer envelope were first observed in the 1970s, and they remain an active field of study for contemporary astronomers, who use the latest telescope technology to observe the finer details of NGC 1316's unusual structure through a combination of imaging and modelling.

The model has thus learned to note when you fixate on text in a characteristic pattern which we could not have described in advance,» explains PhD Sigrid Klerke who has just defended her PhD thesis «Glimpsed — improving natural language processing with gaze data» on how gaze data can be used to improve technology such as machine translation and automatic text simplification.

«And because the SST is a smart technology, it can switch back and forth between those two functions as needed,» says Husain, who co-authored a paper on the new modeling work.

Meanwhile, a conference focused exclusively on women that took place in Kuwait just two weeks before — Women Leaders in Science, Technology, and Engineering +10 (WLSTE +10)-- drew accomplished women from all over the world, who came together to serve as role models and inspiration for the next generation of women in science.

«In the future, such efforts could allow us to much better understand human - microbiome interactions, model malnutrition disorders and inflammatory diseases of the gut, and perform personalized drug testing,» said co-first author Alessio Tovaglieri, a Graduate Student at the Department of Health Science and Technology at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, who performs his thesis work on Ingber's team.

At Siemens Corporate Technology, mathematicians (who also constitute about 8 % of degree holders) tackle risk through computer modelling, according to Albert Gilg, Competence Center department head at Siemens in Munich.

Alan Guth, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who pioneered the concept of inflation, says the analysis is convincing, but not so convincing that he's ready to abandon the possibility that BICEP2's data holds a signal in support of more obscure models of inflation.

Hans Klein, who researches online democracy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, notes that the online election model works in the high - profile global selection of board members for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the organization that controls web domain names.

«For her to become president of NAS at this time, when there is a lot of talk about getting more women and minorities into STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields, here is an exemplary role model to those who might see themselves in those realms,» McEntee said.

In the spring 2017 issue, meet the people who work round the clock at Argonne's giant synchrotron, using X-rays to tease out the secrets of everything from volcanic glass to batteries to bacterial machinery — as well as engineers who travel the world to make reactors safer, physicists who collect model ships, and scientists inventing materials for the next technology breakthroughs.

Our goal is to help scientists who want to use this technology for gene editing by summarizing current advances on many technical aspects, from the RNA guide optimized design to the genotyping analysis and the validation of the newly generated models.

«The reality is, until you've collected the information, you can't really make good models of how things work,» says nanomaterials scientist Paul Alivisatos, a nanomaterials scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in developing nanoscale technologies.

«New therapies for ALS are urgently needed — and our creation of human models using iPS cell technology will hopefully deepen our understanding of how the disease develops — and lead to relevant therapies for patients,» said Senior Investigator Steve Finkbeiner, MD, PhD, who leads ALS research at Gladstone.

The conference program brings together leaders in technology who leverage the virtual experiences provided by VR and AR platforms to build scalable business models and enhance creative opportunities in entertainment, marketing & advertising, media, education, healthcare, and more.

Other opponents appear to include two dozen Internet and technology companies, who last month sent the lawmakers a letter calling the legislation «an ill - advised approach» that also «discriminates against internet business models by applying only to dating services that operate primarily online.»

«Technology is such a pervasive element of our society, you have to find a way to integrate it into business models,» says Gaudreault, who is also co-owner of Pitbull Events, a premier gay entertainment company.

Toronto About Blog The Canada BIM Council serves as Canada's business voice for the entire construction industry, education community and owners who are working collectively with Building Information Modeling (BIM) technologies and practices.

Still, most of the figures highlighted here are relatively unknown pre-emancipation role models who excelled in a variety of professions ranging from writing to politics to the military to healthcare to business to the arts to science and technology.

That's when Diane Sherman, who teaches autistic children, heard Pepperberg, a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's MIT Media Lab, describe how she'd trained Alex: First, the bird watches a trainer give instructions to another person, who models correct and incorrect behavior; then Alex gets a chance to mimic the behavior.

Five student groups shared their presentations with ISTE's Leadership Symposium, which is made up of more than 150 educators from across the country who strive to develop and model the effective use of technology in education in their schools, school districts, and states.

Michael McDowell, who trains teachers on managing group dynamics through the New Technology Foundation, a ten - year - old nonprofit organization that helps communities replicate the New Tech model nationwide, says teamwork is one of the greatest challenges project - learning teachers face.

SMB: We should take a page from the successful, ongoing efforts that address the lingering lag in girls» and women's participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields and leadership positions: 1) mentoring and role - modeling programs that involve more men in schools, particularly men who hold other than traditionally male jobs so that students see men in a variety of careers; 2) a national fathers» reading campaign to engage more fathers in reading to their children; and 3) increased funding for innovative programs that engage students in literacy activities in and out of school.

This paper, written for the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, offers policymakers and philanthropic leaders a set of recommendations to capitalize on the potential of technology to serve students: expand broadband access to schools lacking it, create an elite corps of proven teachers who would be made available to students across the state, and provide districts and schools with the flexibility to develop new models of staffing and technology and to achieve the most strategic combination of personnel, facilities, and technology.

Jeff Cummings, who is responsible for Technology - Enabled Learning and Teaching at the board, explains that he made use of available technology funding to help finance the initiative, and the scalable training model that they put iTechnology - Enabled Learning and Teaching at the board, explains that he made use of available technology funding to help finance the initiative, and the scalable training model that they put itechnology funding to help finance the initiative, and the scalable training model that they put into place.

Importantly, some teachers talked about a desire to model their use of technology based on colleagues who created student - centered, technology - based projects in their social studies classrooms.

Preparing teachers to use digital technologies requires teacher educators to pay attention to the necessity of educating all children for citizenship, as opposed to teaching only those children who fit within the mini-me model that many preservice teachers carry with them into their first teaching assignment.

Now consider an example of a preservice teacher in her final semester of study who has worked with assistive technology as part of the TPACK model.

Michaels and McDermott (2003) pointed out that teacher education programs must provide preservice teachers with an opportunity to observe classroom teachers and other school personnel who model appropriate assistive technology use in inclusive classroom settings.

In contrast, those teacher preparation programs embedding hands - on technology models in methods courses and student teaching requirements are more likely to produce teachers who use technology in their own practice (Vannatta, 2000).

Certainly, enhanced integration of technology in K - 12 classroom instruction depends on teacher educators who successfully model the use of technology in teacher education courses.

The Alliance brought together experts — educators and leaders who successfully integrated technology into their instructional models — to develop a comprehensive, integrated model for digital transformation at the district and school levels, also known as the FRS framework.

The first step in accomplishing this task is determining how preservice teachers» perceptions of using technology in teaching are affected by teaching methods courses taught by faculty who are effective models for technology integration.

In following the recommendations to infuse technology into its content teaching methods courses by providing faculty models for effective technology integration (Handler & Marshall, 1992; ISTE, 1999; NCATE, 1997; PCAST, 1997; U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, 1995; Wetzel, 1993; Willis & Mehlinger, 1996), the Education School is well on its way to producing teachers who are effective at integrating technology into specifitechnology into its content teaching methods courses by providing faculty models for effective technology integration (Handler & Marshall, 1992; ISTE, 1999; NCATE, 1997; PCAST, 1997; U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, 1995; Wetzel, 1993; Willis & Mehlinger, 1996), the Education School is well on its way to producing teachers who are effective at integrating technology into specifitechnology integration (Handler & Marshall, 1992; ISTE, 1999; NCATE, 1997; PCAST, 1997; U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, 1995; Wetzel, 1993; Willis & Mehlinger, 1996), the Education School is well on its way to producing teachers who are effective at integrating technology into specifiTechnology Assessment, 1995; Wetzel, 1993; Willis & Mehlinger, 1996), the Education School is well on its way to producing teachers who are effective at integrating technology into specifitechnology into specific content.

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