Sentences with phrase «with big ideas of»

Debate, discussion, and engagement with the big ideas of social studies require the selection and effective use of content - rich learning material.

✴ Well designed digital content based social studies courses allow students to engage actively with the big ideas of history, geography, culture, and civics through the use of interactive visual media that incorporate primary and secondary source documents and media that «bring the powerful ideas of social studies to life.»

Authored by science educator Wynne Harlen, Working with Big Ideas of Science Education provides a response to the concerns that the science curriculum in many countries is overloaded, over-detailed, over assessed and too distant from the inquiry - based approach that the subject requires.

Earlier this year, the Science Education Programme published a report entitled Working with Big Ideas of Science Education which looked at growing concerns with the science curriculum.

Jon: This book, and the whole series, completely excites me with the big idea of inventing a new kind of narrative for kids — equal parts hardcore information, action narrative and humor.

Not exact matches

Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya speaks with CNBC's Kelly Evans at the Sohn Conference about Box being his best investment idea for the year, as well as the growth of big data and consumers» privacy rights.

In the wake of a summer filled with headlines about NSA privacy violations, alarm bells are ringing loudly at the idea of «big brother» insurance providers wanting more information about what customers do when they're behind the wheel.

Napster co-founder Sean Parker's proposal to sell first - run movies to home viewers at $ 50 a pop has stirred up various corners of Hollywood, with big movie studios and theater chains up in arms over the Screening Room idea while multiple major filmmakers have landed on opposing sides of the argument.

I'm a big Apple Watch fan, and it is more capable — you can't respond to texts from the Fitbit Versa, or load it with apps — but that might not matter to you if you're into the idea of a smartwatch for its fitness features.

Part of what needs to happen to change that statistic is that we need more women with big ideas going after it, and the other part of it is the right funding structure to help them get there.

Instead, he assembled a team of tech - savvy individuals and tasked them with thinking up big ideas, which are then developed into products and eventually spun out as separate businesses.

Y Combinator itself has put out a list of types of startups it would like to see apply to the program (many of them stunningly ambitious), my Inc.com colleague Bill Murphy, Jr. has even uncovered a truly monster list of 1,001 business ideas (though many of them, such as a toothbrush holder with actually big enough holes, are probably not going to make you billions), and I've personally rounded up even smaller business ideas that you can start without so much as a spare $ 100 in the bank.

He also claimed that with «things like Facebook and Google and others, we find that return on investment of the advertising when properly designed, when the big idea is there, can be much more efficient.»

Because disruptions are nothing new: We've seen dozens of them in recent years: A young entrepreneur has a big idea, shakes things up and emerges with a multi-billion dollar business that leaves people gaping, imitating, disbelieving and envying, all amid a dizzying swirl of emotions.

I'll follow through with commitments, and now and then I'll synthesize ideas to make bigger sense of them.

The odds of hitting it big with your very first idea is extremely rare.

Robert Epner, Founder and CEO of ChiefofStaff.com, has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies on strategy execution and suggests that you try the following the next time you have a big idea:

I'm not sure I entirely agree with the sentiment, but I do believe one of the greatest risks you can take with a Big Idea is to keep mulling it over and tinkering with it ad nauseam because you're fretful that it's not yet perfect.

While the ideas of a free - agent nation and personal brand building have been with us for a couple of decades, DIY - career building has gotten a big push from the digital (and old - fashioned sharing) infrastructure that fosters this independence.

Eventually, the MDA presented Lewis with the idea of staging a bigger show, and in 1966 the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon debuted, launching a legendary 45 - year run that has raised billions of dollars for MD services and research.

Bogusky is one of the biggest players in the advertising industry, and he's got lots of ideas he likes to share with people — especially about environmentalism, and what people are doing to innovate in the space.

But a Wharton - professor - turned - mortgage - consultant is now putting a more upbeat spin on that idea: If you play your cards right, your house could produce a bigger retirement income than a lot of other investment alternatives, with a federal guarantee behind it, to boot.

The notion of a startup founder with student - loan debt evokes the clichéd image of a Silicon Valley millennial fresh out of college and living in a shared apartment, playing video games and feverishly pitching angel investors to fund his (or her) next «big idea» — from 3D printing to the next Facebook.

In partnership with Scribd, Grant recently pulled together a short list of must - read titles for business people that offer truly big ideas in an easy - to - digest package.

«The biggest mistake I see these days is thinking that a business idea will automatically turn into a viable business model,» says Terri Lonier, president and founder of Working Solo, a New Paltz, New York - based business strategy consultancy, and author of Working Solo: The Real Guide to Freedom and Financial Success with Your Own Business.

Local tech entrepreneurs have pitched their ideas to representatives from the Big Pitch competition in Leederville today, with the pick of the crop to go into the national finals with a chance to win $ 5 million to fund their idea.

While the book is stuffed with helpful big picture observations, it doesn't offer much in the way of specific on - the - ground ideas — though Keen does call for reforms to data privacy and gig economy labor laws, and for a serious discussion of a universal basic income.

Founders Fund had a manifesto that once said, «We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters,» a ding at Twitter that expressed his disappointment with what he considered a lack of big ideas from startups.

The big idea is something almost anyone with a cell phone can understand: The need to break the nonstop addiction of looking at your phone.

While credit risk might seem like a bad idea with the U.S. economy still weak and the rest of the world looking equally uncertain, high - yield bonds do offer bigger returns than government and investment - grade bonds.

Even the most popular explainer in recent years of the financial crisis — «The Big Short» — had to employ non sequiturs with celebrities explaining ideas like mortgage - backed securities and credit default swaps to communicate how it happened.

Kohl's is not alone in thinking smaller is bigger: Target (tgt) has had tremendous success with that format, Macy's (m) has shrunk some of its key stores, and even Nordstrom (jwn) is giving the idea a go with its no - merchandise Nordstrom Local store in Los Angeles that it may bring to new markets.

Simply put, the Rule of One is this: whenever you find yourself believing or acting as though any «one» thing, person, idea, time, formula, or form of value is all - important, it's the surest sign that you are missing the bigger picture and, along with it, the threat or opportunity at your doorstep.

When I came back, I was still focused on this idea of communications and partnering with corporations on big societal issues.

The Michael Dells and Richard Bransons of the world — very young people with very big ideas — started to make entrepreneurship cool (not to mention, finding fame and millions in the process).

They're doing it with a clear, narrow sense of purpose, a sublime customer experience, and the kind of coherence that seems all but impossible when a company gets old and big, and its founding idea lost to time and well - intended meddling.

If we can take a page out of my grandfather's book and change the way we recruit entrepreneurs, then we can create an environment where everyone with the potential to create the next big idea will have what they need to succeed.

Not every startup has to launch with a massive leap forward; in fact, plenty of great ideas start with that very one thing that is just a «micro step» towards that big vision.

Phase III funding, the round where ideas are validated with up to $ 10 million in funding, is the very center of the valley of death, because it's the biggest test for early - stage companies.

Everyone and their neighbor has seen The Social Network or knows of a horror story about a startup idea being co-opted by a venture capitalist or a big somebody with deeper pockets.

«I'm with BigID and our big idea is that privacy matters,» said Dimitri Sirota, CEO and cofounder of the firm, taking the stage.

With the rise of crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, crowdsourcing has become an increasingly popular form of financing for individuals who are short on cash, but have big ideas that are going to revolutionize an industry.

Now, besides competition with established and upstart retailers alike, perhaps the biggest challenge for the startup is to convince consumers that the idea of «interchangeable» technology is actually workable.

I'm a big believer that you have to spend a lot of time with an idea.

During a recent interview with TVOntario's Steve Paikin, Brian Mulroney bemoaned the «dearth» of big ideas in politics these days.

The challenge with innovation, she says, is that a lot of businesses will brainstorm big ideas but they don't commit the time or the people to make it happen.

Big Idea: Oldest son of Rupert Murdoch has returned to his father's empire as non-executive co-chairman of News Corp. and 20th Century Fox after quitting his executive positions in the pre-split News Corp. in 2005 — and relinquishing his status as heir presumptive — to build his own radio and TV group, Nova, with James Packer, scion of another Australian media dynasty.

A simple idea with a NSFW name, the concept is to gather members of your entrepreneurial community together regularly to share your biggest screwups and the wisdom (painfully) gained from them.

Here's some of my conversation with von Tobel, whose Big Idea for 2016 is for companies to start embrace the democratization of luxury products:

But Apple should consider fast - tracking this idea, because it could address one of the biggest consumer complaints facing the company right now: an inconsistent and unreliable MacBook keyboard that users say easily breaks when faced with crumbs or other particles.