Anyone teaching a class would reasonably worry that students using Facebook were gossiping rather than learning useful information from their network of friends.
Rather than just learning a particular set of rules or a formula in a lecture, simulations let managers try things out.
The IBM Executive School became an unlearning rather than a learning experience.
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The emphasis has been on the tools rather than the learning.
Large classrooms based on age rather than true learning levels.
Rather than measure learning and move individual students along to new concepts as they master previous ones, it measures seat time and moves students along when they hit certain dates on a calendar.
Learning to live as a post-imperial state according to its means, rather than its ambitions, and learning to show more care for human life and dignity, are more important to Russia's renewal than winning a geopolitical race.
Most youngsters are excited and motivated, rather than fearful, about learning a new language.
When students are viewed as a rich resource for learning rather than limited students soar.
Education is an excellent tool, if used properly, but focus more on learning rather than getting good grades.
But until we can ensure that schools are places of learning, rather than places of danger, girls will be held back.
Make learning real rather than artificial memorization for a test.
"The purpose of such a forum would be to stimulate a public debate about the need for national standards that promote effective learning, rather than those which lead only to hot housing for tests and exams, " said Mr Moore.
But these students will be learning about, rather than enjoying, the world of luxury brands.
The school uses open "learning centres" rather than traditional classrooms and boasts a fitness suite with state-of-the-art sports equipment.
Studies, where they exist, are conducted with small groups, may not be peer-reviewed or published and are frequently carried out by learning-style proponents rather than neutral investigators.
Hackers try to build the best services over the long term by quickly releasing and learning from smaller iterations rather than trying to get everything right all at once.
New technologies such as Internet connectivity and radio instruction were also addressed at the Forum whereby the focus was on how they can be used more creatively to reduce rather than increase, disparities in access to quality learning.
Through intensive one-on-one exchanges with teachers and special tools like picture cards, Spike started learning how to speak up, rather than act out, when he was uncomfortable.
But Europe is learning to live with its haunted history rather than in it.
Therefore, we are taking the lead in learning all we can from this experience rather than watching from the sidelines.
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Functions are accessed by keystrokes rather than mouse-clicks and require users to invest time learning all the nooks and crannies, making it that much more difficult for them to replace it.
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Younger, pre-adolescent children can be sent to specialized schools where the focus is on learning life and basic education skills, rather than making them fit into regular schools where they have little in common with their peers.
The scheme for children from nursery age upwards will follow the model established on that scheme of having all the teachers and assistants in the schools involved learning the language to be taught, rather than bringing in specialist teachers.
Off to his right, beyond a wooden gate, dozens of stuffed animals and toy cars were stacked neatly on shelves lining the wall, held up as special rewards rather than put out every day as objects for play and learning.
Roosevelt raised everyone's spirits by his robust response on learning that his opponent was to be Lindbergh rather than a senator of the stature of Taft or a prosecutor as aggressive as Dewey or a bigtime lawyer as smooth and handsome as Willkie.
He remembers learning to play music in an immersive way, rather than in a formulaic sequence of lessons.
Children now begin learning English when they are six or seven, rather than at nine or ten as before.
Brightwell's six months in charge at Moss Rose ended in February, but rather than looking back with disappointment, he said it was a valuable learning experience.
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