His blog, terrytao.wordpress.com, is well written and spends little time watering down concepts for the public.
He succeeded brilliantly: 114 detailed maps in line with the text, hundreds of margin notes, a header on every page showing time and place, and 11 appendixes that illuminate military, economic and political concepts of the time.
In the current model, students have a fixed amount of time to learn new concepts.
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But what if we inverted these assumptions and gave each student the time needed to master concepts so that all students earned As?
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Adaptive learning also benefits instructors: By better preparing students for class, adaptive learning enables instructors to spend more time delving into advanced concepts and engaging students in high-level discussion.
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Besides evoking nostalgia, the pitch is an illustration of what Windows Phone's live tiles can do as well as a reflection of Microsoft coming full circle -- as it was two decades ago, Redmond is fighting for market attention at a time when new interface concepts are challenging its main business.
This winter Medtronic hired technology-transfer guru William McKeon as a full-time scout to scour sensor concepts worth investing in.
Conservative MSP John Scott said "fairtrade is one of those ideas, one of those concepts, whose time has truly come".
He added that it was important to balance analysis with chronology, as students needed to understand concepts such as time and the past.
Students spend up to two hours a day in a computer learning lab mastering basic math and reading skills through exercises and puzzles, freeing up teachers to spend their time on advanced skills and concepts.
By allowing students to focus their outside-of-class study time on the topics and concepts that are most challenging to them, adaptive learning has been shown to help students study more efficiently, develop greater proficiency and earn better grades.
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He'd offered them weekly updates, on the phone and in person, from the time the film's early concepts were being kicked around.
The ideas come from individuals with a limited perspective on the overall operations of a complex enterprise, and these people are submitting concepts in their spare time.
For companies creating new products, 3D printing can make it easier to design and test new concepts, and decrease the time to market.
Pupils should instead be given time to gain a secure understanding of mathematical concepts, it adds.
Concepts of justice have changed over time: what was once thought just is now sometimes viewed as unjust.
Folks should learn a bit about modern org leadership, including basic concepts like slack, 20% free time, systems engineering, complex adaptive systems, self-organizing systems, emergence, Lean-Agile, Kanban, Scrum, Lean Startup, Radical Management, etc.
My theory is many people understand financial basics and even more sophisticated financial concepts, but they just have a hard time applying them to their own financial lives.
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Some of our taxing concepts, though, are better suited to a time when we were less mobile.
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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.
To state the obvious, capital assets and consumer goods prices rise and fall all the time, and their fluctuations are essential for telling the markets what economic concepts should receive capital in abundance, and which ones should be starved of it.
Students also spend time in traditional classrooms where they work with a teacher who re-teaches concepts as needed and enhances and applies the material introduced online.
Mr Flannery is a respected biologist with plenty of published papers to his name, but the book feels dilettantish, with a dizzying array of concepts introduced, briefly discussed, then dispensed with before the reader has had time to digest them.
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Concepts discussed have included live uploading of fitness stats so performance can be monitored in real time, music that matches its BPM to heart rate and the one thing that is rarely discussed - video conferencing in a way that even Google Glasses will struggle to replicate.
Jones show just how difficult it is for judges to adapt 18th-century concepts of personal freedom to technology that allows everybody to track everybody else just about all of the time.
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