TEACHING MACHINES

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books on: Teaching Machines  - 2956 results

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The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr., and the Making of IBM
Book by Kevin Maney; John Wiley & Sons, 2003
Subjects: Businessmen--United States--Biography, Computer Industry--United States--History, International Business Machines Corporation--History, Watson, Arthur Kittredge--1919-1974, Watson, Thomas J.--1914-, Watson, Thomas John--1874-1956
...hed nod to the IBM managers but sit with customers. Hed probe the customers for complaints about IBM machines. Hed ask if the school was teaching them what they wanted to know and if not, Watson would later bark at the education managers. When...
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Machine Translation of Languages: Fourteen Essays
Book by William N. Locke, A. Donald Booth; Technology Press, 1955
Subjects: Machine Translating, Translating Machines
...first reactions to this new expansion of the empire of the machine furnish an illustration of the scepticism and sometimes rather...comparative semantics, 1 my experience in translation, and my teaching of foreign languages made me at first relegate MT to the realm...
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Local Applications of the Ecological Approach to Human-Machine Systems
Book by Peter Hancock, John Flach, Jeff Caird, Kim Vicente; L. Erlbaum Associates, 1995
Subjects: Human Engineering, Human-Machine Systems
...D., Sherwood R. D., Vye N. J., Rieser J. 1986 . "Teaching thinking and problem solving". American Psychologist, 41...doing". In R. I. Charles . E. A. Silver Ed. , "The teaching and assessing of mathematical problem solving" pp. 93-114...
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Logic Machines and Diagrams
Book by Martin Gardner; McGraw-Hill, 1958
Subjects: Logic Diagrams, Logic Machines
...only prove to infidels that Christianity is the one true faith, he asserts, but it will also give the reader who follows its teaching a stronger body and mind as well as all the moral virtues. Lull expresses the wish that his book be "disseminated throughout...
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Bullets and Bureaucrats: The Machine Gun and the United States Army, 1861-1916
Book by David A. Armstrong; Greenwood Press, 1982
Subjects: Machine Guns, United States--Army--Procurement--History--19th Century, United States--Army--Procurement--History--20th Century
...modified by the introduction of machine guns." 49 Parker believed that the machine gun would replace rather than...undermined the rationale for his machine--gun organization, Parkers...immense amount of really sound teaching in what he has said about...
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journal articles on: Teaching Machines  - 2593 results

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Thoughts on Teaching - the Mysterious Spinning Machine
Journal article by Bobby Ann Starnes; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 83, 2001
Subjects: Creative thinking--Study and teaching, Elementary schools--Curricula, Handicraft--Study and teaching
Thoughts on Teaching - The Mysterious Spinning Machine. by Bobby Ann Starnes...War? To use simple machines? To write a stronger...out. As for that machine, I know it served...for Collaborative Teaching and Learning and a...
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Teaching Engineering at the K-12 Level: Two Perspectives: There Must Be a More Direct Infusion of Appropriate Mathematics and Science with the Unique Technological Content (Tools, Machines, Materials, Processes) for an Effective Engineering Education Program to Exist
Journal article by Kenneth L. Smith, David Burghardt; The Technology Teacher, Vol. 66, 2007
Subjects: Burghardt, M. David, College faculty, Educators, Engineering--Study and teaching, Smith, Kenneth L.
Teaching Engineering at the K-12...Technological Content (Tools, Machines, Materials, Processes...the engineering community to teaching about engineering at the K...For instance, I have been teaching elementary and middle school...
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TECHNOLOGY: English Learners and Machine Translation, Part 2
Journal article by Royal Van Horn; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 85, 2004
Subjects: English language--Study and teaching, Machine translating--Analysis
TECHNOLOGY: English Learners and Machine Translation, Part 2. by Royal Van Horn IN THE JANUARY column, I discussed using Apples OS X version of Sherlock to translate...
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A Web-based Instructional Module for Teaching Middle School Students Engineering Design with Simple Machines
Journal article by Ann McKenna, Alice Agogino; Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 87, 1998
...represent the actual devices. Actual machine-shop photographs of pulleys, gears...Thus, hand drawings of each of the machines were included in the document; these...fulcrum, and load. I found that simple machines are put together to make more complex, larger machines. The main point of a small machine is to complete a simple task" Vicki...
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"Quarters Are What You Put into the Bubble Gum Machine": Numeracy Interactions during Parent-Child Play
Journal article by Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, Jackie Nelson, Charity Bumpass; Early Childhood Research & Practice, Vol. 9, 2007
Subjects: Education--Methods, Education--Parent participation, Home and school--Methods, Numbers--Study and teaching, Parent and child--Educational aspects, Parent participation (Education)--Methods, Parent-child relations--Educational aspects, Play--Educational aspects
...information through implicit teaching rather than direct, didactic...to put into the bubble gum machine. What are those? Child...a counting sequence on the machine but found the answer by counting...play session adding on the machine. In this dyad, the majority...usually put in bubble gum machines. Intersubjectivity, or shared...
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Teaching Machines How to Think Fuzzy
Magazine article by Diane K. Fisher; Children's Engineering and Technology, Vol. 9, September 2004
Subjects: Computer science, Fuzzy logic, Robots
Teaching Machines How to Think Fuzzy by Diane K...instead of like purely logical machines. To a simple machine, a statement is true or false...subway trains, elevators, washing machines, microwave ovens, and cars. Pretty...
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Teaching Machines to Recognize Objects
Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 125, June 1997
Subjects: Object recognition (Computers)--Innovations, Pattern recognition (Computers)--Innovations, Pick and place robots, Software
Teaching Machines to Recognize Objects. A packaging robot, working in a candy factory...to incorporate Angelopoulous breakthrough into a mechanical packaging machine. A mechanical device that interacts with its environment must have...
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Musical Variations: This Music School Opens an Issue on Leisure Because It Is Not a Teaching Machine but an Institution Which Promises to Enrich the Life of the City and All Its Citizens
Magazine article; The Architectural Review, Vol. 211, February 2002
Subjects: Architectural firms--Contracts, Conservatories of music--Buildings, facilities, etc., Daryl Jackson Robin Dyke Pty--Contracts, Sydney, Australia--Buildings, facilities, etc.
Musical Variations: This music school opens an issue on leisure because it is not a teaching machine but an institution which promises to enrich the life of the city and all its citizens I never tire of saying that Sydney is one...
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Japan's Jazz Machine
Magazine article by Merrill Leigh; Dance Magazine, Vol. 75, August 2001
Subjects: Dancers--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jazz dance--Conferences, meetings, seminars, etc., Masashi Action Machine--Management, Mashiro, Masashi--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sakamoto, Kumiko--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...error. The Masashi Action Machine is composed of both men and...director/choreographer. The Machines enthusiastic reception outside...Pfeifer arranged Masashi Action Machines 2000 and 2001 European tours...dancers of the Masashi Action Machine may indeed be part of the...Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago teaching classes in Giordano technique...
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The Living Machine at Darrow School
Magazine article by Lisa Riker; Green Teacher, Summer 2002
Subjects: Environmental aspects, Environmental education, Greenhouses, Living Machine, New York United States, Secondary level, Secondary schools, United States, Water treatment plants
...Ultimately we decided to build a Living Machine designed by the environmental engineering company Living Machines, Inc. based in Taos, New Mexico...South Burlington, Vermont, a Living Machine that processed 80,000 gallons of...foundations were impressed by the Living Machines educational component and outreach...trained as tour guides for the Living Machine and this has given our students another...
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newspaper articles on: Teaching Machines  - 645 results

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You're Crippling Kids by Teaching Welsh; Mystery Phone Caller Leaves Racist Rant on Answering Machine
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), October 15, 2005
Youre Crippling Kids by Teaching Welsh; Mystery Phone Caller Leaves Racist Rant on Answering Machine. Byline: By HYWEL TREWYN...crippling" their children by teaching Welsh as a first language...I believe. "Please stop teaching your children Welsh as a first...
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Vending Machines Are Just an 'Easy Target' in UK Fight against Obesity
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), May 19, 2010
Subjects: Obesity, Vending industry, Vending machines, Vending machines industry
...have totally healthy vending machines in terms of products, which...being the cause, the vending machine offers a solution. Vending machines provide choice and the items...which will cost the vending machine industry around pounds 15m...from 48%. Scotlands largest teaching union has recently thrown...
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NOBBY RAGES AGAINST THE PARTY MACHINES; Former Fireman to Stand in Coventry as an Independent at General Election
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), March 22, 2010
Subjects: Fire fighters--Political activity, Fire fighters--Political aspects, Firefighters--Political activity, Firefighters--Political aspects, Machinery--Political aspects, Magneto-electric machines--Political aspects
...NOBBY RAGES AGAINST THE PARTY MACHINES; Former Fireman to Stand...voters to "rage against the machine" in his quest to become an...rock band Rage Against The Machine, which campaigners backed...with this Rage against the Machine campaign." Nobby insists...visited the country as a fireman teaching first aid, and became a Christian...
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Chairs Are Anti-Lean Machines
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), May 28, 2009
Subjects: Machinery, Magneto-electric machines
Chairs Are Anti-Lean Machines. WHO? Tom Wates, age 35 WHAT? Dont Lean Back (dlb), school...managed to get investment for his idea and was able to leave his teaching job in 2007 to focus solely on building up dlb. ANY SETBACKS...
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Teaching in Kenya Leaves Welcome Baggage
Newspaper article by By Melissa Bachler; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 16, 2010
Subjects: Luggage--Study and teaching, Teachers--Study and teaching
Teaching in Kenya Leaves Welcome Baggage. by By...and, of course, when I go back to teaching, I will teach my students to only use...their notebooks because there are no such machines to do the work for them? And then I realize...
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encyclopedia articles on: Teaching Machines  - 4 results

 
 
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Teaching Machines
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TEACHING MACHINES see programmed instruction . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Programmed Instruction
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Computers and other types of teaching machines are often used to present the...independently. The first teaching machine was invented (1934) by Sydney...developed, so did the range of teaching machines and other programmed instruction...
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Audiovisual Education
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...computers, and television. The field of programmed instruction employs computers and other types of audiovisual teaching machines. Many local school systems in the United States have their own film and videocassette libraries that are often supplemented...
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Stroboscope
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...H. E. Edgerton starting in 1931. It has various uses in scientific research, teaching, and industry, where it is used to study stresses on parts of machines while in motion. H. Edgerton et al., Stopping Time: The Photographs of Harold...


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