Word: constructions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...knowledge that they can deploy, as opposed to just passing a test.'' It is no coincidence that Dalton began its plunge into technology with the Archaeotype program. Excavation is an apt metaphor for the kind of ``constructivist learning'' promoted at the school: students must actively dig up information, then construct their own understanding from raw, observable facts. What the technology does is extend experience so that many more observations are possible. ``It shifts education from adults giving answers to students seeking answers,'' says headmaster Gardner Dunnan. The underlying premise: we all understand and remember what we have discovered for ourselves...
...information highway. They range from giants like Intel, Microsoft, AT&T and IBM to countless smaller companies, some of which may emerge as tomorrow's giants. Dozens of suppliers stand to rake in billions of dollars over the next five years as the telephone and cable companies construct their systems...
...American Melting Pot has fallen on hard times. It was first rejected in the late 1960s by Marxists and relativists from the Left who claimed the idea of an American culture was some ethnocentric construct designed to preserve the power of the white majority and annihilate the heritage and values of non-white groups...
...newspapers? They have often been dumped in landfills because there wasn't enough demand for recyclables. Now there is, and the reusable trash is surging in value. The price of old newspaper increased more than 400% in the U.S. in the past year. And companies are scrambling to construct trash-reprocessing plants -- a sure sign that recycling is here to stay...
...fact that we find across cultures and across time a preponderance within societies of women who nurture rather than dominate suggests that such a tendency is more than a social construct. The caring female is a natural phenomenon...