Word: motorizing
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...Playing the animation on the computer in his office, he narrates about microtubials, the cytoskeleton, and motor proteins with the same awe and expertise as when he explains the artwork in the room. From analyzing the subtle techniques employed in Agnes Martin’s minimalist paintings to commenting on a wooden carving in the shape of two figures–“this artist was probably self-taught, probably a father’s gift to a son,”—Lue explains his passion for all types of “immediate personal expression...
...good living despite being a high school dropout, created a perfect storm for convincing everyone we needed to make changes," says Michael Flanagan, Michigan's superintendent of public instruction. For three months last fall a task force of state education officials, school superintendents, college deans and a Ford Motor Company executive pored over scholarly research on curriculum reform, borrowed ideas from private schools with strong college preparatory curricula and International Baccalaureate programs that infuse instruction with a global perspective. The panel also studied the education policies in countries such as Singapore, whose students routinely ace international proficiency exams...
...past six months, to access the newest releases, you have had to supply something perhaps even harder to replicate than your fingerprints: fine motor skills. Your typing speed and the pressure of your fingers on the computer keys are a rhythmic pattern that you repeat every time you type a given word, a pattern nearly impossible for someone else to duplicate...
...suburban Farmington High in Michigan, the engineering-technology department functions like an engineering firm, with teachers as project managers, a Ford Motor Co. engineer as a consultant and students working in teams. The principles of calculus, physics, chemistry and engineering are taught through activities that fill the hallways with a cacophony of nailing, sawing and chattering. The result: the kids learn to apply academic principles to the real world, think strategically and solve problems...
...their part, girls typically use language more deftly, understand complex concepts sooner, and manifest small motor control at an earlier stage than boys. During reading circle at the library, they might sketch or color; the boys, meanwhile, might wrestle. In early grades, the school environment is conducive to the orderly, attentive female members of the class, not to the physically active male members...