Frank Mayadas, program director for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which awards grants to colleges developing online learning, says many students learn better when they can review lessons and engage the material online, especially if they are intimidated by classroom participation.
But while one of them, the Roots, approached "Milkcow's Calf Blues" as a deconstructive exercise — and a high-wattage showcase for the guitarist and singer Kirk Douglas — the other, Living Colour, engaged the material on its own terms.
[Author's Note: As a participant in Singularity University's Graduate Studies Program this summer, I have decided to further engage the material by writing a letter to some of our speakers, drawing on the lectures as well as the personal context in which I heard them.
A journal club approach, in which students become teachers, has the added benefit of sharpening students' presentation skills, but the unstructured reading experience allows nonpresenters to engage the material passively and superficially.
Three to five teeth should engage the material you are cutting at all times.
This technique will force you to at least engage the material as opposed to mindlessly coloring the text like a coloring book.
By dividing the coupling region into several triangle blocks and engaging the transformation, material inhomogeneity of the coupler can be eliminated, and thus the device only requires homogeneous and anisotropic media.
While building on prior activities at ASTM and ISO, this work leverages existing product and testing standards with a view to engaging the engineering materials community.
If you just say 'I'm offended!', you are not engaging with the material.
