For our first classroom assignment, we're to conduct a conversation with the person next to us, and then introduce him or her to the group.
The Senkaku islands, which are controlled by Japan but claimed by China, will be described for the first time in classrooms as Japanese territory.
Embarrassing for her mum, perhaps, but fascinating for Dr Paul Howard-Jones and Dr Sam Wass, the two scientists observing 10 children as they met for the first time, in a classroom rigged with cameras and wired for sound.
More than 400,000 children whose schools were destroyed in the earthquake in the western state of Gujarat in January are returning to the classroom for the first time.
Kate Geiger, who lost her job at General Motors in 2008, said she would never forget the feeling of sitting in a college classroom for the first time after 24 years on the factory floor.
The veteran of the group is 32, with a master's degree in teaching English as a second language, the baby a 1999 Yale graduate facing the front of a classroom for the first time.
As a fresh batch of newly qualified teachers (NQTs) head into the classroom for the first time this autumn they will be full of ideas, enthusiasm and anxiety: how will their first class react to them?
Those heading into the classroom for the first time have a lot to get to grips with, from the critical (handling parents) to the functional (figuring out how the coffee machine works).
According to this line of research, when students enter the physics classroom for the first time, they have already built naïve conceptions of scientific phenomena to explain everyday experiences.
The ARS implementation across the two platforms (i.e., stand-alone remote and phone-based application) seemed to go really well for the first 2 weeks of class; classroom observations indicated the majority of students attending class were participating.
