The noted reading scholar Jeanne Chall clearly distinguished learning to read (decoding) from reading to learn (understanding complex expository material).
The De Montfort University policy commission was established to engage students in new ways of learning, understanding and influencing politics.
These characteristics include the capacity for learning, understanding language, reasoning, solving problems, rendering expert diagnoses, and similar mental capabilities.
From his rejection of the distinction between fact and meaning flowed a system of ideas about experience, translation, learning, understanding and the notions of necessity and possibility.
Realistically, most of my time these days goes enthusiastically into research and writing and teaching around education, learning, understanding, and critical and creative thinking.
In a previous essay on this topic, I suggested five specific goals: understanding the language of the brain, understanding how neurons organize into circuits, understanding how the brain develops and learns, understanding how the brain determines which circuits to use in a given situation, and understanding the relations between neural circuitry and behavior.
Strong IT security is based on education – always learning, understanding, and preparing the environment for what comes next.
Listen to stories on neural correlates for music and speech learning, understanding the role of scars in spinal cord injury, deep-brain stimulation for depression, and more.
According to Pitler, "Applied effectively technology not only increases students' learning, understanding, and achievement, but also augments their motivation to learn, encourages collaborative learning, and develops critical thinking and problem-solving strategies" (Pitler [2006]).
