Creating Understanding

Author : Donald K. Smith
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Communication
ISBN : 9780310531210

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This book is built on twenty-three propositions about communication, propositions that, when taken together, encompass fundamental truths about human communication from a Christian perspective. Creating Understanding puts communications media into proper perspective. It makes meaning and understanding the focus of the effort of communication. It is committed to having the purposes of communication determine the means to be employed. This book is a foundation on which the enterprise of Christian ministry can be built or refined. It provides perspective, constantly, on the ways the cultural landscape is informing and affecting the communication process.

Author : Donald K Smith
Publisher : Books on Creating Understanding
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0976518694

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Creating Understanding, 2nd Edition by Donald K Smith Pdf

This is not a book about techniques. It is a book about fundamentals, especially the fundamental responsibility given by God to create understanding of the Almighty God in every place, culture, and within every child, woman and man. His primary purpose in this age is repeatedly shown in His Word and actions among and for people - all people. We translate His Word into every language and culture only by obedient action, guided by His principles (laws, promises, commands, ways) shown in His life and words. Creating Understanding seeks to summarize those principles, guiding His children to fulfill His desire for all to know Him - His salvation and His purpose for each one to live in peace, joy, and to praise Him.

Author : Donald K. Smith
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310531217

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Creating Understanding by Donald K. Smith Pdf

This book is built on twenty-three propositions about communication, propositions that, when taken together, encompass fundamental truths about human communication from a Christian perspective. Creating Understanding puts communications media into proper perspective. It makes meaning and understanding the focus of the effort of communication. It is committed to having the purposes of communication determine the means to be employed. This book is a foundation on which the enterprise of Christian ministry can be built or refined. It provides perspective, constantly, on the ways the cultural landscape is informing and affecting the communication process.

Author : Jessica Gasiorek,R. Kelly Aune
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1433183765

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Creating Understanding by Jessica Gasiorek,R. Kelly Aune Pdf

Winner of the Jake Harwood Outstanding Book Award (2022). What, exactly, is understanding? And how do people create, maintain, and manipulate states of understanding via communication? This book addresses these questions, drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship in cognitive science, communication, psychology, and pragmatics. Rejecting classic descriptions of communication as "sending and receiving messages," this book proposes a novel perspective that depicts communication as a process in which interactants construct, test, and refine mental modes of a joint experience on the basis of the meme states (mental representations) activated by stimuli in social interactions. It explains how this process, when successful, results in interactants' mental models aligning, or becoming entrained--in other words, in creating a state of understanding. This framework is grounded in a set of foundational observations about evolved human cognition that highlight people's intrinsic social orientation, predisposition toward efficiency, and use of predictive interference-making. These principles are also used to explain how codified systems ("codes") emerge in extended or repeated interactions in which people endeavor to create understanding. Integrating and synthesizing research across disciplines, this book offers communication scholars and students a theoretical framework that will transform the way they see understanding, communication, and social connection.

Author : Grant P. Wiggins,Jay McTighe
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416611493

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The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-quality Units by Grant P. Wiggins,Jay McTighe Pdf

This book introduces version 2.0 of the UbD Template and allows you to download fillable electronic forms to help you more easily incorporate standards, advance your understanding of backward design, and improve student learning.

Author : Richard Beach, Professor Emeritus of English Education, University of Minnesota,Chris M. Anson, North Carolina State University,Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch,Thomas Reynolds
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781442228740

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Understanding and Creating Digital Texts by Richard Beach, Professor Emeritus of English Education, University of Minnesota,Chris M. Anson, North Carolina State University,Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch,Thomas Reynolds Pdf

This book provides activities and examples that use technological tools to help students learn how to create digital texts. This book also provides a basis for creating novel classroom activities that encourage students to define purpose and audience, make textual links, collaborate, gain new perspectives, and construct identities through writing. ies.

Author : Grant Wiggins,Jay McTighe
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416613305

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The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units by Grant Wiggins,Jay McTighe Pdf

The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units offers instructional modules on the basic concepts and elements of Understanding by Design (UbD), the "backward design" approach used by thousands of educators to create curriculum units and assessments that focus on developing students' understanding of important ideas. The eight modules are organized around the UbD Template Version 2.0 and feature components similar to what is typically provided in a UbD design workshop, including— * Discussion and explanation of key ideas in the module; * Guiding exercises, worksheets, and design tips; * Examples of unit designs; * Review criteria with prompts for self-assessment; and * A list of resources for further information. This guide is intended for K-16 educators—either individuals or groups—who may have received some training in UbD and want to continue their work independently; those who've read Understanding by Design and want to design curriculum units but have no access to formal training; graduate and undergraduate students in university curriculum courses; and school and district administrators, curriculum directors, and others who facilitate UbD work with staff. Users can go through the modules in sequence or skip around, depending on their previous experience with UbD and their preferred curriculum design style or approach. Unit creation, planning, and adaptation are easier than ever with the accompanying downloadable resources, including the UbD template set up as a fillable PDF form, additional worksheets, examples, and FAQs about the module topics that speak to UbD novices and veterans alike.

Author : Louise Møller,Christian Tollestrup
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781447141808

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Creating Shared Understanding in Product Development Teams by Louise Møller,Christian Tollestrup Pdf

Development projects that span different disciplines and groups often face problems in establishing a shared understanding of the project’s purpose, deliverables, and direction. Creating Shared Understanding in Product Development Teams: How to ‘Build the Beginning’ uses research-based cases from TC Electronic, The Red Cross, Daimler AG, and Copenhagen Living Lab to demonstrate one approach to this problem complex. It shows how prototyping specific physical artifacts can function as drivers and focal points for creating the much needed shared understanding. Encompassing both the participant’s and the facilitator’s point of view, Creating Shared Understanding in Product Development Teams: How to ‘Build the Beginning’ provides both practical examples and theoretical explanation for the process of creating shared understanding. This book provides a toolbox and a practical guide for planning, executing, and facilitating workshops. The result is a clear outline of how to facilitate the creation of physical artifacts that enables and stimulates communication between team members, users, and stakeholders in order to create shared understanding of projects

Author : Grant P. Wiggins,Jay McTighe
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416614098

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The Understanding by Design Guide to Advanced Concepts in Creating and Reviewing Units by Grant P. Wiggins,Jay McTighe Pdf

"This volume features a set of hands-on modules containing worksheets, models, and self-assessments that are essential for building more polished and powerful units"--

Author : Frances E. Kendall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415874267

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Understanding White Privilege by Frances E. Kendall Pdf

Understanding White Privilege delves into the complex interplay between race, power, and privilege in both organizations and private life.

Author : Jane Piirto
Publisher : Great Potential Press, Inc.
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Creative ability
ISBN : 9780910707275

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Understanding Those who Create by Jane Piirto Pdf

Presents research on creativity and talent development, features biographical studies of scientists, writers, artists, musicians, and other creatively gifted people that show the patterns their lives have followed, and offers advice for parents and educators on how to enhance and stimulate creativity in children.

Author : John Bradshaw
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780804150392

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Creating Love by John Bradshaw Pdf

“Why are so many of us at times completely baffled by a relationship? How can we think we know someone so well and admit in the end that we hardly knew that person at all? Why do many people who work diligently and strenuously to gain wholeness and balance still feel so frustrated about having a fulfilling relationship? Why have so many people given up on love?”—from the Prologue John Bradshaw’s bestselling books and compelling PBS series have touched and changed millions of lives. Now, in Creating Love, he offers us a new way to understand our most crucial relationships—with our romantic partners and spouses, with our parents and children, with friends and co-workers, with ourselves, and with God. Bradshaw’s compassionate approach shows that many of us have been literally “entranced” by past experiences of counterfeit love, so we unknowingly re-create patterns that can never fulfill us. Here he provides both the insights and the precise tools we need to keep those destructive patterns from repeating in the present. And then he shows how we can open ourselves to the soul-building work of real love—and create healthy, loving relationships where we can be fully ourselves in every part of our lives.

Author : Grant P. Wiggins,Jay McTighe
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416600350

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Understanding by Design by Grant P. Wiggins,Jay McTighe Pdf

What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.

Author : Dean A. Shepherd,Holger Patzelt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319487014

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Trailblazing in Entrepreneurship by Dean A. Shepherd,Holger Patzelt Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.In this book, the authors present a challenge for future research to build a stronger, more complete understanding of entrepreneurial phenomena. They argue that this more complete picture of entrepreneurial phenomena will likely come from scholars who undertake at least some trailblazing projects; from scholars who broaden the range of research questions, the potential outcomes of entrepreneurial action, and the selection and combination of research methods; and from researchers who avoid the endless debates about the margins of the field and its sub-fields or about whether one theoretical or philosophical lens is superior to another. This book offers suggestions for future research through a variety of topics including prosocial action, innovation, family business, sustainability and development, and the financial, social, and psychological costs of failure. It promises to make an important contribution to the development of the field and help academics, organizations, and society make useful contributions to the generation of entrepreneurial research.

Author : Naomi Sweller,Kazuki Sekine,Autumn Hostetter
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889713127

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Gesture-Speech Integration: Combining Gesture and Speech to Create Understanding by Naomi Sweller,Kazuki Sekine,Autumn Hostetter Pdf