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  • And, because of their choice, they fail to 'learn.'

    Hungry floreta 2009

  • The main weapon of education is the bull hook, or ankus -- picture a heavy, sharp fireplace poker -- and the trainers hit the elephants, often repeatedly, with the bull hook in various parts of their body, so that they comply, so they "learn."

    Duncan Strauss: TNT's Ringling Reality Series: Sickest Show On Earth? 2008

  • In the meantime, she took the data from the brain scans and crunched them through an algorithm used in artificial intelligence AI to program devices like smartphones to "learn."

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • But people watch and listen and read these stories to make money, not just to "learn."

    BloggingStocks 2009

  • It seems that the industry and the government will never learn. l%2FKyloGUSHY2J1HRBSM%2BQ0JzEjW6oqzl1%2Fcj%2FMEIIiAZbENILJK1Zp5ps1QQfFPup%2B7eHenH2BdsST86zpBUUDeexXsFvFQ2

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Robert L. Cavnar 2011

  • Social media prays for Japan quake victims - International Business Times Social Media and the Japan earthquake: What we can learn. « idisaster 2.0 tkcikl6Ct%2Flf9cIzGmw3z0kJUxuS7jBV8rpd4Rn7lmqmQVW8aeWTLSG%2BDfIL%2FFocffU2BkF95nLsmjsYpH0MHlywmsZWVbm%2F twsuccess

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Nichtern (1974) enumerated the ingredients of a meaningful educational assessment: “(1) identification of learning needs, (2) identification of blocks to learning and (3) evaluation of the current level of capacity to learn.” (p.

    Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

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