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  2. Hopkinsville Community College - Wikipedia

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    Hopkinsville Community College. / 36.8826; -87.4883. Hopkinsville Community College ( HCC) is a public community college in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. It is one of 16 two-year, open-admissions colleges of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS). Founded in 1965, HCC maintains a main campus in Hopkinsville and an off-site campus ...

  3. Blackboard - Wikipedia

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    Uses. Reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made. A blackboard or a chalkboard is a reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made with sticks of calcium sulphate or calcium carbonate, known, when used for this purpose, as chalk. Blackboards were originally made of smooth, thin sheets of black or dark grey slate stone.

  4. Blackboard Jungle - Wikipedia

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    Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 American social drama film about an English teacher in an interracial inner-city school, based on the 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter and adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks. It is remembered for its innovative use of rock and roll in its soundtrack, for casting grown adults as high ...

  5. Contextualization (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Contextualization in sociolinguistics refers to the use of language (both spoken language and body language) to signal relevant aspects of an interaction or communicative situation. This may include clues to who is talking, their relationship, where the conversation is occurring, and much more. These clues can be drawn from how the language is ...

  6. Cathedral of Learning - Wikipedia

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    The Cathedral of Learning is a 42-story skyscraper that serves as the centerpiece of the University of Pittsburgh's (Pitt) main campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Standing at 535 feet (163 m), [6] the 42-story Late Gothic Revival Cathedral is the tallest educational building in the Western Hemisphere and the second ...

  7. Authentic learning - Wikipedia

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    In education, authentic learning is an instructional approach that allows students to explore, discuss, and meaningfully construct concepts and relationships in contexts that involve real-world problems and projects that are relevant to the learner. [1] It refers to a "wide variety of educational and instructional techniques focused on ...

  8. Mastery learning - Wikipedia

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    Mastery learning maintains that students must achieve a level of mastery (e.g., 90% on a knowledge test) in prerequisite knowledge before moving forward to learn subsequent information. If a student does not achieve mastery on the test, they are given additional support in learning and reviewing the information and then tested again. This cycle ...

  9. Problem-based learning - Wikipedia

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    A PBL group at Sydney Dental Hospital. Problem-based learning ( PBL) is a student-centered pedagogy in which students learn about a subject through the experience of solving an open-ended problem found in trigger material. The PBL process does not focus on problem solving with a defined solution, but it allows for the development of other ...