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Some thoughts concerning education, and Consequences of the lowering of inter…
•SiR, — These Thoughts concerning Education, which now come abroad into the world, do of right belong to you, being written several years since for your sake, and are no other than what you have already by you in my letters. I have so little varied any thing, but only the order of what was sent you at different times, and on several occasions, that the reader will easily find, in the famili…
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- 656893731
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- cdl; americana
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- SRLF:LAGE-2235643
Instruction and Technology: Designs for Everyday Learning
This title is a rigorous multidisciplinary analysis of the influence of emerging technologies on instruction and learning that lays the groundwork for future inquiry.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289634
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- 1 online resource (xix, 495 pages) :illustrations
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Measuring what matters most :choice-based assessments for the digital age
"If a fundamental goal of education is to prepare students to act independently in the world -- in other words, to make good choices -- an ideal educational assessment would measure how well we are preparing students to do so. Current assessments, however, focus almost exclusively on how much knowledge students have accrued and can retrieve. In Measuring What Matters Most, Daniel Schwartz and D…
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- 9780262312882
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- 1 online resource (vi, 181 pages) :illustrations.
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Short Circuits: Crafting e-Puppets with DIY Electronics
Tools and methods for creating electronic puppets.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262320016
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- 1 online resource.
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Script Changers: Digital Storytelling with Scratch
Helping students create interactive and animated stories about positive change in their communities.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262319980
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- 1 online resource (xxxviii, 311 pages) :illustrations.
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Educating all children: A global agenda
Access to education increased enormously in the past century, and higher proportions of people are completing primary, secondary, or tertiary education than ever before. But efforts to universalize the provision of high-quality schooling face major problems. In Educating All Children (which grew out of a multidisciplinary project undertaken by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences), leading…
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- 9780262270526
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 597 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Building the intentional university :Minerva and the future of higher education
Includes index."We start with a simple question: If you could reinvent higher education for the 21st century, what should it look like? We began by taking a hard look at problems in traditional higher education, and innovated in many ways to address these problems head-on: We have created a new curriculum, focusing on what we call "practical knowledge"; we have developed new pedagogy, based on …
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Bring the world to the child :technologies of global citizenship in american …
How, long before the advent of computers and the internet, educators used technology to help students become media-literate, future-ready, and world-minded citizens. Today, educators, technology leaders, and policy makers promote the importance of "global," "wired," and "multimodal" learning; efforts to teach young people to become engaged global citizens and skilled users of media often go han…
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- 1 online resource (296 pages).
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Robot-proof :higher education in the age of artificial intelligence
"How to educate the next generation of college students to invent, to create, and to discover--filling needs that even the most sophisticated robot cannot. Driverless cars are hitting the road, powered by artificial intelligence. Robots can climb stairs, open doors, win Jeopardy, analyze stocks, work in factories, find parking spaces, advise oncologists. In the past, automation was considered a…
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- 9780262344319
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 187 pages)
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Researching and Transforming Adult Learning and Communities
Can adult education and learning be understood without reference to community and people’s daily lives? The response to be found in the chapters of this volume say emphatically no, they cannot. Adult learning can be best understood if we look at the social life of people in communities, and this book is an attempt to recover this view. The chapters of this volume reflect ongoing research i…
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