"'This is a short, engagingly written academic trade-style book looking at aerial technologies-with particular emphasis on drones, followed by satellites, and some bits about balloons and kites-and how those technologies are/have been used for the public good, particularly by the activist and social movement crowd. The author argues that social movements regularly use technology to challenge po…
How lessons from kindergarten can help everyone develop the creative thinking skills needed to thrive in today's society. In kindergartens these days, children spend more time with math worksheets and phonics flashcards than building blocks and finger paint. Kindergarten is becoming more like the rest of school. In Lifelong Kindergarten , learning expert Mitchel Resnick argues for exactly the …
The graffiti of the French student and worker uprising of May 1968, capturing participatory politics in action."Fifty years ago, in 1968, barricades were erected in the streets of Paris for the first time since the Paris Commune of nearly one hundred years before. The events of May 1968 began with student protests against the Vietnam War and American imperialism but quickly expanded to rebellio…
"A complete and authoritative of the neural control of movement in animals ranging from lampreys to humans, including the roles of the cortex and basal ganglia, and will also cover motor disorders"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Using a well-known and successful dance and performance method, the authors describe how avatars and robots can be designed to be more comfortable with these technologies"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Garcia lays out tactics for researchers to fully engage in education policy by directly engaging with politicians -- at levels from local to national -- both before and after they are elected"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"The first comprehensive study of conceptual and performance art in Yugoslavia from the late 1960s-1980s under the umbrella of socialism, inc. origin stories of artists such as Marina Abramovi?c'"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Gaskins draws on research and theory from culturally responsive pedagogy to reimagine the maker movement as more inclusive and diverse"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"With contributions from both original visionaries and emergent scholars, this volume extends the educational theory of constructionism, including recent movements in coding and making"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Exploring the relation between sensation and thought through the prisms of dance, cinema, art, and the new media, Manning argues for the intensity of movement, developing the concept of preacceleration which makes palpable how movement creates relational intervals out of which displacements take form.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.