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“stephen slota”

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  • The Worldbuilding Workshop

    Teaching Critical Thinking and Empathy Through World Modeling, Simulation, and Play

    by Trent Hergenrader, Stephen Slota ...
    A research-based instructional approach that cultivates critical thinking, empathy, and inquiry through collaborative environmental and societal modeling.In The Worldbuilding Workshop, Trent Hergenrader and Stephen Slota explore collaborative worldbuilding as an educational tool for deconstructing and analyzing the planet’s most urgent, relevant, and mind-boggling questions.Their process unfolds ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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  • The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

    What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

    by Nicholas Carr ...
    Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: “Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.”—Michael Agger, Slate“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • When Can You Trust the Experts?

    How to Tell Good Science from Bad in Education

    by Daniel T. Willingham ...
    Clear, easy principles to spot what's nonsense and what's reliableEach year, teachers, administrators, and parents face a barrage of new education software, games, workbooks, and professional development programs purporting to be "based on the latest research." While some of these products are rooted in solid science, the research behind many others is grossly exaggerated. This new book, written ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

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  • 21st Century Skills

    Rethinking How Students Learn

    Edited by James A. Bellanca ...
    Series series Leading Edge
    This anthology introduces the Framework for 21st Century Learning from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills as a way to re-envision learning and prepare students for a rapidly evolving global and technological world. Highly respected education leaders and innovators focus on why these skills are necessary, which are most important, and how to best help schools include them in curriculum and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Critical Thinking Now

    Practical Teaching Methods for Classrooms around the World

    by Nancy Burkhalter ...
    Today’s curricula can (and should) incorporate critical thinking methods because they are the means by which people best understand, learn, and retain higher level concepts. Contrary to what many professional trainers assume, teaching critical thinking is not achieved by shoveling facts at an audience through lecturing or multiple choice testing. It requires sustained, finely tuned teaching and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom

    Hopeful Essays for 21st Century Learning

    by Marc R. Prensky ...
    An expert perspective on 21st century educationWhat can you learn on a cell phone? Almost anything! How does that concept fit with our traditional system of education? It doesn′t. Best-selling author and futurist Marc Prensky′sbook of essays challenges educators to "reboot" and make the changes necessary to prepare students for 21st century careers. His "bottom-up" vision is based on interviews ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Teacher’s Guide to Media Literacy

    Critical Thinking in a Multimedia World

    by Faith Rogow, Cynthia L. Scheibe ...
    Use media literacy to reach all students!The Teacher′s Guide to Media Literacy starts by asking, "What does it mean to be literate in today′s world, and how can those literacy skills be developed?" The authors answer those questions by providing concrete, innovative ways to integrate media literacy across the curriculum and teach students to be independent, skilled, and reflective thinkers. ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Emotional AI

    The Rise of Empathic Media

    by Andrew McStay ...
    What happens when media technologies are able to interpret our feelings, emotions, moods, and intentions? In this cutting edge new book, Andrew McStay explores that very question and argues that these abilities result in a form of technological empathy. Offering a balanced and incisive overview of the issues raised by ‘Emotional AI’, this book:Provides a clear account of the social benefits and ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Learning with e's

    Educational theory and practice in the digital age

    by Steve Wheeler ...
    In an age where young people seem to have a natural affinity with smartphones, computer games and social media, teachers and lecturers face a big challenge - or a golden opportunity. How can new technology promote learning, engage students and motivate them to sustain a lifelong career in learning? For educators everywhere, our challenge is to take devices that have the potential for great ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Augmented Intelligence

    Smart Systems and the Future of Work and Learning

    Edited by Daniel Araya ...
    Series Book 81 - New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies
    Where the Agricultural Revolution harnessed domesticated animals for pastoral farming, and the Industrial Revolution leveraged machines for factory production, so today the Computational Revolution is advancing computers to augment human intelligence. Indeed, many now argue that the promise of exascale computing and the slow migration towards a computational society may represent a new threshold ... Read more

    $48.09 USD

  • The Social Studies Helper

    Creative Assignments for Exam Success

    by Denise Fawcett Facey ...
    Based on the highest levels of Bloom's taxonomy, The Social Studies Helper easily integrates technology into every core high school social studies course as well as two electives. These creative assignments are designed to appeal to visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning styles as the students are immersed in research, role-playing, art, etc.This is the resource book that you will turn to again ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Teaching, Learning, Literacy in Our High-Risk High-Tech World

    A Framework for Becoming Human

    by James Paul Gee ...
    This is a profound look at learning, language, and literacy. It is also about brains and bodies. And it is about talk, texts, media, and society. These topics, though usually studied in different narrow academic silos, are all part of one highly interactive process—human development. Gee argues that children will need to be resilient, imaginative, hopeful, and deliberate learners to survive the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD