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Author : Jenae Cohn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781952271038
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Skim, Dive, Surface written by Jenae Cohn and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students are reading on screens more than ever--how can we teach them to be better digital readers?
Author : Thomas Trappenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192563092
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Fundamentals of Machine Learning written by Thomas Trappenberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in machine learning is exploding worldwide, both in research and for industrial applications. Machine learning is fast becoming a fundamental part of everyday life. This book is a brief introduction to this area - exploring its importance in a range of many disciplines, from science to engineering, and even its broader impact on our society. The book is written in a style that strikes a balance between brevity of explanation, rigorous mathematical argument, and outlines principle ideas. At the same time, it provides a comprehensive overview of a variety of methods and their application within this field. This includes an introduction to Bayesian approaches to modeling, as well as deep learning. Writing small programs to apply machine learning techniques is made easy by high level programming systems, and this book shows examples in Python with the machine learning libraries 'sklearn' and 'Keras'. The first four chapters concentrate on the practical side of applying machine learning techniques. The following four chapters discuss more fundamental concepts that includes their formulation in a probabilistic context. This is followed by two more chapters on advanced models, that of recurrent neural networks and that of reinforcement learning. The book closes with a brief discussion on the impact of machine learning and AI on our society. Fundamentals of Machine Learning provides a brief and accessible introduction to this rapidly growing field, one that will appeal to students and researchers across computer science and computational neuroscience, as well as the broader cognitive sciences.
Author : Ann Raimes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Techniques in Teaching Writing written by Ann Raimes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1983-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tactics for Listening is a comprehensive three-level listening series that features high-interest topics to engage and motivate students.
Author : Phillip Finch
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312383947
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (839 download)
Download or read book Diving Into Darkness written by Phillip Finch and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finch chronicles the harrowing true story of two friends who plunge 900 feet into the water in South Africa--and only one returns. What happened that day is the stuff of nightmarish drama, but it's also a compelling human story of friendship and of coming to terms with loss and tragedy. 8-page color photo insert.
Author : Chris Grosso
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476747083
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Indie Spiritualist written by Chris Grosso and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a recovering addict, musician, and tattooed indie culturist: a guidebook for today’s generation of spiritual misfits who crave a dogma-free path. Brutally honest and radically unconventional, Chris Grosso’s collection of stories and musings about his meandering journey of self-inquiry, recovery, and acceptance shows what it means to live a truly authentic spiritual life. Set amongst the backdrop of Grosso’s original music (included for download via QR codes in the text), Indie Spiritualist encourages you to accept yourself just as you are, in all your humanity and imperfect perfection.
Author : Susan D. Blum
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501774190
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Schoolishness written by Susan D. Blum and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Schoolishness, Susan D. Blum continues her journey as an anthropologist and educator. The author defines "schoolishness" as educational practices that emphasize packaged "learning," unimaginative teaching, uniformity, constant evaluation by others, arbitrary forms, predetermined time, and artificial boundaries, resulting in personal and educational alienation, dependence, and dread. Drawing on critical, progressive, and feminist pedagogy in conversation with the anthropology of learning, and building on the insights of her two previous books Blum proposes less-schoolish ways of learning in ten dimensions, to lessen the mismatch between learning in school and learning in the wild. She asks, if learning is our human "superpower," why is it so difficult to accomplish in school? In every chapter Blum compares the fake learning of schoolishness with successful examples of authentic learning, including in her own courses, which she scrutinizes critically. Schoolishness is not a pedagogical how-to book, but a theory-based phenomenology of institutional education. It has moral, psychological, and educational arguments against schoolishness that, as Blum notes, "rhymes with foolishness."
Author : Thomas J. Tobin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781946684608
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (846 download)
Download or read book Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone written by Thomas J. Tobin and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advocates for the rights of people with disabilities have worked hard to make universal design in the built environment "just part of what we do." We no longer see curb cuts, for instance, as accommodations for people with disabilities, but perceive their usefulness every time we ride our bikes or push our strollers through crosswalks. This is also a perfect model for Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a framework grounded in the neuroscience of why, what, and how people learn. Tobin and Behling show that, although it is often associated with students with disabilities, UDL can be profitably broadened toward a larger ease-of-use and general diversity framework. Captioned instructional videos, for example, benefit learners with hearing impairments but also the student who worries about waking her young children at night or those studying on a noisy team bus. Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone is aimed at faculty members, faculty-service staff, disability support providers, student-service staff, campus leaders, and graduate students who want to strengthen the engagement, interaction, and performance of all college students. It includes resources for readers who want to become UDL experts and advocates: real-world case studies, active-learning techniques, UDL coaching skills, micro- and macro-level UDL-adoption guidance, and use-them-now resources.
Author : Karen Mehringer
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738710539
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Sail Into Your Dreams written by Karen Mehringer and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2007 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sail into Your Dreams" is the perfect book for anyone who''s ever asked, Is this all there is to life? Unsatisfied with her busy life in Seattle, Karen Mehringer embarked on a six-month, life-changing ocean odyssey to Australia, Indonesia, Fiji, and, most importantly, toward the joyful, fulfilling life she had always wanted. You don''t have to leave land to make your dreams come true. Karen shares the wisdom and practical tools she learned on her ocean odyssey, showing us how to focus on what truly matters. Journal entries and inspiring stories from Karen and others highlight how to slow down, nurture yourself, connect with others, and tap into your life force energy-the source of infinite possibilities. This eight-step program will help you assess your life and eliminate toxic relationships, emotional trauma, physical clutter, and debt-making space for new experiences that awaken your passion and spirit.
Author : Bill Streever
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 031655135X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book In Oceans Deep written by Bill Streever and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this masterful account in the spirit of Bill Bryson and Ian Frazier, a longtime deep-sea diver masterfully weaves together the science and history of Earth's last remaining frontier: the sea. In an age of unprecedented exploration and innovation, our oceans remain largely unknown, and endlessly fascinating: full of mystery, danger, beauty, and inspiration. In Oceans Deep celebrates the daring pioneers who tested the limits of what the human body can endure under water: free divers able to reach 300 feet on a single breath; engineers and scientists who uncovered the secrets of decompression; teenagers who built their own diving gear from discarded boilers and garden hoses in the 1930s; saturation divers who lived under water for weeks at a time in the 1960s; and the trailblazing men who voluntarily breathed experimental gases at pressures sufficient to trigger insanity. Tracing both the little-known history and exciting future of how we travel and study the depths, Streever's captivating journey includes seventeenth-century leather-hulled submarines, their nuclear-powered descendants, a workshop where luxury submersibles are built for billionaire clients, and robots capable of roving unsupervised between continents, revolutionizing access to the ocean. In this far-flung trip to the wild, night-dark place of shipwrecks, trapped submariners, oil wells, innovative technologies, and people willing to risk their lives while challenging the deep, we discover all the adventures our seas have to offer -- and why they are in such dire need of conservation.
Author : Raj, Ambika Gopal
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799882896
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Creativity as Progressive Pedagogy: Examinations Into Culture, Performance, and Challenges written by Raj, Ambika Gopal and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In every era, global progressive thinkers have used creativity as a means for cultural reformation and social justice in response to oppressive regimes. For example, theater, cartoons, social art, film, and other forms of representative arts have always been used as critical instigation to create agency or critical commentary on current affairs. In the education sector, teachers in schools often say one of two things: they are not creative or that they don't have the time to be creative given the curricular demands and administrative mandates that they are required to follow. Each day, educators are working to find exceptionally creative ways to engage their students with limited resources and supplies, and this becomes even more of a challenge during turbulent times. Creativity as Progressive Pedagogy: Examinations Into Culture, Performance, and Challenges primarily focuses on pedagogical creativity and culture as related to various aspects of social justice and identity. This book presents experience-based content and showcases the necessity for pedagogical creativity to give students agency and the connections between cultural sensitivity and creativity. Covering topics such as the social capital gap, digital spaces, and underprivileged students, this book is an indispensable resource for educators in both K-12 and higher education, administrators, researchers, faculty, policymakers, leaders in education, pre-service teachers, and academicians.
Author : Jenae Cohn
Publisher : Rosenfeld Media
ISBN 13 : 1959029037
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Design for Learning written by Jenae Cohn and published by Rosenfeld Media. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Online learning can be so dull—or not! Enter Jenae Cohn and Michael Greer, experienced authors and teachers, who decided it was time to take on the challenge of making online learning more interesting and compelling for students. So, they met in a Zoom call, contacted Rosenfeld Media, and wrote this book, Design for Learning: User Experience in Online Teaching and Learning (many Zoom calls later). The book is structured to teach online learning in such a way that anyone can follow its practices and create a dynamic educational presentation. Chapters cover everything from learning about your learners and setting learning goals to building connections with learners and giving them feedback. In addition, the authors dive into the nitty-gritty details of creating online courses, including takeaways at the end of each chapter and easy-to-follow examples throughout. “I particularly appreciate how thoughtful Jenae and Michael are about considering the experience from the learner’s point of view and the emphasis they put on learner agency.” —Julie Dirksen, Author, Design for How People Learn Together, Jenae Cohn and Michael Greer have years of experience designing and producing online courses for students. They wanted the tone of their book to be friendly, supportive, engaging, empathetic, and thoughtful. With that in mind, they chose examples that reflected what an ordinary user might encounter on a day-to-day basis, highlighting everything from complex skills (accessibility) to the most minute details, such as “smile when you talk” for a friendlier tone. Takeaways Writing compelling content and instructional text Designing interesting text and visuals Planning and producing videos Recording sound and voice-overs Creating and facilitating live website presentations Designing surveys for class feedback Rating whether your presentation was successful Who This Book Is For Teachers, learning development professionals, and anyone tasked with designing an online course or a one-off workshop Content creators, instructional designers, user experience designers, and others who care about the experience of online learning Whether you’re a novice or experienced online instructional designer, this book will show you how to apply industry best practices, and provide how-to examples, powerful templates, and activities to craft compelling instructional content—whether text, audio, or video. Best of all—your course will never be called dull again. Frequently Asked Questions Q: How do I design a course that really keeps people’s attention online? A: When it comes to online learning, distraction is a huge concern, and engagement metrics are a big part of how designers can tell if a course is really engaging. We believe that the more targeted a course is to your specific learners and their needs, the better you’ll be able to serve them. (See Chapter 2, “Learning About Your Learners,” to understand where your learners might be coming from.) We also have specific strategies for keeping learners’ attention once the course is running (see Chapters 8, “Facilitating Live Webinar Presentations,” and 9, “Building Connections Among Learners”). Q: Is it really possible to create an online course or training that’s just as good as an on-site one? A: We think so! But it’s important for readers to recognize that an online learning experience is really different than an on-site course. Comparing the two experiences is (forgive the cliché) like comparing apples and oranges. You have to have different expectations up front—and so do your learners. In Chapter 4, “Building a Space for Online Learning,” we explore what unique advantages and limitations there are around building a course in an online space and consider how the lessons from UX research can inform quality experiences online. Q: I’ve been asked to design a course in just a month. Will this book help me design something quickly? A: A lot of designers have tight turnarounds, so you’ll find advice that could be applied on a shorter timeline. Specifically, you can modify some of the design approaches in Chapters 2, “Learning About Your Learners,” and 3, “Setting the Foundation.” In the chapters about video planning and production (Chapters 6, “Planning Videos, and 7, “Producing Videos”), you’ll learn tips to make simpler videos in case you don’t have time for an extensive video planning and editing process.
Author : Christina Moore
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000979652
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Mobile-Mindful Teaching and Learning written by Christina Moore and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides faculty and instructors with an introductory guide to integrating mobile learning in their courses. Recognizing that a smartphone is the first and main piece of technology anyone owns, with ownership exceeding 95% for those aged 18-29, with a sizable minority of these being smartphone-dependent; and that instructors are relying on technology for teaching and learning more than ever; this book addresses the imperative that course materials and interactions be increasingly available through the technology that students use most often. Dispelling the notion that mobile learning is for the tech-savvy and adventurous, mobile-mindful teaching offers teachers a way to take a few steps at a time, share options with students, and progressively develop ideas and practices. The book invites you to explore your own way into mobile learning.Christina Moore stresses two principles as you engage with mobile learning--intention and fluidity. This begins with mindfully implementing mobile learning opportunities so that students see the usefulness of learning via phone; and recognizing the fluid learning environments in which students learn so you can offer online modalities and functions appropriate to purpose and situations.The book opens with a “start with self” section on How to Be a Mobile Mindful Learner, offering ideas on exploring the almost infinite available online resources in your discipline to curate a rich and ever-expanding compilation of ideas for use in your scholarly work and teaching; and identifying different types of learning (digital reading, audio and visual learning, and social learning) across multiple devices and contexts to consider as you develop your course.The section “Toward Mobile-Mindful Teaching” explores ways to add mobile options to existing learning materials and how they and the LMS functions you use are rendered on a phone by taking a mobile test drive through your course.Christina Moore shows how, by building up your mobile learning skills to be a more productive scholar and developing habits that feed your curiosity and creativity, you can start planning how you can create fluid learning opportunities for your students they can access across devices, time, and space, and take advantage of found moments of time and informal spaces.
Author : Otto Kruse
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031360338
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)
Download or read book Digital Writing Technologies in Higher Education written by Otto Kruse and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book serves as a comprehensive guide to digital writing technology, featuring contributions from over 20 renowned researchers from various disciplines around the world. The book is designed to provide a state-of-the-art synthesis of the developments in digital writing in higher education, making it an essential resource for anyone interested in this rapidly evolving field. In the first part of the book, the authors offer an overview of the impact that digitalization has had on writing, covering more than 25 key technological innovations and their implications for writing practices and pedagogical uses. Drawing on these chapters, the second part of the book explores the theoretical underpinnings of digital writing technology such as writing and learning, writing quality, formulation support, writing and thinking, and writing processes. The authors provide insightful analysis on the impact of these developments and offer valuable insights into the future of writing. Overall, this book provides a cohesive and consistent theoretical view of the new realities of digital writing, complementing existing literature on the digitalization of writing. It is an essential resource for scholars, educators, and practitioners interested in the intersection of technology and writing.
Author : Md Golam Jamil
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030929795
Total Pages : 845 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Agile Learning Environments amid Disruption written by Md Golam Jamil and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection addresses the need of evaluating innovative or non-traditional academic schemes for understanding their feasibility in extraordinary educational environments. The individual chapters are enriched with robust appraisals of policies and practices linked to academic innovations in higher education during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. The case studies report wide-ranging teaching, learning and academic support practices within online, open, blended and distance learning models. The findings supply two domains of scholarship: evidence-based scenarios through real-world case studies, and a critical evaluation of educational quality through research-informed argument. The evidence gathered from countries, such as Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, China, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and the UK show empowering and deterring elements of academic innovation amid disruptions. Although this book highlights academic innovations in disruptive situations, they emerge as powerful tools and approaches to be considered in traditional face to face learning.
Author : Clarice M. Moran
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666947881
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)
Download or read book Revolutionizing English Education written by Clarice M. Moran and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has seemingly burst into public consciousness with sudden vigor. Previously relinquished to computer science journals, it erupted as the unrelenting topic of public media with most of the furor surrounding chatbots, like ChatGPT. Although many educators began worrying about the implications of AI in student learning and creative activity, this book will demonstrate that AI can be harnessed as a source of inspiration and meaningful instruction. With an emphasis on useful classroom strategies as well as a consideration of the ethics of AI, this book seeks to start a conversation in this nascent area of research and practice. The primary focus is on the use of AI in the secondary English classroom, but educators in other disciplines will find plenty of ideas and information.
Author : J. M. Ledgard
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566893305
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Submergence written by J. M. Ledgard and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning foreign correspondent’s cerebral spy novel-cum-love story exposes humanity’s tenuous hold on a vast and relentless world.
Author : Merlin B. Thompson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781538164037
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (64 download)
Download or read book More Than Music Lessons written by Merlin B. Thompson and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2022 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than Music Lessons invites contemporary music studio teachers to link their teaching with notions of humanity and presents a timely vision of bringing student-centered teaching to life in the applied studio. It provides a myriad of practical tips and strategies, exploring the themes of parents, practicing, projects, and character.
