In this lively and practical book, seasoned educator Jonathan Cassie shines a spotlight on gamification, an instructional approach that's revolutionizing K–12 education. Games are well known for their ability to inspire persistence. The best ones feature meaningful choices that have lasting consequences, reward experimentation, provide a like-minded community of players, and gently punish failure and encourage risk-taking behavior. Players feel challenged, but not overwhelmed....

Learning with technology doesn’t happen because a specific tool “revolutionizes” education. It happens when proven teaching strategies intersect with technology tools, and yet it’s not uncommon for teachers to use a tool because it’s “fun” or because the developer promises it will help students learn.Learning First, Technology Second offers teachers the professional learning they need to move from arbitrary uses of technology in their classrooms to thoughtful ways of addin...

This book is written with the intention to let readers understand and learn Python programming in a fun and easy way. Basically everybody finds it hard to understand programming language. However with the right techniques and programming logics, anyone can learn Python programming easily. In today's industry, Python programming is widely used for Big Data, Internet of Things, Geographical information, basic mathematical functions in school, university projects and etc. This book caters for...

Get practical tools to successfully develop collaborative online learning projects!Virtual museums provide an opportunity to spark learning through online access to multi-sensory information, and collaboration between sources is needed to efficiently and effectively catalog and present material. Collaborative Access to Virtual Museum Co

There's no escaping the fact that we are heading towards a tech-dominated future. It is, therefore, of great importance that your child is able to follow the times. This educational book features the basics of computers. Here, your child will learn about the computer parts and what their uses are. Grab a copy today!

In a culture of shared leadership, the administrator’s role is more important than ever. How do you maintain the right balance of loose and tight leadership? How do you establish profound, lasting trust? What principles strengthen principal leadership? This book answers these questions and more in compelling chapters that deliver the strategies and heartfelt inspiration essential to being the best administrator you can be.

Engaging Students through Inquiry-Oriented Learning and Technology is designed for anyone interested in integrating both inquiry and technology as a tool into a teaching and learning environment. This book will provide easy to follow step by step procedures to both plan and create an inquiry activity that uses the Internet as a learning tool.Engaging Students through Inquiry-Oriented Learning and Technology provides an overview of inquiry learning and the benefits...

Flexibility has become a watchword in modern education, but its implementation is by no means a straightforward matter. Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice sheds light on the often taken-for-granted assumptions that inform daily practice and examines the institutional dynamics that help and hinder efforts toward flexibility. The collection in international in scope, drawing on the experience of specialists in distance education from North America, the United Kingdom, Australia an...

Typing and developing keyboarding skills have a common goal from the typewriter to the computer the paperis formatted on 8-1/2" (across) by 11" (down) paper called the portrait position. Page 3 reviews common basics in measurement of how characters are perceived via the fonts on paper. Page 4 and page11depicts thedescriptive process of left and right margins from the typewriter to the computer. Centeringtext and top and bottom margins contiunues on pages 4, 5,and 6. Descriptiv...

In this book, participation in the arts is analyzed as a substantial contributory factor to European citizenship, and also as a tool for improving individual and societal wellbeing through educational and inclusive policies. It offers an up-to-date overview of ongoing research on the measurement and analysis of, and prospects for, traditional and new forms of cultural engagement in Europe. It describes and assesses available methods and participation in the arts and seeks to determine how ...

A collection of essays by ed-tech's "Cassandra" Audrey Watters, this book contains talks and tales of education technology: its histories, mythologies, ideologies, and monsters. Each chapter was originally delivered as a lecture during 2014.

Software projects today are often characterized by poor quality, schedule overruns and high costs. One of the approaches to address the poor success rate is to track the project progress with a stakeholder driven measurement model that is objective and validated theoretically and empirically. In this backdrop, based on the Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) model this book proposes a generic and objective measurement model for a software project with eight key measures based on the value propositi...