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Improving The Climate For Undergraduate Teaching And Learning In STEM Fields

  • Improving The Climate For Undergraduate Teaching And Learning In STEM Fields

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    Roger G. Baldwin, editor

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    Book, Jossey-Bass, 2009

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    Chapters discuss: OL {list-style:disc} P:{margin-left 60px}The climate for undergraduate teaching and learning in STEM fields Supportive teaching and learning strategies in STEM education Advancing STEM teaching and learning with research teams Facilitating reforms in STEM undergraduate education: an administrative perspective Discipline-based efforts to enhance undergraduate STEM education The National Perspective: Fostering the Enhancement of STEM Undergraduate Education Preparing STEM Doctoral Students for Future Faculty Careers Climate Change: Creating Conditions Conducive to Quality STEM Undergraduate Education In each of these chapters, contributors provide an illuminating analysis of problems facing STEM education and suggest actions needed to strengthen STEM undergraduate education in a time when science and technology competence are more important than ever. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  LB2361.5 .I46 2009  AVAILABLE

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The Inner History Of Devices

  • The Inner History Of Devices

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    edited and with an introductory essay by Sherry Turkle

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    Book, MIT Press, 2008

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    For more than two decades, in such landmark studies as The Second Self and Life on the Screen, Sherry Turkle has challenged our collective imagination with her insights about how technology enters our private worlds. One personal computer owner tells Turkle: “This computer means everything to me. In the memoirs, ethnographies, and clinical cases collected in this volume, we read about an American student who comes to terms with her conflicting identities as she contemplates a cell phone she used in Japan (”Tokyo sat trapped inside it”); (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  T14.5 .I5643 2008  DUE 02-03-10

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In The Shadow Of Progress : Being Human In The Age Of Technology

  • In The Shadow Of Progress : Being Human In The Age Of Technology

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    Eric Cohen

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    Book, 1st ed, Encounter Books, 2008

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    We live in an age of unprecedented human mastery — over birth and death, body and mind, nature and human nature. In the Shadow of Progress: Being Human in the Age of Technology is a deep and lively reflection on the moral challenges of the technological age. What is lost when we relieve human sadness by altering the chemical balance of the brain, or enhance human performance by altering the biological workings of the body? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  BJ59 .C595 2008  AVAILABLE

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Mr. Lincoln’s High-tech War : How The North Used The Telegraph, Railroads, Surveillance Balloons, Ironclads, High-powered Weapons, And More To Win The Civil War

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Research On Technology And The Teaching And Learning Of Mathematics. Volume 1, Research Syntheses

  • Research On Technology And The Teaching And Learning Of Mathematics. Volume 1, Research Syntheses

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    edited by M. Kathleen Heid and Glendon W. Blume

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    Book, Information Age Pub, 2008

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    A volume in Research on Technology and the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics: Syntheses, Cases, and Perspectives According to NCTM’s Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, “Technology is essential in teaching and learning of mathematics; Additional chapters synthesize research on technology in the practice of teaching and on equity issues in the use of technology in mathematics instruction.Instead of simply reporting achievement scores of students who use technology in their learning, authors provide thoughtful analyses of bodies of research with the goal of understanding the ways in which technology affects what and how students learn. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  QA11.2 .R46 2008  AVAILABLE

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Research On Technology And The Teaching And Learning Of Mathematics. Volume 2, Cases And Perspectives

  • Research On Technology And The Teaching And Learning Of Mathematics. Volume 2, Cases And Perspectives

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    edited by Glendon W. Blume and M. Kathleen Heid

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    Book, Information Age Pub, 2008

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    A volume in Research on Technology and the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics: Syntheses, Cases, and Perspectives According to NCTM’s Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, “Technology is essential in teaching and learning of mathematics; In response to the need to craft appropriate roles for technology in school mathematics new technological approaches have been applied to the teaching and learning of mathematics, and these approaches have been examined by researchers world-wide. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  QA11.2 .C375 2008  AVAILABLE

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Cyberia

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Meaning In Technology

  • Meaning In Technology

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    Arnold Pacey

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    Book, MIT Press, 1999

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    In previous books Arnold Pacey has written about the role of ideas and ideals in the creation of technology, about the global history of technology, and about how the complex interaction of political, cultural, economic, and scientific influences determines the course of technological practice. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  T14 .P28 1999  AVAILABLE

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Technology, Pessimism, And Postmodernism

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Feminist Cultural Studies Of Science And Technology

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Born Digital : Understanding The First Generation Of Digital Natives

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Essential Skills For Science & Technology

  • Essential Skills For Science & Technology

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    Peter Zeegers … [et al.]

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    Book, Oxford Univ. Press, 2008

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    This book introduces the core academic skills students in this area need to learn & apply to succeed at university. Next, the book tackles how to take data from a range of sources to construct your own perspective on a scientific issue & how to present it in both written & oral forms. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  Q181 .E73 2008  DUE 11-14-09

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The Machine In America : A Social History Of Technology

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Distracted : The Erosion Of Attention And The Coming Dark Age

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Should We Risk It? : Exploring Environmental, Health, And Technological Problem Solving

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