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Author: Charlie Samuels
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Published: 2010-08-01
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 1433941546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents some of the technological highlights for the period 1947 through 2010.
Author: Charlie Samuels
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Published: 2010-08-01
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 143394152X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHighlights scientific and technological innovations between 1900 and 1946, including radio, automobiles, television, antibiotics, radar, and nuclear fission.
Author: Charlie Samuels
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Published: 2010-08-01
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 1433941392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHighlights scientific and technological innovations prior to 1500, including paper, windmills, bridges, compasses, clocks, and guns.
Author: Charlie Samuels
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Published: 2010-08-01
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 143394149X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book covers the scientific developments of the 19th century, the great age of the machine when factory chimneys rose above industrial towns. Manufacturers constantly improved technology to get a commercial advantage. Meanwhile, other scientists began to explore fundamental questions about the nature of humans and their ancestors. Fun features, such as sidebars and timelines, allow for multiple learning opportunities.
Author: Charlie Samuels
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Published: 2010-08-01
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 1433941457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn only a few decades, new materials, new machines, new sources of power, and new methods of transportation changed the face of the world. Mines, furnaces, and mills formed the basis of towns where the routines of the natural world were subject to the rhythms of the factory. This book explores the innovations of the 18th century and how they changed the world forever. Sidebars offer interesting at-a-glance information that can be used to enrich reports and writing assignments, and a detailed timeline offers the big picture view of this life-changing era.
Author: Charlie Samuels
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Published: 2010-08-01
Total Pages: 51
ISBN-13: 1433949083
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is an incredible timeline of scientific development that occurred before we could record our history. Walled communities, calendars to track time, early irrigation systems, and domestication of animals all occurred in prehistory. Readers will be taken on a journey of scientific discovery of very ancient times—learning that a great deal of our lasting technologies stem from a not-so-primitive past. Sidebars and timelines support the main narrative.
Author: Charlie Samuels
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Published: 2010-08-01
Total Pages: 51
ISBN-13: 1433949105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book covers two centuries when amateur scientists—natural philosophers—began to use close observation and orderly experimentation to understand processes that had previously been explained by religion or superstition. By 1700, a new faith had emerged: a trust in the potential of human reason. This thrilling narrative is supported by photographs and illustrations, timelines and sidebars, and a host of other features that make exploration of this era accessible, entertaining, and unforgettable.
Author: Svetla Baykoucheva
Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Published: 2021-09-30
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0128237244
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew digital technologies have transformed how scientific information is created, disseminated—and discovered. The emergence of new forms of scientific publishing based on open science and open access have caused a major shift in scientific communication and a restructuring of the flow of information. Specialized indexing services and search engines are trying to get into information seekers' minds to understand what users are actually looking for when typing all these keywords or drawing chemical structures. Using artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and semantic indexing, these "discovery agents" are trying to anticipate users' information needs. In this highly competitive environment, authors should not sit and rely only on publishers, search engines, and indexing services to make their works visible. They need to communicate about their research and reach out to a larger audience. Driving Science Information Discovery in the Digital Age looks through the "eyes" of the main "players" in this "game" and examines the discovery of scientific information from three different, but intertwined, perspectives: - Discovering, managing, and using information (Information seeker perspective) - Publishing, disseminating, and making information discoverable (Publisher perspective) - Creating, spreading, and promoting information (Author perspective). - Presents an overview of the current scientific publishing landscape - Shows how users can search for scientific information more efficiently - Critically analyses the metrics used to measure the quality of journals and the impact of research - Looks at the discovery of scientific information from the perspectives of information seekers, publishers, and authors - Delves into the practices used by specialized indexing services and search engines to process scientific information and make it discoverable - Recommends strategies that authors could use to promote their research
Author: Artemis Preeshl
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-20
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0429797737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReframing Acting in the Digital Age: Nimbly Scaling Actor Training in the Academy refocuses how actors work in TV, film, and stage. In this refreshing text, Preeshl integrates original interviews with 25 theatre, film, TV, and digital media experts from leading international programs to create an essential contribution to actor training studies. These interviews cover diverse topics such as contemporary training methods, industry standards, and experiential learning, incorporating interdisciplinary recommendations from academics and professionals alike to navigate undergraduate actor training in the digital age. Digitally native undergraduates arrive at university being well versed in the digital and technological world, but as technologically savvy as these Millenials and Generation Z are, Preeshl and her interviewees show how acting and production degree programs can reframe these competencies to enable students to acquire and transfer digital skills. This phenomenological study bridges actor training methods across media to promote 'scaling' to update undergraduate actor training for the digital age. By applying the recommendations of these experts to curricular practices, universities may increase market share, diversity, and graduate employability. This in-depth field study is a vital read for acting teachers, students, professional actors, and scholars within theatre and film programs.
Author: Matteo Stocchetti
Publisher: Helsinki University Press
Published: 2020-08-11
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9523690132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThree decades into the ‘digital age’, the promises of emancipation of the digital ‘revolution’ in education are still unfulfilled. Furthermore, digitalization seems to generate new and unexpected challenges – for example, the unwarranted influence of digital monopolies, the radicalization of political communication, and the facilitation of mass surveillance, to name a few. This volume is a study of the downsides of digitalization and the re-organization of the social world that seems to be associated with it. In a critical perspective, technological development is not a natural but a social process: not autonomous from but very much dependent upon the interplay of forces and institutions in society. While influential forces seek to establish the idea that the practices of formal education should conform to technological change, here we support the view that education can challenge the capitalist appropriation of digital technology and, therefore, the nature and direction of change associated with it. This volume offers its readers intellectual prerequisites for critical engagement. It addresses themes such as Facebook’s response to its democratic discontents, the pedagogical implications of algorithmic knowledge and quantified self, as well as the impact of digitalization on academic profession. Finally, the book offers some elements to develop a vision of the role of education: what should be done in education to address the concerns that new communication technologies seem to pose more risks than opportunities for freedom and democracy.
