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Effective Practices in AI Literacy Education serves as a go to guide for university key stakeholders, such as students, academics and professional support staff seeking to develop their AI literacy skills.
This volume presents international perspectives on the application and development of theory and methodology in researching higher education. Topics discussed include critical race theory; the use of communities of practice theory; participant ethnography; and decolonization using indigenous principles.
Written during the COVID pandemic, this book offers a unique, timely insight into the acceleration of digitalization in higher education.
Writing a doctoral thesis can be an arduous and confusing process. Writing a Watertight Thesis helps you to demystify many doctoral concerns and provides a clear framework for developing a sound structure for your thesis, making your thesis watertight, clear, and defensible. Now with the added experience of Mark A. Fabrizi, the authors draw on their extensive experience of supervising and examining numerous doctorates from an internationally diverse and multicultural student body around the world, including in Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, the UK and the USA. The chapters on preparing a research proposal, the viva process, and developing publishable articles out of your ...
Buku "Teknologi Media Pembelajaran : Penerapan Teknologi Media Pembelajaran di Era Digital" adalah sebuah panduan komprehensif yang membahas peran teknologi dalam dunia pendidikan modern. Mulai dari Konteks Pendidikan dalam Era Teknologi hingga Peran Guru dalam Era Teknologi, buku ini menguraikan evolusi teknologi dalam pembelajaran serta implikasinya. Pembaca akan diajak untuk memahami Definisi dan Karakteristik Media Pembelajaran serta Teori Belajar dan Media Pembelajaran, yang membantu mengilustrasikan bagaimana teknologi dapat meningkatkan proses belajar siswa dengan efektif. Lebih lanjut, buku ini mengulas berbagai jenis media, termasuk Media Audiovisual dan Media Digital Interaktif, serta membahas pendekatan seperti Blended Learning dan E-Learning. Dengan fokus pada penggunaan Sosial Media dalam Pendidikan, buku ini memberikan wawasan tentang integrasi teknologi dalam pembelajaran. Sebagai panduan yang tak ternilai, buku ini memberikan pemahaman mendalam bagi pendidik dan pembelajar tentang pentingnya teknologi dalam meningkatkan kualitas pendidikan di era digital.
From texting and social networking sites to after-school activities, young people have many opportunities to interact with one another, and yet loneliness and isolation trouble today’s youth in increasing numbers. Many children and teens report feeling lonely even in the midst of family and friends, and childhood loneliness is a prime risk factor for adult alienation. Lonely Children and Adolescents: Self-Perceptions, Social Exclusion, and Hope illuminates seldom-explored experiences of social isolation among young people as well as the frustrations of the parents and teachers who wish to help. This groundbreaking book conceptualizes loneliness not simply as the absence of social connectio...
In this lively and approachable volume based on his popular blog series, Martin Weller demonstrates a rich history of innovation and effective implementation of ed tech across higher education. From Bulletin Board Systems to blockchain, Weller follows the trajectory of education by focusing each chapter on a technology, theory, or concept that has influenced each year since 1994. Calling for both caution and enthusiasm, Weller advocates for a critical and research-based approach to new technologies, particularly in light of disinformation, the impact of social media on politics, and data surveillance trends. A concise and necessary retrospective, this book will be valuable to educators, ed tech practitioners, and higher education administrators, as well as students.
"The writing is beautiful, the ideas persuasive, and the picture it paints of the process of careful observation is one that every writer should read. . . . A rich and wonderful book." —American Journal of Education A landmark contribution to the field of research methodology, this remarkable book illuminates the origins, purposes, and features of portraiture—placing it within the larger discourse on social science inquiry and mapping it onto the broader terrain of qualitative research.
Transformative learning involves experiencing a deep, structural shift in the basic premises of thought, feelings, and actions. It is a shift of consciousness that dramatically and permanently alters our way of being in the world. Such a shift involves our understanding of ourselves and our self-locations; our relationships with other humans and with the natural world; our understanding of relations of power in interlocking structures of class, race and gender; our body awarenesses; our visions of alternative approaches to living; and our sense of possibilities for social justice and peace and personal joy. The editors of this collection make several challenges to the existing field of trans...
How ed tech was born: Twentieth-century teaching machines--from Sidney Pressey's mechanized test-giver to B. F. Skinner's behaviorist bell-ringing box. Contrary to popular belief, ed tech did not begin with videos on the internet. The idea of technology that would allow students to "go at their own pace" did not originate in Silicon Valley. In Teaching Machines, education writer Audrey Watters offers a lively history of predigital educational technology, from Sidney Pressey's mechanized positive-reinforcement provider to B. F. Skinner's behaviorist bell-ringing box. Watters shows that these machines and the pedagogy that accompanied them sprang from ideas--bite-sized content, individualized ...