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Computational Thinking Curricula in K–12: International Implementations
An international overview of how policy makers, curriculum developers, and school practitioners can integrate computational thinking into K–12 curricula. In today's digital society, computational thinking (CT) is a critical component of all children's education. In Computational Thinking Curricula in K–12, editors Harold Abelson and Siu-Cheung Kong present a range of professional perspec…
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- 9780262378642
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- xviii, 304 p. : ill.
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- 004.071 ABE a
Multimodal literacy in school science: transdisciplinary perspectives on theo…
This book establishes a new theoretical and practical framework for multimodal disciplinary literacy (MDL) fused with the subject-specific science pedagogies of senior high school biology, chemistry and physics. It builds a compatible alignment of multiple representation and representation construction approaches to science pedagogy with the social semiotic, systemic functional linguistic-based…
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- 9780367714048
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- xvii, 286 p. : ill
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- 507.1 UNS m
Constructing science: connecting causal reasoning to scientific thinking in y…
Young children have remarkable capacities for causal reasoning, which are part of the foundation of their scientific thinking abilities. In Constructing Science, Deena Weisberg and David Sobel trace the ways that young children's sophisticated causal reasoning abilities combine with other cognitive, metacognitive, and social factors to develop into a more mature set of scientific thinking abili…
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- 9780262370615
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- xi, 374 p. : ill
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- 501 WEI c
Cats, carpenters, and accountants: bibliographical foundations of information…
An expansive case for bibliography as infrastructure in information science. Cats, Carpenters, and Accountants argues that bibliography serves a foundational role within information science as infrastructure, and like all infrastructures, it needs and deserves attention. Wayne de Fremery's thoughtful provocation positions bibliography as a means to serve the many ends pursued by information …
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- 9780262377966
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- 279 p. : ill.
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- History and foundations of information science
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- 010 DEF c
The environmental rule of law for oceans: designing legal solutions
Our oceans need a strong and effective environmental rule of law to protect them against increased pressures and demands, including climate change, pollution, fisheries, shipping and more. The environmental rule of law for oceans requires the existence of a set of rules and policies at multiple governance levels that appropriately regulate human activities at sea and ensure that pressures on th…
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- 9781009253741
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- xxxiii, 380 pages; illustration
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- 341.4 POZ t
Blockchain and crypt currency : building a high quality marketplace for crypt…
This open access book contributes to the creation of a cyber ecosystem supported by blockchain technology in which technology and people can coexist in harmony. Blockchains have shown that trusted records, or ledgers, of permanent data can be stored on the Internet in a decentralized manner. The decentralization of the recording process is expected to significantly economize the cost of transac…
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- 9789811533761
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- xiii, 141p. : ill.
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- 332.42 BLO b
Global voices in higher education
Traveling from Zimbabwe to New Zealand and on to Ghana and the United States, the voices of higher education are presented in a way only scholars from these regions can fully articulate and understand. The changing world of higher education challenges all of those involved in very unique ways. In Global Voices in Higher Education, scholars from 10 different countries share their work, describin…
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- 9789535132301
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- 218 p
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- 378 GLO g
Autonomous control for a reliable internet of services : methods, models, app…
This open access book was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST Action IC1304 “Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services (ACROSS)”. The book contains 14 chapters and constitutes a show-case of the main outcome of the Action in line with its scientific goals. It will serve as a valuable reference for undergraduate and post-graduate students, educators, faculty members, res…
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- 9783319904153
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- xvi, 400p. : ill.
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- 004.678 AUT a
Empire, colonialism, and the human sciences: troubling encounters in the Amer…
For readers interested in the history of science, Indigenous studies, Latin American studies, and studies of empire and colonialism, this volume offers a revisionist history of research encounters in the human sciences in imperial and colonial contexts in the Americas and the Pacific. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
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- 9781009398152
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- 388 p
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- 325.8 WAR e
Pragmatism and methodology: doing research that matters with mixed methods
A pragmatist … turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns towards concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power. That means the empiricist temper regnant, and the rationalist temper sincerely given up. It means the open ai…
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- 9781316516140
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- ix, 236 p ; 24 cm
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- 300.72 GIL p
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