This text provides a variety of practical and theoretical approaches to computer classroom design. Pedagogical, ethical, and political issues are discussed as well as nuts-and-bolts construction, adapting teaching styles to a CAI environment, use of specific hardware and software, and speculation regarding future electronic learning environments.
This text provides a variety of practical and theoretical approaches to computer classroom design.
The teaching and learning of mathematics in Alberta one of three Canadian provinces sharing a border with Montana has a long and storied history. An integral part of the past 50 years (19622012) of this history has been deltaK: Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers' Association. This volume, which presents ten memorable articles from each of the past five decades, that is, 50 articles from the past 50 years of the journal, provides an opportunity to share this rich history with a wide range of individuals interested in the teaching and learning of mathematics and mathematics education. Each decade begins with an introduction, providing a historical context, and concludes with a commentary from a prominent member of the Alberta mathematics education community. As a result, this monograph provides a historical account as well as a contemporary view of many of the trends and issues in the teaching and learning of mathematics. This volume is meant to serve as a resource for a variety of individuals, including teachers of mathematics, mathematics teacher educators, mathematics education researchers, historians, and undergraduate and graduate students. Most importantly, this volume is a celebratory retrospective on the work of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers' Association.
By February, the Senior High School Curriculum Committee of the Alberta
Department of Education had accepted in principle the recommendation that
separate sequences of high school mathematics courses be adopted for students
who were university-bound, non-universitybound, and business-oriented (
MCATA Newsletter, 1968). For the approximately 35 percent of Alberta high
school students who intended to go to university, the sequence consisted of
Mathematics 10 (grade 10) ...
(back cover) BARRON'S BUSINESS LIBRARY Titles in this series speak to men and women who are starting a company or managing an ongoing small-to-medium-size business. Emphasis is on daily operations as well as on analyzing problems and solving them. Examples and approaches cited in these books are based on true-to-life business situations. Writing a Convincing Business Plan Third Edition A sound business plan describes a business's operations and goals, analyzes and forecasts markets and sales, sets up operating and marketing plans and schedules, and estimates operating expenses. This book shows how to organize and write a logical and business-savvy plan that can be presented to potential investors and financial institutions.
These tools highlight key points that may be overlooked or unappreciated if
confined to text material. There are software packages that will readily allow you
to portray numerical information in a variety of graphic formats. While you should
not be overly reliant on these graphic aids, it is important to consider the method
of presentation that will be most easily understood and most quickly grasped by
your audience. "• Know the reader. If the business plan is to attract and hold the
reader's ...
Lecturers - request an e-inspection copy of this text or contact your local SAGE representative to discuss your course needs. In Writing and Doing Action Research, Jean McNiff provides a comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the practical aspects of writing and doing action research. Written for practitioners involved in higher degree courses and professional development programmes, and students undertaking methods courses, this book includes guidance on how to: Carry out an action research project in your setting Present your findings in a dissertation, report or thesis Write up your research with an eye to informing policy Demonstrate the quality of your research and writing Be critical and write theoretically Write for journals and prepare thesis and book proposals The book contains excerpts taken from action research projects in a range of settings and presents exercises to help you develop successful written accounts of your research. Writing and Doing Action Research is an essential text for anyone working with action research, providing vital guidance on the preparation and production of texts, how this type of work is assessed and enabling you to get the best results from your research.
This book is about writing action research and doing action research. It is written
for practitioner researchers studying for masters and doctoral degrees, lecturers,
and early career and more advanced researchers who wish to do action research
and write books and journal articles from the experience. It may appeal also to
those working in research traditions other than action research who wish to use
some of its principles, practices and methods; and for students on, say, qualitative
...
But quitting the consideration of the thought, to refer to the mode of its expression,
it must be remarked and insisted, that to " murder the king's English" is hardly less
a crime, than to design against one of the king's subjects. If committed from
ignorance, the fault is at least deplorable ; but if from carelessness, it is
inexcusable. The greatest of sciences is that of language ; the greatest of human
arts is that of using words. No " cunning hand" of the artificer can contrive a work
of mechanism ...
In the same manner, the subject of a conversation need not be made a matter of
study, or special preparation. Men may talk of things ... But quitting the
consideration of the thought, to refer to the mode of its expression, it must be
remarked and insisted, that to “murder the king's English” is hardly less a crime,
than to design against one of the king's subjects. If committed from ... The greatest
of sciences is that of language; the greatest of human arts is that of using words.
No “cunning ...
