Author: Moira Monteith
Publisher: Intellect L & D E F a E
Keywords: enhancement, curriculum, ict
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2004-05-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1841500615
ISBN-13: 9781841500614

This volume considers the cognitive nature of courses connected with ICT or using ICT as an integral part of the course, including some views on the associated learning and teaching styles. Which factors lead to learning outcomes and are these intended or fortuitous? Factors may include ones specific to particular subject areas and their relationship with ICT, motivation associated with ICT usage, the interest which teachers, pupils and students who enjoy using ICT bring to the learning context. Developments in the use of ICT, particularly in an educational context where use of ICT has become

Author: Richard Powers
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: enhancement, generosity
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-09-29
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0374161143
ISBN-13: 9780374161149

FROM THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD–WINNING AUTHOR OF THE ECHO MAKER, A PLAYFUL AND PROVOCATIVE NOVEL ABOUT THE DISCOVERY OF THE HAPPINESS GENEWhen Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar’s blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. How can this refugee from perpetual terror be so happy? Won’t someone so open and alive come to serious harm? Wondering how to protect her, Russell researches her war-torn country and skims through popular happi

Author: Edward W. Orr
Publisher: Hanser Gardner Publications
Keywords: coatings, enhancement, performance
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 1998-09
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 1569902631
ISBN-13: 9781569902639

Author: Moira Monteith
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: enhancement, learning
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 9026515243
ISBN-13: 9789026515248

IT for Learning Enhancement considers the ways in which IT promotes learning; it also examines how research can perform a very useful function by encouraging reflection on the part of teachers and the development and sharing of good practice. IT for Learning Enhancement includes examples of current research and indicates how such evidence can be used in a sensible and practicable manner. The book is particularly timely on three counts. IT is moving into a new phase as regards the development of communications while at the same time it is likely that the majority of children will s

Author: Elaine Norman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: enhancement, resiliency
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-08-15
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0231118007
ISBN-13: 9780231118002

The strengths perspective is a new focus in social work today, but until now little has been done to move this focus beyond the realm of theoretical discourse. In Resiliency Enhancement, Elaine Norman and her colleagues bridge the gap between theory and implementation to illustrate how resiliency enhancement -strengthening an individual´s ability to function competently even in the presence of major life stressors -enables social workers to put the strengths perspective successfully into practice for their clients. Resiliency is based on a common core of personality characteristics and dispo

Author: Jack Richards
Publisher: iUniverse.com
Keywords: enhancement, dormant
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 2010-07-29
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1450246958
ISBN-13: 9781450246958

It was clear to everyone that the public schools were failing. The causes were varied: increasing parental absence, a negative peer group influence, and a sexualized, media-driven marketplace. To combat these problems, a program called Dormant Enhancement was developed by a team of educators and scientists. By the year 2018, it was the law of the land. Now all children on their twelfth birthday are required to enter the program-no exceptions. They are placed in individualized cubicles to receive uninterrupted programming and to avoid negative pressures from their peers. They graduate on the

Author: Richard Powers
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: enhancement, generosity
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2010-08-03
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0312429754
ISBN-13: 9780312429751

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARThe National Book Award-winning author of The Echo Maker proves yet again that "no writer of our time dreams on a grander scale or more knowingly captures the zeitgeist." (The Dallas Morning News).What will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness?  Who will own the patent?  Do we dare revise our own temperaments?  Funny, fast, and magical, Generosity celebrates both science and the freed imagination. In his most exuberant book yet, Richard Powers asks us to consider the big questions facing humankind as we