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How we read now : Strategic choices for print, screen, and audio / by Baron, Naomi S.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Foreword / Maryanne Wolf / List of Tables and Figures / Introduction: The New Great Debate in Reading / Part I Sizing Up Reading What's at Stake? / Chapter 1: What Do We Mean by "Reading" and "Reader"? / Chapter 2: What are You Reading? / Chapter 3: Print Reading: A Gold Standard? / Part II Reading in Print versus Onscreen What's at Stake? / Chapter 4: What Research Tells Us: Single Texts / Chapter 5: What Research Tells Us: Multiple Texts / Chapter 6: Strategies for Effective Reading Onscreen / Part III Reading with Audio What's at Stake? / Chapter 7: What Research Tells Us about Audio (and Video) / Chapter 8: Strategies for Effective Reading with Audio (and Video) / Part IV What's Next? What's at Stake? / Chapter 9: Strategizing Reading in a Digital World / Chapter 10: The Road Ahead.We face constant choices about how we read. Educators must select classroom materials. College students weigh their textbook options. Parents make decisions for their children. The digital revolution has transformed reading, and with the recent turn to remote learning, onscreen reading may seem like the only viable option. Yet selecting digital is often based on cost or convenience, not on educational evidence. Now more than ever it is imperative to understand how reading medium actually impacts learning--and what strategies we need in order to read effectively in all formats.In How We Read Now, Naomi Baron draws on a wealth of knowledge and research to explain important differences in the way we concentrate, understand, and remember across multiple formats. Mobilizing work from international scholarship along with findings from her own studies of reading practices, Baron addresses key challenges--from student complaints that print is boring to the hazards of digital reading for critical thinking. Rather than arguing for one format over another, she explains how we read and learn in different settings, shedding new light on the current state of reading. The book then crucially connects research insights to concrete applications, offering practical approaches for maximizing learning with print, digital text, audio, and video.Since screens and audio are now entrenched--and invaluable-platforms for reading, we need to rethink ways of helping readers at all stages use them more wisely. How We Read Now shows us how to do that. -- provided by publisher.Description based on print version record.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Reading;
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Deviced! : balancing life and technology in a digital world / by Dodgen-Magee, Doreen,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227) and index.Introduction: How to read this book -- Part I: How devices are impacting us. There's no such thing as IRL ; This applies to you (and me and every other person) ; Living outside our skin ; Our bodies and brains on tech ; Technology and relationships ; Technology and the self -- Part II: Moving with intention toward a grounded self. The fertile ground of idle time ; Cultivating an internal locus of control -- Part III: Telling ourselves the truth and finding a new balance. Habits and norms ; Assessing our technology use and making adjustments ; Spotting points and the fiery life ; Getting to decide (and being cheered on for doing so!) -- Appendix: Discussion questions and suggestions for further exploration.Using personal stories, cutting edge research, and anecdotes from youth, parents, and professionals, Dodgen-Magee highlights the brain changes that result from excessive technology use and offers a mindful approach to assessing current technology use, breaking bad habits, setting new norms, and re-engaging with life with renewed richness and awareness.
Subjects: Technological innovations;
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Dot-dash to Dot.com : how modern telecommunications evolved from the telegraph to the internet / by Wheen, Andrew.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The birth of an industry -- The telegraph goes global -- A gatecrasher spoils the party -- Early telephone networks -- Going digital -- A bit of wet string -- The last mile -- Computers get chatty -- The birth of the Internet -- Life in cyberspace -- The mobile revolution -- When failure is not an option -- What comes next?
Subjects: Telecommunication; Telecommunication;
© c2011., Springer ; published in association with Praxis Pub.,
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Ten technologies to save the planet : energy options for a low-carbon future / by Goodall, Chris.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.We face the dual crises of peak oil and climate change. How will we meet future global energy demands? Goodall combines cutting-edge analysis and fascinating stories of the inventors, scientists, and entrepreneurs developing real-world technologies.Introduction -- Capturing the wind -- Solar energy -- Electricity from the oceans -- Combined heat and power -- Super-efficient homes -- Electric cars -- Motor fuels from cellulose -- Capturing carbon -- Biochar -- Soils and forests -- Putting it all together.
Subjects: Greenhouse gas mitigation;
© c2010., Greystone Books ; Distributed in the U.S. by Publishers Group West,
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Media, journalism, and "fake news" : A reference handbook / by Damico, Amy M.,author.;
Description based on print version record.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Journalism;
On-line resources: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kirtland-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5940284 -- Available online. Click here to access.;
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Bit by bit : how video games transformed our world / by Ervin, Andrew.;
"Charting the material and technological history of video games, from the 1950s to the present"--Ervin blends history, memoir and reportage to examine the explosive popularity of video games. He shows how games constitute a unique storytelling medium that offers us startling new ways to think about our lives and the world around us. And he argues that the best games, as defined by the aesthetic and even political ambitions of their creators, rise to the level of art.Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Epic origins -- 2. Era of innovation -- 3. Atari -- 4. Call to adventure -- 5. Arcade projects -- 6. The first auteur -- 7. The renaissance -- 8. Dialing up -- 9. An American master -- 10. World of warcraft -- 11. Trigger warnings -- 12. Exile and the kingdom -- 13. New auteurs -- 14. The art question -- 15. Restart -- Appendix: My 11 favorite games.
Subjects: Video games; Video games;
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The future of the professions : how technology will transform the work of human experts / by Susskind, Richard E.; Susskind, Daniel,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-335) and index.This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others, to work as they did in the 20th century. The Future of the Professions explains how 'increasingly capable systems' - from telepresence to artificial intelligence - will bring fundamental change in the way that the 'practical expertise' of specialists is made available in society. The authors challenge the 'grand bargain' - the arrangement that grants various monopolies to today's professionals. They argue that our current professions are antiquated, opaque and no longer affordable, and that the expertise of the best is enjoyed only by a few. In their place, they propose six new models for producing and distributing expertise in society.
Subjects: Professional employees; Technological innovations;
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The aisles have eyes : how retailers track your shopping, strip your privacy, and define your power / by Turow, Joseph.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-314) and index.A frog slowly boiled -- The discriminating merchant -- Toward the data-powered aisle -- Hunting the mobile shopper -- Loyalty as bait -- Personalizing the aisles -- What now?"By one expert's prediction, within twenty years half of Americans will have body implants that tell retailers how they feel about specific products as they browse their local stores. The notion may be outlandish, but it reflects executives' drive to understand shoppers in the aisles with the same obsessive detail that they track us online. In fact, a hidden surveillance revolution is already taking place inside brick-and-mortar stores, where Americans still do most of their buying. Drawing on his interviews with retail executives, analysis of trade publications, and experiences at insider industry meetings, advertising and digital studies expert Joseph Turow pulls back the curtain on these trends, showing how a new hyper-competitive generation of merchants-- including Macy's, Target, and Walmart-- is already using data mining, in-store tracking, and predictive analytics to change the way we buy, undermine our privacy, and define our reputations."--
Subjects: Consumer profiling.; Consumer behavior.; Marketing; Customer services;
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So much, so fast, so little time : coming to terms with rapid change and its consequences / by St. Clair, Michael,1940-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- What is happening to us? and why? -- So much information is changing how we think -- Communication, entertainment, and overstimulation -- Work : how it changes and how it changes us -- New behaviors and changes in manners -- Faster and faster time -- Families, women, and sex -- Making sense of contradictory social trends -- Conclusion.
Subjects: Change.; Change (Psychology); Technological innovations;
© c2011., Praeger,
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Science transformed? : debating claims of an epochal break / by Nordmann, Alfred,1956-; Radder, Hans.; Schiemann, Gregor.;
Science after the end of science? An introduction to the "epochal break thesis" / Alfred Nordmann, Hans Radder, Gregor Schiemann -- The age of technoscience / Alfred Nordmann -- We are not witnesses to a new scientific revolution / Gregor Schiemann -- "Knowledge is power," or how to capture the relationship between science and technoscience / Martin Carrier -- Climbing the hill: seeing (and not seeing) epochal breaks from multiple vantage points / Cyrus C. M. Mody -- Breaking up with the epochal break: the case of engineering sciences / Mieke Boon, Tarja Knuuttila -- Science and its recent history: from an epochal break to novel, nonlocal patterns / Hans Radder -- Knowledge-making in transition: on the changing contexts of science and technology / Andrew Jamison -- Alliances between styles: a new model for the interaction between science and technology / Chunglin Kwa -- Experimenting with the concept of experiment: probing the epochal break / Astrid Schwarz, Wolfgang Krohn -- Intensification, not transformation: digital media's effects on scientific practice / Valerie Hanson -- Technologies of viewing: aspects of imaging in natural sciences / Angela Krewani -- Technoscience as popular culture: on pleasure, consumer technologies, and the economy of attention / Jutta Weber -- The good old days: medical research then and now / James Robert Brown -- Toward a new culture of prediction: computational modeling in the era of desktop computing / Ann Johnson, Johannes Lenhard -- Epilogue: the sticking points of the epochal break thesis / Hans Radder."Advancements in computing, instrumentation, robotics, digital imaging, and simulation modeling are changing science into a technology-driven institution. The pragmatic interests of government, industry, and society increasingly exert their influence over science, raising questions of values and objectivity. These and other profound changes in the world of science have led many to speculate that we are in the midst of an epochal break in scientific history. This edited volume presents an in-depth examination of these issues from philosophical, historical, social, and cultural perspectives. It presents arguments both for and against the epochal break thesis in light of historical antecedents, offering an important occasion for philosophical analysis of the epistemic, institutional and moral questions affecting current and future scientific pursuits. "--P. 4 of cover.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Science; Science; Science;
© c2011., University of Pittsburgh Press,
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