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Artificial intelligence may change the world more than the iPhone, the internet, or even electricity. It's bound to change education. (It already has.) But how? AI for Educators is a readable, relatable book about the impact of AI on the classroom-today and in the future. It's super practical, giving you ideas and strategies you can use in class right away: It translates AI through a teacher lens; It provides practical ideas you can use in class right...
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'Émile, Or Treatise on Education' is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be, the "best and most important of all my writings". During the French Revolution, Émile served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education. This version contains dozens of linked footnotes by Jules Steeg.
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“Spontaneous Activity in Education” is a book written by Maria Montessori, the founder of the Montessori method of education. In this book, Montessori discusses the importance of children's natural desire to learn and how it can be fostered through the creation of a carefully prepared environment. She argues that children are capable of directing their own learning and that teachers should act as facilitators rather than direct instructors. Montessori...
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How to envision theological education in this time between the times.
The dominant model of theological education is coming to an end-but Ted A. Smith looks to its ultimate ends as sources of hope and renewal.
Smith locates the crisis facing theological education today in a sweeping history of religion in the United States, from the standing orders of the colonial period to the voluntary associations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He then...
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Reframing Education provides teachers, school leaders, and parents with concise yet reliable ideas at the core of effective teaching. As time marches on, mindsets evolve, and education must keep pace. The students of today need fresh perspectives to navigate a world we cannot yet envision. We must push with them the wheel of progress – not to replicate the past, but to allow the next generation to chart their own course with grit, compassion, and...
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One size does not fit all in education – Education Transformation shows us how technology can be used to accommodate individual's needs rather than making each student force fit into the traditional classroom model which works for many but not for all. Like so many other modern conveniences, education can benefit from technological advancement, and only technology can provide personalized instruction affordably.
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Education Reimagined: Changes Required in The U.S. Education System from Students' Perspectives is a revised edition of the original 2017 publication of the book. The book is an uplifting narrative of changes within the United States education system from a student's perspective voicing their opinions. The issues highlighted in the book have practical solutions on a local, state, and federal level.
There are explanations of the problems students...
96) On Education
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Kuyper on the Divine Purpose for Education
Among Abraham Kuyper's many accomplishments was his founding of the Free University of Amsterdam, where he also served as president and professor of theology. This collection of essays and speeches presents Kuyper's theology and philosophy of education, and his understanding of the divine purpose of scholarship for human culture. Included are convocation addresses given at the Free University, parliamentary...
97) Home Education
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Home Education consists of six lectures by Charlotte Mason about the raising and educating of young children (up to the age of nine), for parents and teachers. She encourages us to spend a lot of time outdoors, immersed in nature and handling natural objects and collecting experiences on which to base the rest of their education. She discusses the use of training in good habits such as attention, thinking, imagining, remembering, performing tasks...
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Peter Cory has traversed Isis and become a 10th level WWyhr Läaq, but R'gGnrök is still coming and H. Sapiens, Earth humanity, is still acting like a spoiled two-year-old with nukes as its toys and murder as its preferred method of conflict resolution. Before humanity can be trusted with the tools that it desperately needs to fight R'gGnrök, it's going to need some Spēcial Education.
99) Moral Education
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18 lectures by an influential theorist who discusses school as an appropriate setting for moral education. A pioneer of sociology, Durkheim explains the first element in fostering morality as the development of a sense of discipline, followed by a willingness to behave in accordance with collective interest, and a sense of autonomy.
100) School Education
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School Education, the third volume of Charlotte Mason's Homeschooling Series, consists of thoughts about the teaching and curriculum of children aged 9-12, either at school or at home. She suggests that parents should practice what she calls 'masterly inactivity': not neglectful or permissive parenting, but simply allowing children to work things out for themselves, do things for themselves, learn from their own mistakes, and to have time for free...