Teachers, Schools, and Society: A Brief Introduction to Education, 6th Edition, offers a broad, diverse, and stimulating view of education. Written in an engaging, student-friendly style, readers are immersed in an inspiring world of the teacher where current education headlines are brought to life. The text provides broad yet precise exposure to the realities of teaching and the role of education in our society. The text helps to answer important questions such as: Do I want to become a teacher? How do I become the best teacher possible? What should a professional in the field of education know? How are schools and teaching changing? The authors have added key findings from the research on how people learn, how to think critically about information, and how this research translates to the classroom. Focus Questions continue to provide a roadmap to the chapter content. And, McGraw Hill Connect® for Teachers, Schools, and Society is an interactive learning environment where you can access articles, case studies, and videos for each chapter which especially help guide students through a virtual learning environment. Instructors will also appreciate the robust resources available with this text (test bank, media videos, instructor manual, PPTs).

Teachers, Schools, and Society: A Brief Introduction to Education

Education & Teaching

Koch, Melissa

Sadker, David M.

Zittleman, Karen

Schools & Teaching

McGraw=Hill

Teachers, Schools, and Society: A Brief Introduction to Education, 6th Edition, offers a broad, diverse, and stimulating view of education. Written in an engaging, student-friendly style, readers are immersed in an inspiring world of the teacher where current education headlines are brought to life. The text provides broad yet precise exposure to the realities of teaching and the role of education in our society. The text helps to answer important questions such as: Do I want to become a teacher? How do I become the best teacher possible? What should a professional in the field of education know? How are schools and teaching changing? The authors have added key findings from the research on how people learn, how to think critically about information, and how this research translates to the classroom. Focus Questions continue to provide a roadmap to the chapter content. And, McGraw Hill Connect® for Teachers, Schools, and Society is an interactive learning environment where you can access articles, case studies, and videos for each chapter which especially help guide students through a virtual learning environment. Instructors will also appreciate the robust resources available with this text (test bank, media videos, instructor manual, PPTs).

Loose Leaf for Teachers, Schools, and Society: A Brief Introduction to Education

ISE Teachers, Schools, and Society: A Brief Introduction to Education (ISE HED B&B EDUCATION)

Science & Math

McGraw–Hill Education

3D printing was once only known through science fiction, such as Star Trek, the popular 1960s TV series. But inventors and engineers on Earth began experimenting in real life with 3D printing to find faster ways to develop and build prototypes, using computers, ultraviolet lasers, and printable materials. Now, there are many innovative uses for 3D printing. Yet 3D printing has drawbacks. Chemicals used in 3D printing can be toxic, and legal experts are not sure how to protect 3D printing inventions so that others do not steal ideas. Learn how 3D printing works and how we can keep up with the safety, health, and legal challenges that lie ahead.

3D Printing: The Revolution in Personalized Manufacturing

Teen & Young Adult

Education & Reference

Twenty-First Century Books ™

Trees are essential. They provide water, shelter, and food for millions of plant and animal species, including humans. They deliver proven health benefits, and they capture and store carbon, which combats climate change. Yet trees are in trouble. Forests are struggling to adapt to climate change, and deforestation is a major threat. Recently, researchers and citizen scientists made the surprising revelation that trees communicate with each other through an underground system of soil fungi and other methods. Complex social networks help trees survive and thrive by transferring resources to each other, sending defense signals, communicating with their kin, and more. Meet the tree scientists and learn more of their fascinating discoveries.

Forest Talk: How Trees Communicate

During the past year, the Internet has left the realm of research labs and higher education and entered mainstream America. Among educators, there is a growing sense that there is a "use it or lose it" opportunity. Many people have seen firsthand what can be achieved when students are provided with Net access and shown how to use online tools to support learning. Educators who are coming online must themselves experience what it is to learn through project-based, technology-enhanced approaches in their own learning in order to support this kind of learning for their students.NetAngels are some of early adopters of the Internet who are exploring its potential for education. These educators became NetAngels by helping others who are new to the Internet. These individuals have real-world experience in gaining support from others in the school, district, and community; finding funding; training teachers; demystifying technical issues; and making the Internet part of the innovative classroom and school. They have stories to share with other educators to help them use the medium to its full potential.Educators who aren't on the Internet or have had minimal experience with it can learn from these NetAngels and understand how to incorporate the Internet into their own professional development and students' learning. Without this understanding, schools won't connect to the Internet and educators won't use the connections they may have.In this book, the NetAngels and other educators already using the Internet in their classroom tell their stories to those educators uncertain of the educational benefits that the Internet offers. The stories by educators take the reader through the use of tools from an educator's perspective and provide tips on how to effectively integrate the tools and resources into the classroom. The educators' stories also serve as a guide for dealing with many of the instructional, curricular, professional development, administrative, and community issues that develop around the use of the Internet in schools.The seeds for the online portion of the book already exist. (http://prism.prs.k12.nj.us:70/0/WWW/OII/OIIhome.html) Started by Ferdi Serim, the author of the book, and funded by the National Science Foundation, the Online Internet Institute (OII) is an online six- to nine-week course where Internet-using educators, proponents of systemic reform, and content-area experts form online collaborative groups to 1) learn to use Internet tools better; 2) develop the process of creating online lessons; and 3) create new forms of online lessons.From these courses, which are held four times a year, OII plans to build an online National Professional Development Library (NPDL) composed of educators' stories about their online learning process, lessons, and resource ratings. Songline will be hosting this Library.The goal of the book is to invite educators online and reassure them that there will be people there to greet them.This book is like a travel guide, in that it helps orient you to a new place and immerse yourself in a new culture. Practically speaking, it offers advice on how to adapt, how to get what you want, and where to go to get help.

NetLearning: Why Teachers Use the Internet

Serim, Ferdi

Computers & Technology

O'Reilly Media

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