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We live in a world awash in images. The recent technological revolutions in video recording, editing. and distribution are more akin to the development of movable type than any other such revolution in the last 500 years. And yet we are not popularly cognizant of or conversant with the grammar of visual communication, the coded messages of its style, and the practical components of its production. We are largely, in a word, illiterate. But this is...
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266 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
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"The internet brings information to our fingertips almost instantly. The result is that we often react hastily, without taking a moment to verify the source or get a quick read on a claim before engaging with a viral piece of media. Information literacy experts Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg help us identify red flags, gain a quick sense of context, and make more efficient use of websites like Google and Wikipedia that can help and hinder in equal...
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"When asked simple questions about global trends -- what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish school -- we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. Professor and TED presenter Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators,...
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x, 371 pages ; 25 cm.
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"Basic consumer information and guidelines on teen financial literacy and transitioning to adulthood. Offers career-planning guidance and covers internships, apprenticeships, and college; saving and spending wisely; money-management tools and other financial information offered as additional resources"--
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Online and in the news, the word "disinformation" appears often, but what does it mean, and how can it be combated? This book explores the most common usage of the term disinformation, the intentional spread of false information for political means, and provides guidance for how to spot it online, with special attention paid to its propagation through social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. With colorful photographs and sidebars about...
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Touchpad Artificial Intelligence series has some salient features such as AI Reboot, AI Deep Thinking,
AI in Life, AI Lab and AI Ready which ensures that NEP 2020 guidelines are followed.
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- National Education Policy 2020
- AI Game: It contains an interesting game or activity for the students to try on their own or with their classmates to learn how the game mechanics work while having fun.
- Brainy Fact: It presents an interesting...
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vi, 248 pages ; 22 cm
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Seife takes "us deep into the Internet information jungle and [cuts] a path through the trickery, fakery, and cyber skullduggery that the online world enables. Taking on everything from breaking news coverage and online dating to program trading and that eccentric and unreliable source that is Wikipedia, Seife arms his readers with actual tools--or weapons--for discerning truth from fiction online"--
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xviii, 181 pages : charts ; 24 cm
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"Raising an Active Reader explains research on reading aloud with children who are in early elementary school (grades K-3). Upon completion, adults will know how read aloud works for children who are learning to read, and how the ABCs of Active Reading (Ask questions, Build vocabulary, and make Connections) build important reading skills"--
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"Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money--investing, personal finance, and business decisions--is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don't make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal...
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Facebook, Google, and other major internet companies track clicks and use that data to provide personalized content. More and more, each person encounters a unique online world, what some experts call a "web of one." This essential resource explores what filter bubbles are and how they work. It looks at the potential downsides of filter bubbles, such as deepening political divides and the rise of confirmation bias. It offers helpful advice about how...
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We live in an era of misinformation, much of it spread by authority figures, including politicians, religious leaders, broadcasters, and, of course, apps and websites. With so much bogus information coming from so many sources, how can anyone be expected to discover the truth? In Debunk It, author John Grant uses modern, ripped-from-the-headlines examples to clearly explain how to identify bad evidence and poor arguments. He provides a roundup of...
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2 laminated bilingual information sheets ; non-laminated informational packet ; Learning with Llama Llama ABC / illustrations by J.T. Morrow ; A is for apple ; Now I know my ABCs musical sing-along book / illustrated by Louise Anglicas ; ABC and 123 learning songs interactive sound book / illustrated by Beatrice Costamagna ; Alphabet wooden puzzle / Rompecabezas de madera del alfabeto ; Go Fish alphabet cards / Tarjetas del alfabeto Go Fish ; in vinyl and canvas zippered tote 50 x 36
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2 laminated bilingual information sheets ; non-laminated informational packet ; Learning with Llama Llama ABC / illustrations by J.T. Morrow ; A is for apple ; Now I know my ABCs musical sing-along book / illustrated by Louise Anglicas ; ABC and 123 learning songs interactive sound book / illustrated by Beatrice Costamagna ; Alphabet wooden puzzle / Rompecabezas de madera del alfabeto ; Go Fish alphabet cards / Tarjetas del alfabeto Go Fish ; in vinyl...
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xiii, 169 pages ; 22 cm
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Hirsch shows why American students perform less well than students in other industrialized countries. Drawing on classroom observation, the history of ideas, and current scientific understanding of the patterns of intellectual growth, he builds the case that our schools have indeed made progress in teaching the mechanics of reading, but do not convey the more complex and essential content needed for reading comprehension. Hirsch reasons that literacy...
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2 laminated bilingual information sheets ; non-laminated informational packet ; My first bilingual trucks / los camiones / Sarah Davis ; Lift the flap vehicles ; Lift and look trains / by Felicity Brooks ; Let's go! lift-a-sound / ; Honk on the road / by Thea Feldman ; Wooden alphabet train / Tren de madera con el alfabeto ; in vinyl and canvas zippered tote 50 x 36
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2 laminated bilingual information sheets ; non-laminated informational packet ; My first bilingual trucks / los camiones / Sarah Davis ; Lift the flap vehicles ; Lift and look trains / by Felicity Brooks ; Let's go! lift-a-sound / ; Honk on the road / by Thea Feldman ; Wooden alphabet train / Tren de madera con el alfabeto ; in vinyl and canvas zippered tote 50 x 36.
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