Thinking Programs

Author : Wolfgang Schreiner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783030805074

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Thinking Programs by Wolfgang Schreiner Pdf

This book describes some basic principles that allow developers of computer programs (computer scientists, software engineers, programmers) to clearly think about the artifacts they deal with in their daily work: data types, programming languages, programs written in these languages that compute from given inputs wanted outputs, and programs that describe continuously executing systems. The core message is that clear thinking about programs can be expressed in a single universal language, the formal language of logic. Apart from its universal elegance and expressiveness, this “logical” approach to the formal modeling of and reasoning about computer programs has another advantage: due to advances in computational logic (automated theorem proving, satisfiability solving, model checking), nowadays much of this process can be supported by software. This book therefore accompanies its theoretical elaborations by practical demonstrations of various systems and tools that are based on respectively make use of the presented logical underpinnings.

Author : Richard A. Berk,Peter H. Rossi
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761917659

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Thinking about Program Evaluation by Richard A. Berk,Peter H. Rossi Pdf

Through the use of specific examples to illustrate evaluation research goals and methods, this book provides readers with an overview of the science and politics of evaluation research. The Second Edition includes coverage of meta-analysis, selection models and instrumental variables.

Author : John Spencer,Christopher Millson-Martula
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317994862

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Critical Thinking Within the Library Program by John Spencer,Christopher Millson-Martula Pdf

While academic librarians frequently discuss critical thinking and its relationship to information literacy, the literature does not contain an abundance of sources on the topic. Therefore, this works provides a current and timely perspective on the possible roles of critical thinking within the library program. The work contains a variety of approaches likely to benefit the practicing librarian. It begins with a review of the literature, followed by theoretical approaches involving constructivism and the Socratic method. Readers will find pieces on the integration of critical thinking into the first-year experience and course-specific case studies, as well as a selection on a campus-wide critical thinking project. In each of the pieces, librarians are exploring new ways to meet their instructional goals, including the goal of teaching critical thinking skills to students across the curriculum. This book was originally published as a special issue of College & Undergraduate Libraries.

Author : Sharon Boller,Laura Fletcher
Publisher : Association for Talent Development
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781950496198

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Design Thinking for Training and Development by Sharon Boller,Laura Fletcher Pdf

Better Learning Solutions Through Better Learning Experiences When training and development initiatives treat learning as something that occurs as a one-time event, the learner and the business suffer. Using design thinking can help talent development professionals ensure learning sticks to drive improved performance. Design Thinking for Training and Development offers a primer on design thinking, a human-centered process and problem-solving methodology that focuses on involving users of a solution in its design. For effective design thinking, talent development professionals need to go beyond the UX, the user experience, and incorporate the LX, the learner experience. In this how-to guide for applying design thinking tools and techniques, Sharon Boller and Laura Fletcher share how they adapted the traditional design thinking process for training and development projects. Their process involves steps to: Get perspective. Refine the problem. Ideate and prototype. Iterate (develop, test, pilot, and refine). Implement. Design thinking is about balancing the three forces on training and development programs: learner wants and needs, business needs, and constraints. Learn how to get buy-in from skeptical stakeholders. Discover why taking requests for training, gathering the perspective of stakeholders and learners, and crafting problem statements will uncover the true issue at hand. Two in-depth case studies show how the authors made design thinking work. Job aids and tools featured in this book include: a strategy blueprint to uncover what a stakeholder is trying to solve an empathy map to capture the learner’s thoughts, actions, motivators, and challenges an experience map to better understand how the learner performs. With its hands-on, use-it-today approach, this book will get you started on your own journey to applying design thinking.

Author : Carolyn N. Hedley,Patricia Antonacci,Mitchell Rabinowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135447021

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Thinking and Literacy by Carolyn N. Hedley,Patricia Antonacci,Mitchell Rabinowitz Pdf

This volume explores higher level, critical, and creative thinking, as well as reflective decision making and problem solving -- what teachers should emphasize when teaching literacy across the curriculum. Focusing on how to encourage learners to become independent thinking, learning, and communicating participants in home, school, and community environments, this book is concerned with integrated learning in a curriculum of inclusion. It emphasizes how to provide a curriculum for students where they are socially interactive, personally reflective, and academically informed. Contributors are authorities on such topics as cognition and learning, classroom climates, knowledge bases of the curriculum, the use of technology, strategic reading and learning, imagery and analogy as a source of creative thinking, the nature of motivation, the affective domain in learning, cognitive apprenticeships, conceptual development across the disciplines, thinking through the use of literature, the impact of the media on thinking, the nature of the new classroom, developing the ability to read words, the bilingual, multicultural learner, crosscultural literacy, and reaching the special learner. The applications of higher level thought to classroom contexts and materials are provided, so that experienced teacher educators, and psychologists are able to implement some of the abstractions that are frequently dealt with in texts on cognition. Theoretical constructs are grounded in educational experience, giving the volume a practical dimension. Finally, appropriate concerns regarding the new media, hypertext, bilingualism, and multiculturalism as they reflect variation in cognitive experience within the contexts of learning are presented.

Author : Linda Murphy,Michelle Garcia Winner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1936943220

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Social Thinking and Me! by Linda Murphy,Michelle Garcia Winner Pdf

Introducing Social Thinking Vocabulary concepts to school-age children

Author : Yvonne Dittrich,Christiane Floyd,Ralf Klischewski
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262042045

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Social Thinking--software Practice by Yvonne Dittrich,Christiane Floyd,Ralf Klischewski Pdf

A collection of essays on the interrelationship of social science and software practice. Software practice--which includes software development, design, and use--needs to go beyond the traditional engineering framework. Drawing on a variety of social theory approaches, this book focuses on interdisciplinary cooperation in software practice. The topics discussed include the facilitation of collaborative software development, communication between developers and users, and the embedding of software systems in organizations.

Author : Philip Yenawine
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781612506111

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Visual Thinking Strategies by Philip Yenawine Pdf

"What’s going on in this picture?" With this one question and a carefully chosen work of art, teachers can start their students down a path toward deeper learning and other skills now encouraged by the Common Core State Standards. The Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) teaching method has been successfully implemented in schools, districts, and cultural institutions nationwide, including bilingual schools in California, West Orange Public Schools in New Jersey, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It provides for open-ended yet highly structured discussions of visual art, and significantly increases students’ critical thinking, language, and literacy skills along the way. Philip Yenawine, former education director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art and cocreator of the VTS curriculum, writes engagingly about his years of experience with elementary school students in the classroom. He reveals how VTS was developed and demonstrates how teachers are using art—as well as poems, primary documents, and other visual artifacts—to increase a variety of skills, including writing, listening, and speaking, across a range of subjects. The book shows how VTS can be easily and effectively integrated into elementary classroom lessons in just ten hours of a school year to create learner-centered environments where students at all levels are involved in rich, absorbing discussions.

Author : Michelle Garcia Winner
Publisher : Teaching Social Skills
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Autistic children
ISBN : 0970132042

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Think Social! by Michelle Garcia Winner Pdf

Includes detailed lessons, worksheets and vocabulary for a social skills curriculum for children.

Author : Anat Zohar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402018541

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Higher Order Thinking in Science Classrooms: Students’ Learning and Teachers’ Professional Development by Anat Zohar Pdf

How can educators bridge the gap between "big" ideas about teaching students to think and educational practice? This book addresses this question by a unique combination of theory, field experience and elaborate educational research. Its basic idea is to look at science instruction with regard to two sets of explicit goals: one set refers to teaching science concepts and the second set refers to teaching higher order thinking. This book tells about how thinking can be taught not only in the rare and unique conditions that are so typical of affluent experimental educational projects but also in the less privileged but much more common conditions of educational practice that most schools have to endure. It provides empirical evidence showing that students from all academic levels actually improve their thinking and their scientific knowledge following the thinking curricula, and discusses specific means for teaching higher order thinking to students with low academic achievements. The second part of the book addresses issues that pertain to teachers' professional development and to their knowledge and beliefs regarding the teaching of higher order thinking. This book is intended for a very large audience: researchers (including graduate students), curricular designers, practicing and pre-service teachers, college students, teacher educators and those interested in educational reform. Although the book is primarily about the development of thinking in science classrooms, most of it chapters may be of interest to educators from all disciplines.

Author : Garfield Gini-Newman,Roland Case
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506398440

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Creating Thinking Classrooms by Garfield Gini-Newman,Roland Case Pdf

Creating Thinking Classrooms is loaded with examples, stories and strategies for reinvigorating schools through quality thinking and reasoning.

Author : Bob Algozzine,Ann P. Daunic,Stephen W. Smith
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452295152

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Preventing Problem Behaviors by Bob Algozzine,Ann P. Daunic,Stephen W. Smith Pdf

"A wonderful tool for administrators and teachers that offers child-centered resources and ideas to help our learners succeed, thereby making our classrooms more effective. I especially love the sample behavior reports, progress monitoring charts, and the self-monitoring chart. Helping students see that they are responsible for their actions and making them partners in their education are effective practices." —Megan M. Allen, Fourth-Grade Teacher Cleveland Elementary School, Tampa, FL Prevention is the key to a successful school behavior plan! In today′s increasingly diverse PreK–12 classrooms, problem behaviors can often interrupt instructional time and disrupt learning. Designed for 21st-century school leaders, administrators, behavior specialists, and classroom teachers, this research-based guide offers specific strategies and plans for preventing problem behavior at both the classroom and school level. Based on the premise that early response to problems can lead to better outcomes for students, the book′s content is framed around four essential areas: foundations, intervention, collaboration, and evaluation. Within these areas, this accessible guide features: The latest information on the science and practice of prevention Reasons why conflict resolution, peer mediation, and bully-proofing are essential to prevention Effective practices for teaching social skills to young children Proven techniques for implementing schoolwide positive behavior support Tools for using individual behavior plans to prevent problems Ideas for home-school and community partnerships and culturally responsible teaching Critical strategies for monitoring student progress and evaluating prevention practices New, updated chapters, including information on preschool behavior support and RTI This valuable resource provides all the tools and strategies school leaders and teachers need to keep children focused on learning.

Author : Bill Burnett,Dave Evans
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781101875339

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Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett,Dave Evans Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage • “Life has questions. They have answers.” —The New York Times Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Tobacco and Peanuts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Export credit
ISBN : UCR:31210024920173

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Review of Export Promotion Credit Programs by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Tobacco and Peanuts Pdf

Author : Abraham J Twerski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-03
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781592858064

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Addictive Thinking by Abraham J Twerski Pdf

The unpredictability and anxiety associated with the coronavirus pandemic can cloud and confuse everybody's thinking. Excuses, self-deception and addictive logic can harm your recovery and relationships. Don't let it. Author Abraham Twerski reveals how self-deceptive thought can undermine self-esteem and threaten the sobriety of a recovering individuals and offers hope to those seeking a healthy and rewarding recovery. Abnormal thinking in addiction was originally recognized by members of Alcoholics Anonymous, who coined the term "stinking thinking." Addictive thinking often appears rational superficially, hence addicts as well as their family members are easily seduced by the attendant--and erroneous--reasoning process it can foster. In Addictive Thinking, author Abraham Twerski reveals how self-deceptive thought can undermine self-esteem and threaten the sobriety of a recovering individual. This timely revision of the original classic includes updated information and research on depression and affective disorders, the relationship between addictive thinking and relapse, and the origins of addictive thought. Ultimately, Addictive Thinking offers hope to those seeking a healthy and rewarding life recovery.