For introductory courses in computer concepts or computer literacy often including instruction in Microsoft Office. A Computer Concepts Text Focused on Today's Student! Technology in Action engages students by combining a unique teaching approach with rich companion media.
The question-and-answer presentation of the material throughout the text will hold your attention by engaging you in a constant dialogue with the authors.
Designed for today's technically savvy students, the text introduces difficult concepts at a basic level early on, then expands upon these skills as students build mastery.
For introductory courses in computer concepts, digital literacy, or computer literacy, often including instruction in Microsoft Office.
This book seeks to explore these issues through a series of video-based field studies.
From weaker to stronger rhetoric : literature - Laboratories - From weak points to strongholds : machines - Insiders out - From short to longer networks : tribunals of reason - Centres of calculation.
The theories, presented in accessible language, illuminate the implicit patterns in these stories. This book demonstrates how and why these technologies are used under myriad circumstances.
Like teaching itself, integrating technology into educational practice is challenging work, full of exciting opportunities and complex problems.
See Albert H. Cantril and Charles W. Roll, Jr., Hopes and Fears of the American People (New York, 1971), pp. 19 and 23; Nicholas Rescher, “A Questionnaire Study of American Values by 2000 A.D.,” in Values and the Future, ed.
This book takes the interface – or rather to interface, a process rather than a discrete object or location – as a concept emblematic of our contemporary embodied relationship with technological artefacts.
Informatics: Technology In Action