New Scientist is a weekly international science magazine and website covering recent developments in science and technology for a general English-speaking audience.
Educational technology is not new. Almost as long as there have been teachers, there have been instructional tools to help students learn. Clay slates, the abacus, pencils and pens, typewriters, overhead projectors, computers, and finally, the internet, mobile phones, and social networks- there has been an ever accelerating cycle of innovation in teaching tools, yet the classroom challenges have remained essentially the same: how do we ‘reach’ our students? How can we challenge them and motivate them to think for themselves? How can we use the tools at our disposal to improve the classroom experience?
BC Science 8 - 10, the most popular junior high science resource in British Columbia, provides current, relevant, and rigorous content that stresses science process skill development, mastery of knowledge outcomes, and the connections between science, technology, society, and the environment.
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other? By : Sherry Turkle
With the recent explosion of increasingly sophisticated cell-phone technology and social networking websites like Twitter and Facebook, a casual observer might understandably conclude that human relationships are blossoming like never before. But according to MIT science professor Turkle, that assumption would be sadly wrong. In the third and final volume of a trilogy dissecting the interface between humans and technology, Turkle suggests that we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.
Babylon McGraw-Hill Dictionary and Encyclopedia of Science and TechnologyBabylon McGraw-Hill Dictionary and Encyclopedia of Science and Technology In many libraries, theEncyclopedia of Science and Technology is the first source patrons consult when beginning background research on a scientific topic. Written by an outstanding international team of 500 subject experts, including 25 Nobel Prize winners, this encyclopedia is aimed at a nonspecialist audience. ... New to this edition is a free companion Web site that offers updates of a few critical articles. The strengths of this encyclopedia are authoritative content written at a level accessible to the student or layperson and the exceptionally broad range of topics from every field of modern science and technology.
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