Download or read book Unusual and Awesome Jobs Using Technology written by Linda LeBoutillier and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover fascinating facts, figures, and pictures while learning about the most interesting and extreme jobs that use technology. Find out what kind of training it takes be a roller coaster designer, how much money a space robotics engineer makes, and exactly what in the world a wind turbine technician does! Working the most extreme and interesting job in the world also often comes with a paycheck! Punch in to see how fascinating jobs in the fields of science, math, sports, and technology really work. Book jacket.
Download or read book Unusual and Awesome Jobs Using Science written by Jennifer Wendinger and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating facts, figures, and pictures highlight informative text about some of the most interesting and extreme jobs that use science. Young readers will learn what kind of training it takes to be a food taster, how much money a human lie detector makes, and what exactly a professional beard grower does!
Download or read book Unusual and Awesome Jobs Using Math written by Lisa M. Bolt Simons and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating facts, figures, and pictures highlight informative text about some of the most interesting and extreme jobs that use math. Young readers will learn what kind of training it takes to be a stunt coordinator, how much money a cryptologist makes, and what exactly a fluid mechanics engineer does, all while discovering how math is involved in each of these exciting jobs.
Download or read book Creating a Tween Collection written by Karen M. Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specialized collections for tweens, or middle schoolers, are relatively new and becoming increasingly popular. This Practical Guide gives librarians everything they need to create such a collection. Beginning with a brief description of the early adolescent brain and developmental stages, and a history of youth and teen services in libraries, Creating a Tween Collection provides a solid foundation on which librarians can build support for such a collection. In addition, librarians will be given specific criteria for what constitutes “tween literature,” guidelines for forming parameters that will work for their community, and suggestions for using reviews and other sources in selecting appropriate materials and dealing with controversial titles. Finally, readers will learn how to re-allocate spaces and budgets, and how to market their new collection to patrons. This is a must-read for librarians who are looking to build a middle school collection in order to better serve their patrons. This book: - Provides rationale about the importance of a specialized Tween Collection. - Gives specific examples for both fiction and nonfiction books, databases and websites. - Provides guidance for creating diverse collections and tips for dealing with possible challenges. - Includes numerous case studies and booklists
Download or read book STEM Careers Enhancing Engineering written by Wendy Conklin and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Imagine living on the moon or riding in a self-driving car. Engineers are working to make these things realities! Right now, engineers are designing things that affect our everyday lives. You can thank an engineer for your phone, lights in your home, and your transportation to school. The work that engineers do influences almost everything around us and helps to solve problems for people around the world."--
Download or read book Robotics Engineering written by Ed Sobey and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robotics is one of the hottest fields in STEM curriculum. Open students' eyes to the field of professional robotic engineers. Readers will learn the basics from a real-life expert and get some hands-on epxperience all in a digital format.
Download or read book STEM Careers Enhancing Engineering 6 Pack written by Wendy Conklin and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine riding in a self-driving car or taking a trip around the moon. Engineers are working on making these ideas realities! Learn all about the fascinating field of engineering with this nonfiction title that builds critical literacy skills and STEM content knowledge. Featuring TIME content, this purposefully leveled text was developed by Timothy Rasinski, a leading expert in reading research. The intriguing sidebars feature fun facts that challenge students to think more deeply about the topics and develop higher-order thinking. Informational text features include a table of contents, captions, bold font, an extensive glossary, and a detailed index to deepen understanding and build academic vocabulary. The Try It! culminating activity requires students to connect back to the text, and the Reader's Guide provides opportunities for additional language-development activities. Aligned with McREL, WIDA/TESOL, and state standards, this title readies students for college and career. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.
Download or read book How a Roller Coaster Is Built written by Kate Mikoley and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2020 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who has visited an amusement park has likely seen the hills and loops of a roller coaster. For those who have felt the thrill of the ride, it's often the excitement of that first drop or the speed that follows that keeps them coming back for more. Before anyone can experience the adventure of a roller coaster, a lot of hard work must go into building it. Readers of this high-interest resource will learn all about the science and mechanics behind the construction of roller coasters. Aspiring engineers and amusement park enthusiasts alike will be captivated by this informative volume.
Download or read book Freaky Jobs written by Diane Lindsey Reeves and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it's cracking super codes or cloning human genes, serving insects for an entrée or leaping through a hoop of fire in the center ring, a wide variety of out-of-the-ordinary careers awaits anyone quirky enough to pursue them.
Download or read book Odd Jobs written by Simon Kent and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume answers that annoying question: "Oh yeah, and who's going to pay you to do that?" Odd Jobs offers advice on jobs which many will not have considered or dismissed as too fanciful. Grouped into logical sections the book provides a wealth of ideas, job descriptions and contact points.
Download or read book Technology and Adolescent Health written by Megan A. Moreno and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology and Adolescent Health: In Schools and Beyond discusses how today's adolescents are digital natives, using technology at home and in school to access information, for entertainment, to socialize and do schoolwork. This book summarizes research on how technology use impacts adolescent mental health, sleep, physical activity and eating habits. In addition, it identifies monitoring and screening technology-based tools for use with adolescents. - Summarizes the effects of digital technology use on adolescent mental health - Advises on best practices for adolescent technology use in home and schools - Identifies digital tools to monitor adolescent health - Includes effects on sleep, addiction, socialization, eating and exercise habits - Provides both the positive and negative consequences of technology use
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Technology and Employee Behavior written by Richard N. Landers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 1435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts from across all industrial-organizational (IO) psychology describe how increasingly rapid technological change has affected the field. In each chapter, authors describe how this has altered the meaning of IO research within a particular subdomain and what steps must be taken to avoid IO research from becoming obsolete. This Handbook presents a forward-looking review of IO psychology's understanding of both workplace technology and how technology is used in IO research methods. Using interdisciplinary perspectives to further this understanding and serving as a focal text from which this research will grow, it tackles three main questions facing the field. First, how has technology affected IO psychological theory and practice to date? Second, given the current trends in both research and practice, could IO psychological theories be rendered obsolete? Third, what are the highest priorities for both research and practice to ensure IO psychology remains appropriately engaged with technology moving forward?
Download or read book Building an Outstanding Workforce written by Paul Aldrich and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world, achieving sustainable competitive advantage has never been more important, or more difficult. However, the key challenge for CEOs, senior executives and HR professionals is how to unlock the potential of their people, building a culture that allows employees to perform to the best of their abilities and effectively attract, engage, develop and retain the staff needed for sustainable business success. Building an Outstanding Workforce is a must-have guide for all professionals looking to leverage the potential of their people and maximise value for all stakeholders. Including evolutionary psychology, neuroscience and personality psychology, this book takes an evidence-based approach to people management. With practical guidance, expert advice and case studies from companies including Alibaba, Barclays Banking Group, Patagonia, Tata Group and Qantas, Building an Outstanding Workforce covers all the key issues including how to tailor people management to address the motivations of different generations, the impact of emergent technology on the workforce, the shift in the skills employees now need to learn and develop and how to handle the new challenges of remote and flexible working and the gig economy. There is also essential coverage of strategic workforce planning, people risk, people analytics, human capital reporting, the employer brand and employee value proposition and the benefits of embracing diversity and inclusion, well-being and other aspects of corporate and social responsibility. It presents a new people-focused framework for people management that redefines the structure, roles and responsibilities of human resource management and addresses the problems of role ambiguity and conflict associated with HR to deliver people management that everyone needs and deserves.
Download or read book Design of Multimodal Mobile Interfaces written by Nava Shaked and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “smart mobile” has become an essential and inseparable part of our lives. This powerful tool enables us to perform multi-tasks in different modalities of voice, text, gesture, etc. The user plays an important role in the mode of operation, so multimodal interaction provides the user with new complex multiple modalities of interfacing with a system, such as speech, touch, type and more. The book will discuss the new world of mobile multimodality, focusing on innovative technologies and design which create a state-of-the-art user interface. It will examine the practical challenges entailed in meeting commercial deployment goals, and offer new approaches to the designing such interfaces. A multimodal interface for mobile devices requires the integration of several recognition technologies together with sophisticated user interface and distinct tools for input and output of data. The book will address the challenge of designing devices in a synergetic fashion which does not burden the user or to create a technological overload.
Download or read book Developing Organizational Simulations written by George C. Thornton III and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Developing Organizational Simulations provides a concise source of information on effective and practical methods for constructing simulation exercises for the assessment of psychological characteristics relevant to effectiveness in work organizations. Incorporating new additions such as the multiple ways technology can be used in the design, delivery, scoring, and evaluating of simulation exercises, as well as the delivery of feedback based on the results, this book is user-friendly with practical how-to guidance, including many graphics, boxes, and examples. This book is ideal for practitioners, consultants, HR specialists, students, and researchers in need of guidance developing organizational simulations for personnel selection, promotion, diagnosis, training, or research. It is also suited for courses, workshops, and training programs in testing and measurement, personnel selection, training and development, and research methodology.
Download or read book Technology and the Politics of Instruction written by Jan Nespor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of computer-mediated instruction (CMI) in a U.S. research university that is the site of nationally known innovations in this area, Jan Nespor traces the varying material and organizational entanglements of a constantly reconfiguring network of people, things, categories, and ideas that are sometimes loosely, sometimes tightly entangled in forms of CMI. He unfolds how the different forms and meanings of CMI policy and practice were constructed over time, across departments, and in relation to students’ academic trajectories. Tying together a range of issues usually separated in discussions of instructional technology and examining often slighted topics, such as the articulations of local and national practices, this book questions the common vocabulary for making sense of CMI and contributes to educational change theory by showing how CMI has evolved both from the top-down and the bottom-up. Technology and the Politics of Instruction is distinctive in its multi-level approach and in the breadth of its conceptual frame. Departing from the mainstream research on instructional technology to focus on mundane and widespread forms of CMI—PowerPoint slides, CD-ROMs, self-paced labs, and the like—Nespor views these from multiple standpoints, not just what they mean for professors, but also for administrators and students. The effect is to displace the typical emphasis in CMI research from cutting-edge, high resource artifacts and systems (the importance of which is not questioned) to the politics and organizational processes that shape the uses of such things. This book is intended primarily for scholars and students in the fields of educational and more broadly organizational change, the politics and sociology of education, curriculum theory, higher education, and educational administration, and will also interest instructional technologists and technology developers.
Download or read book The Magic in the Space Between How a unique mentoring programme is transforming women s leadership written by Hilary Wigston and published by John Catt. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to a challenge posed by state and independent school leaders, Ian Wigston put together a team of experienced leaders from business, the public sector and the military to enable nearly a hundred women to explore their potential for school leadership. The Magic in the Space Between explores how mentoring, in tandem with a variety of innovative community projects undertaken by the women, provided a platform for each of them to develop a range of skills which saw more than a quarter achieve promotion within two years. As well as telling the stories of individual success, frequently challenging their own assumptions, the book includes contributions from former Schools Minister David Laws, actor Juliet Stevenson and Commodore Mel Robinson, one of the most senior women in the Navy. The book concludes with proposals to address the continuing problem of building a pipeline of future women’s leadership in education.
