![]() For some packages, additional presenter resources are also suggested. In addition to the participant materials, the PowerPoint files with detailed presenter notes are available for each learning package. The Visible Learning learning package was rolled out in June 2015 as an overview of this effective teaching/learning practice. Click the links below to access preparatory reading, additional handouts and worksheets, practice profile, and fidelity checklist. Understand instructional behaviors and practices that have significant impact student achievement.Explore the effect size of various influences on student learning.Gain an awareness of those habits of mind and beliefs (mind frames) that contribute to positive impact on student learning.Now John Hattie returns to this ground-breaking work. Interest in the book was unparalleled it sold out in days and was described by the TES as revealing 'teaching’s Holy Grail'. Introduce and review John Hattie’s research around influences related to student achievement. When the original Visible Learning ® was published in 2008, it instantly became a publishing sensation. ![]() The “learning” aspect refers to how we go about knowing and understanding then doing something about student “learning”. “Visible” refers to making student learning visible to teachers, ensuring attributes that make a “visible” difference to student learning. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() He helped me realize that I was a narcissistic, deceptive person and helped me change that part of myself. This man has done more for me than I can even describe accurately. This follow-up is just as good, if not better, than 12 rules. ![]() When I first read 12 rules for life, it helped me find my true self. This man helped me save the amazing life I have! Beyond Order provides a call to balance these two fundamental principles of reality itself and guides us along the straight and narrow path that divides them. While chaos, in excess, threatens us with instability and anxiety, unchecked order can petrify us into submission. What’s more, he offers strategies for overcoming the cultural, scientific, and psychological forces causing us to tend toward tyranny, and teaches us how to rely instead on our instinct to find meaning and purpose, even - and especially - when we find ourselves powerless. In a time when the human will increasingly imposes itself over every sphere of life - from our social structures to our emotional states - Peterson warns that too much security is dangerous. Now, in this bold sequel, Peterson delivers 12 more lifesaving principles for resisting the exhausting toll that our desire to order the world inevitably takes. Peterson helped millions impose order on the chaos of their lives. In 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. The companion volume to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the perilous path of modern life. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() Adam broke Asimov’s first law of robots when he broke Charlie’s wrist and threatened to rip off his arm, but there was very little response to this by the characters.I didn’t like any of the characters – Charlie was a slacker.This was set in a time where autonomous cars had already been widespread and had failed due to something as basic as sunspots.The book raised the question, if you lived forever, would you commit suicide at some point? These AIs had a physical lifespan of 20 years, but many only lasted a few years before destroying themselves.Ian McEwan’s subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns of the power to invent things beyond our control. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever – a love triangle soon forms. With Miranda’s assistance, he co-designs Adam’s personality. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1938, her employer embarked on a downsizing spree and unfortunately, she was among the employees that were cut from the payroll. She would go on to work for at least a year with the Tribune and during this time, she also worked at the publication’s offices as a receptionist. ![]() Upon graduating from college, Kathleen Winsor got a job at the “Oakland Tribune,” in 1937 where she published a three-times-a-week sports column. ![]() In 1938 the author went to the University of California, Berkeley from where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. The author was born in Olivia, Minnesota in October 1919 and was the daughter of Myrtle Belle Winsor and Harold Lee.Īs a child, Kathleen spent most of her childhood in California in the United States. In fact, her novel is believed to have paved the way for the modern blockbuster novel that has become ubiquitous in the modern day. Kathleen Winsor was an American literary fiction novelist that made her name with the publishing of the blockbuster novel “Forever Amber.” ![]() ![]() Interactions should not primarily be for personal benefit. Interact with the community in good faith. Respect for members and creators shall extend to every interaction. Visionīuild a reputation for inclusive, welcoming dialogue where creators and fans of all types of speculative fiction mingle. ![]() We reserve the right to remove discussion that does not fulfill the mission of /r/Fantasy. We welcome respectful dialogue related to speculative fiction in literature, games, film, and the wider world. r/Fantasy is the internet’s largest discussion forum for the greater Speculative Fiction genre. ![]() For updated information regarding ongoing community features, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() ![]() Have you ever written books based on your own experience or do you prefer to draw from other sources of inspiration? I still get this kind of criticism and I adore it. Later on I received huge amounts of useful criticism – ideas about how make my work better, given with respect for and interest in my projects – from editors and colleagues. The teacher didn't read my final stories because he said I was a "B student" and he knew it without reading them. I took one college fiction writing class and got a B. You mention you wrote your first novels in the third grade! How has your writing progressed since then and have you ever received criticism along the way? Some days I make something I am proud to have made. I especially like writers who aggressively use stylized language to create a unique world. ![]() I am inspired by writers of the Spiderman comic books, Monty Python, Evelyn Waugh, John Irving, and Alice Walker, among many, many others. ![]() I used to sit in the back of theaters and watch rehearsals, seeing how a story changed with revisions, cuts, changes in tone, lighting and inflictions. How did you discover your passion for writing? ![]() ![]() Humanity has conquered illness and disease, age and decay. How did I get this book: Review Copy from the Publisher ![]() Stand alone or series: Book 1 in the Arc of a Scythe series And when it becomes clear that the winning apprentice’s first task will be to glean the loser, Citra and Rowan are pitted against one another in a fight for their lives. Only one of them will be chosen as a scythe’s apprentice. Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythe’s apprentices, and-despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation-they must learn the art of killing and come to understand the necessity of what they do. In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed (“gleaned”) by professional reapers (“scythes”). ![]() Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Genre: Horror, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Young Adult ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a good thing for me to note as I head into NaNoWriMo. The characters - The 5 DHIs seemed underdeveloped. ![]() ![]() This gripping high-tech tale will thrill every kid who has ever dreamed of sneaking into Walt Disney World after hours, and wondered what happens at night, when the park is closed.ġ. Led by the scheming witch Maleficent, a mysterious group of characters called the Overtakers is plotting to destroy Disney's beloved realm, and maybe more. Is it real? Is he dreaming?įinn's confusion only increases when he encounters Wayne, an elderly Imagineer who tells him that the park is in grave danger. Soon Finn finds himself transported in his DHI form into the Magic Kingdom at night. The new technology turns out, however, to have unexpected effects that are both thrilling and scary. ![]() Using a cutting-edge technology called DHI-which stands for both Disney Host Interactive and Daylight Hologram Imaging-Finn Whitman, an Orlando teen, and four other kids are transformed into hologram projections that guide guests through the park. In this fantastical thriller, five young teens tapped as models for theme park "guides" find themselves pitted against Disney villains and witches that threaten both the future of Walt Disney World and the stability of the world outside its walls. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you want to know more about Julia AND Paul before The French Chef and after the peak of that series, this is a great book. If you want a glowing biography that shows this icon in an unfailingly positive light, this is NOT the book for you. A thorough, surprising, affectionate, and extraordinarily entertaining account of a truly remarkable life. Spitz chronicles Julia's friendships, her struggles, her heartwarming romance with Paul, and of course, the story of the publication of Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her triumphant TV career. ![]() There might not be a Food Network or even a PBS if Julia had not blazed the trail. ![]() He takes us beyond the image of Julia as the tall, eccentric woman with a funny voice who taught America how to cook, to establish her as a genuine rebel and beloved icon, a woman who redefined herself in middle age, helped to change the role of women in America, set the standard for how to create a public personality in the modern media world, and altered the way America eats and thinks of food. The definitive biography of Julia Child - with access to Julia's diaries and letters - written by the author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed The Beatles and timed to Julia's 100th birthday.įrom Pasadena to Cambridge to New York, Washington, D.C., India, Ceylon, Paris, Marseilles, Santa Barbara, and Maine, Bob Spitz re-creates an extraordinary life. ![]() |