A book guide to introduce the book and the author in four sessions with mini-lessons on vocabulary, compare and contrast, preview and predict, questions for stimulating classroom conversation and comprehension, and ideas for journal writing.
It is this critical moment, with its wide-ranging implications, that Robert Carlson considers in Biology Is Technology.
Everyday Technology is a pioneering account of how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of everyday use in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
This volume compiles those observations, putting together case histories and new reflections for a fascinating study of how people and technology affect one another.
The problem is when we let it take over our lives. This book will help kids and grownups alike reflect on their relationships with technology and learn to embrace the benefits of being unplugged."--Back cover
Who will wield this power of digital influence? And to what end? Now is the time to survey the issues and explore the principles of persuasive technology, and B.J. Fogg has written this book to be your guide.
... on Microsoft Office and a word processing course that focused on advanced applications in Microsoft Word. Throughout the course she learned a great deal about how to use the Microsoft Office suite and found the online courses to be ...
Moreover, they found that both the yield strength and hardness varied as the inverse square root of grain diameter, i.e. followed the Hall–Petch relationship [249, 250], which is σys = σo + kd−12 (4.12) where σxy is the yield strength, ...
Technology, vol. 1 (Greenwich, Conn, JAI Press, 1978), pp. 229–294. Mitcham's philosophy of engineering is concentrated in section 2, technology-as-process, and in a lengthy series of footnotes. * Ronald Laymon, “Applying Idealized ...
The program's research supervisor was J. Francis Reintjes, who documented the research activities at MIT in his book. See Reintjes (1991). * Much of the information in this paragraph was taken from Romeo (1975).
NOTES 1 For a description of the origins of the TA movement, see Porter, A., Rossini, F., Carpenter, S., and Roper, A. A Guidebook for Technology Assessment and Impact Analysis (New York: North Holland, 1980), esp. Chapter 3.