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In every era, global progressive thinkers have used creativity as a
means for cultural reformation and social justice in response to
oppressive regimes. For example, theater, cartoons, social art,
film, and other forms of representative arts have always been used
as critical instigation to create agency or critical commentary on
current affairs. In the education sector, teachers in schools often
say one of two things: they are not creative or that they don't
have the time to be creative given the curricular demands and
administrative mandates that they are required to follow. Each day,
educators are working to find exceptionally creative ways to engage
their students with limited resources and supplies, and this
becomes even more of a challenge during turbulent times. Creativity
as Progressive Pedagogy: Examinations Into Culture, Performance,
and Challenges primarily focuses on pedagogical creativity and
culture as related to various aspects of social justice and
identity. This book presents experience-based content and showcases
the necessity for pedagogical creativity to give students agency
and the connections between cultural sensitivity and creativity.
Covering topics such as the social capital gap, digital spaces, and
underprivileged students, this book is an indispensable resource
for educators in both K-12 and higher education, administrators,
researchers, faculty, policymakers, leaders in education,
pre-service teachers, and academicians.
We are facing a future of unbounded complexity. Whether that
complexity is harnessed to build a world that is safe, pleasant,
humane and profitable, or whether it causes us to careen off a
cliff into an abyss of mind-numbing junk is an open question. The
challenges and opportunities--technical, business, and human--that
this technological sea change will bring are without precedent.
Entire industries will be born and others will be laid to ruin as
our society navigates this journey.
There are already many more computing devices in the world than
there are people. In a few more years, their number will climb into
the trillions. We put microprocessors into nearly every significant
thing that we manufacture, and the cost of routine computing and
storage is rapidly becoming negligible. We have literally permeated
our world with computation. But more significant than mere numbers
is the fact we are quickly figuring out how to make those
processors communicate with each other, and with us. We are about
to be faced, not with a trillion isolated devices, but with a
"trillion-node network" a network whose scale and complexity will
dwarf that of today's Internet. And, unlike the Internet, this will
be a network not of computation that we "use," but of computation
that we "live in."
Written by the leaders of one of America's leading pervasive
computing design firms, this book gives a no-holds-barred insiders'
account of both the promise and the risks of the age of Trillions.
It is also a cautionary tale of the head-in-the-sand attitude with
which many of today's thought-leaders are at present approaching
these issues. "Trillions "is a field guide to the future--designed
to help businesses and their customers prepare to prosper, "in" the
information.
It has quickly become apparent in the past year that online
learning is not only an asset, but it is critical to the continued
education of youth during times of crisis. However, districts and
schools across the nation are in need of guidance and practical,
research-backed approaches to distance and hybrid learning. The
current COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated that effective learning in
K-12 is possible, but many districts struggled and continue to
struggle in achieving that reality. There is also the growing
consensus that even if things ""return to normal,"" distance and
blended learning strategies should continue to be employed in many
ways across the K-12 environment. Designing Effective Distance and
Blended Learning Environments in K-12 provides key insights into
the ways that school districts and educators from across the world
have effectively designed and implemented distance and blended
learning approaches to enable and enhance student learning. The
diverse collection of authors from various demographics and roles
in school systems will benefit readers across a wide spectrum of
school community stakeholders. There will also be an emphasis on
how research and theory is put into practice, along with an honest
discussion of what strategies and actions were successful as well
as those that were less so. This book is essential for
professionals and researchers working in the field of K-12
education, particularly superintendents, curriculum developers,
professional learning designers, school principals, instructional
technology specialists, and teachers, as well as administrators,
researchers, academicians, and students interested in the effective
practices being used in blended learning approaches.
The increasingly pervasive use of digital technology has catapulted
society into an interconnected world where the natural boundaries
between humankind and machine, virtual and real, individual and
community have become less perceptible. As individuals interact
with different digital technologies, they must build a digital
intelligence, which must be further cultivated as it is a key
competency for the future of school and work. Digital intelligence
includes understanding the mutual strengths between people and
technology, as well as developing an awareness in the use of
digital tools in order to avoid common threats such as
cyberbullying, addiction to video games, techno-stress, and more.
As adolescents continue to engage with virtual reality and 3D
virtual worlds where the online and offline overlap and coincide,
it is important to build this intelligence as well as utilize these
technologies to promote successful learning. The Handbook of
Research on Teaching With Virtual Environments and AI explores the
new personalized educational opportunities that are available with
digital technology and virtual environments that can be used within
education. This book focuses on the use of these tools and how to
navigate the use of new technologies such as AI and virtual
environments for educational practices. While highlighting topics
such as virtual worlds, game-based learning, intelligent tutoring,
augmented reality, and more, this book is ideal for teachers,
administrators, technologists, educational software developers, IT
specialists, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students
interested in how virtual environments and AI are being implemented
in teaching practices.
Work with business scenarios and discover best practices to get the
most out of Microsoft Forms and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer
Voice Key Features Explore step-by-step instructions to integrate
surveys with Microsoft 365 apps Automate surveys and follow-up
actions from survey results using Microsoft Forms Create custom
report dashboards and explore advanced analytics for managing
insights Book DescriptionMicrosoft Forms and Dynamics 365 Customer
Voice enable organizations to collect and analyze feedback from
employees and customers, helping developers to integrate their
feedback and business users to collect feedback that will guide
them to develop customer-centric solutions. This book takes a
hands-on approach to leveraging Microsoft Forms and Dynamics 365
Customer Voice capabilities for common feedback scenarios and
covers best practices and tips and tricks to have your solution up
and running in no time. You'll start by exploring common scenarios
where organizations collect feedback from employees and customers
and implement end-to-end solutions with Forms. You'll then discover
how to create surveys and get to grips with different configuration
options commonly used for each scenario. Throughout the book,
you'll also find sample questions and step-by-step instructions for
integrating the survey with related technology such as Microsoft
Teams, Power Automate, and Power BI for an end-to-end scenario. By
the end of this Microsoft book, you'll be able to build and deploy
your complete solution using Microsoft Forms and Dynamics 365
Customer Voice, allowing you to listen to customers or employees,
interpret their feedback, take timely follow-up action, and monitor
results. What you will learn Get up and running with Microsoft
Forms and Dynamics 365 Customer Voice services Explore common
feedback scenarios and survey best practices Understand how to
administer Microsoft Forms and Dynamics 365 Customer Voice Use
Microsoft Forms or Dynamics 365 Customer Voice to monitor your
survey results Set up the Microsoft Forms app for Teams for
conducting live polls Automate feedback collection and follow-up
actions Who this book is forThis book is for business users who
want to increase customer and employee engagement and collect data
for measuring user satisfaction and driving product and process
improvements. Beginner-level knowledge of Microsoft products such
as Office 365 (including Teams, Outlook, and Excel) is expected.
The book also includes advanced topics for citizen developers to
automate sending Customer Voice surveys, follow-up actions, and
creating custom dashboards using Microsoft Power Platform
applications like Power Automate and Power BI.
Build interactive courses for online learning using Google's
learning management solution Key Features Discover best practices
for developing a creative educational experience using the features
of Google Classroom Get to grips with the modern features of Google
Classroom that can help you meet the demands of online teaching
Create online courses and deliver classes in an interactive manner
Book DescriptionGoogle Classroom is designed to help you manage and
deliver online and in-person courses in an interactive manner.
Using Google Classroom saves time organizing and communicating
information to students and parents. This updated second edition of
Teaching with Google Classroom covers the modern features of Google
Classroom that meet the current needs of online teaching. The book
is written from the high-school perspective but is applicable to
teachers and educators of all age groups. If you're new to Google
Classroom or an experienced user who wants to explore more advanced
methods with Google Classroom, this book is for you. With hands-on
tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, you'll learn
how to create classes, add students to those classes, send
announcements, and assign classwork. The book also demonstrates how
to start an online discussion with your students. Later, you'll
discover how you can involve parents by inviting them to receive
guardian emails and sharing Google Calendar with a URL. This will
help them to view assignment deadlines and other important
information. The book goes step by step through all the features
available and examples of how best to use them to manage your
classroom. By the end of this book, you'll be able to do more with
Google Classroom, managing your online or in-person school classes
effectively. What you will learn Create a classroom and add
customized information for each individual class Send announcements
and questions to students Create, distribute, collect, and grade
assignments through Google Classroom Link student accounts to
guardian emails for daily or weekly updates Use Google Forms to
create quizzes that automatically grade and return results to
students Reuse posts, archive classrooms, and perform other
administrative tasks in Google Classroom Host online sessions with
students and set up Google Classroom's mobile app Who this book is
forThis Google Classroom book is written by an educator, for
educators. It's for anyone who wants to teach effectively with
Google Classroom. There are rich examples, clear instructions, and
enlightening explanations to help you put this platform to work.
This book encompasses a systematic exploration of Cybersecurity
Data Science (CSDS) as an emerging profession, focusing on current
versus idealized practice. This book also analyzes challenges
facing the emerging CSDS profession, diagnoses key gaps, and
prescribes treatments to facilitate advancement. Grounded in the
management of information systems (MIS) discipline, insights derive
from literature analysis and interviews with 50 global CSDS
practitioners. CSDS as a diagnostic process grounded in the
scientific method is emphasized throughout Cybersecurity Data
Science (CSDS) is a rapidly evolving discipline which applies data
science methods to cybersecurity challenges. CSDS reflects the
rising interest in applying data-focused statistical, analytical,
and machine learning-driven methods to address growing security
gaps. This book offers a systematic assessment of the developing
domain. Advocacy is provided to strengthen professional rigor and
best practices in the emerging CSDS profession. This book will be
of interest to a range of professionals associated with
cybersecurity and data science, spanning practitioner, commercial,
public sector, and academic domains. Best practices framed will be
of interest to CSDS practitioners, security professionals, risk
management stewards, and institutional stakeholders. Organizational
and industry perspectives will be of interest to cybersecurity
analysts, managers, planners, strategists, and regulators. Research
professionals and academics are presented with a systematic
analysis of the CSDS field, including an overview of the state of
the art, a structured evaluation of key challenges, recommended
best practices, and an extensive bibliography.
The book studies artificial intelligence as a new reality and a
perspective direction for the modern economy's development, as well
as its future technological basis. The book forms a meta-scientific
approach to studying AI, which allows uniting the efforts of
scholars from different spheres of science for formation of a
comprehensive idea of AI. The book reflects the meta-scientific
approach to the balanced use of human and artificial intelligence
and the features of successful development of the information
economy under the conditions of technological progress based on
artificial intelligence. It describes the implementation of the
subject approach in psychology and pedagogy based on artificial
intelligence and reflects the political and legal aspects of
creating, implementing and developing artificial intelligence. The
impact of artificial intelligence on the economy and financial
services is considered, and modernization of management of
production and distribution processes and systems based on AI are
studied. The target audience of the book includes scholars from
different spheres of science who study AI, companies interested in
implementation of AI, and government that regulates the issues of
development and use of AI.
Quickly build and deploy massive data pipelines and improve
productivity using Azure Databricks Key Features Get to grips with
the distributed training and deployment of machine learning and
deep learning models Learn how ETLs are integrated with Azure Data
Factory and Delta Lake Explore deep learning and machine learning
models in a distributed computing infrastructure Book
DescriptionMicrosoft Azure Databricks helps you to harness the
power of distributed computing and apply it to create robust data
pipelines, along with training and deploying machine learning and
deep learning models. Databricks' advanced features enable
developers to process, transform, and explore data. Distributed
Data Systems with Azure Databricks will help you to put your
knowledge of Databricks to work to create big data pipelines. The
book provides a hands-on approach to implementing Azure Databricks
and its associated methodologies that will make you productive in
no time. Complete with detailed explanations of essential concepts,
practical examples, and self-assessment questions, you'll begin
with a quick introduction to Databricks core functionalities,
before performing distributed model training and inference using
TensorFlow and Spark MLlib. As you advance, you'll explore MLflow
Model Serving on Azure Databricks and implement distributed
training pipelines using HorovodRunner in Databricks. Finally,
you'll discover how to transform, use, and obtain insights from
massive amounts of data to train predictive models and create
entire fully working data pipelines. By the end of this MS Azure
book, you'll have gained a solid understanding of how to work with
Databricks to create and manage an entire big data pipeline. What
you will learn Create ETLs for big data in Azure Databricks Train,
manage, and deploy machine learning and deep learning models
Integrate Databricks with Azure Data Factory for extract,
transform, load (ETL) pipeline creation Discover how to use Horovod
for distributed deep learning Find out how to use Delta Engine to
query and process data from Delta Lake Understand how to use Data
Factory in combination with Databricks Use Structured Streaming in
a production-like environment Who this book is forThis book is for
software engineers, machine learning engineers, data scientists,
and data engineers who are new to Azure Databricks and want to
build high-quality data pipelines without worrying about
infrastructure. Knowledge of Azure Databricks basics is required to
learn the concepts covered in this book more effectively. A basic
understanding of machine learning concepts and beginner-level
Python programming knowledge is also recommended.
Design Science Research is a powerful paradigm enabling researchers
to make important contributions to society and industry. Simply
stated, the goal of DSR is to generate knowledge on how to find
innovative solutions to important problems in the form of models,
methods, constructs and instantiations. Over the past 20 years, the
design science research (DSR) paradigm has developed into an
established paradigm in Information Systems Research and it is of
strong uptake in many other disciplines, including Management
Science and Computer Science. This book provides a collection of
twelve DSR cases, presented by experienced researchers in the
field. It offers readers access to real-world DSR studies, together
with the authors' reflections on their research processes. These
cases will support researchers who want to engage in DSR, and
represent a valuable addition to existing introductions to DSR
methods and processes. Readers will learn from the hands-on
experiences of respected experts who have conducted extensive DSR
in a range of application contexts.
This book includes the proceedings of the second workshop on
recommender systems in fashion and retail (2020), and it aims to
present a state-of-the-art view of the advancements within the
field of recommendation systems with focused application to
e-commerce, retail, and fashion by presenting readers with chapters
covering contributions from academic as well as industrial
researchers active within this emerging new field. Recommender
systems are often used to solve different complex problems in this
scenario, such as product recommendations, or size and fit
recommendations, and social media-influenced recommendations
(outfits worn by influencers).
Harness the power of LaTeX and its wide range of features to create
professional-looking text, articles, and books with both online and
offline capabilities of LaTeX Key Features Get a hands-on
introduction to LaTeX using fully explained examples to advance
from beginner to LaTeX professional quickly Write impressive
mathematical, scientific, and business papers or theses using LaTeX
Explore LaTeX online Book DescriptionLaTeX is high-quality open
source typesetting software that produces professional prints and
PDF files. It's a powerful and complex tool with a multitude of
features, so getting started can be intimidating. However, once you
become comfortable with LaTeX, its capabilities far outweigh any
initial challenges, and this book will help you with just that! The
LaTeX Beginner's Guide will make getting started with LaTeX easy.
If you are writing mathematical, scientific, or business papers, or
have a thesis to write, this is the perfect book for you. With the
help of fully explained examples, this book offers a practical
introduction to LaTeX with plenty of step-by-step examples that
will help you achieve professional-level results in no time. You'll
learn to typeset documents containing tables, figures, formulas,
and common book elements such as bibliographies, glossaries, and
indexes, and go on to manage complex documents and use modern PDF
features. You'll also get to grips with using macros and styles to
maintain a consistent document structure while saving typing work.
By the end of this LaTeX book, you'll have learned how to fine-tune
text and page layout, create professional-looking tables, include
figures, present complex mathematical formulas, manage complex
documents, and benefit from modern PDF features. What you will
learn Make the most of LaTeX's powerful features to produce
professionally designed texts Download, install, and set up LaTeX
and use additional styles, templates, and tools Typeset math
formulas and scientific expressions to the highest standards
Understand how to include graphics and work with figures and tables
Discover professional fonts and modern PDF features Work with book
elements such as bibliographies, glossaries, and indexes Typeset
documents containing tables, figures, and formulas Who this book is
forIf you are about to write mathematical or scientific papers,
seminar handouts, or even plan to write a thesis, this book offers
you a fast-paced and practical introduction to LaTeX. School and
university students will find this easy-to-follow LaTeX guide
helpful, as will mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and
humanists. Anybody with high expectations from their software will
discover how easy it is to leverage LaTeX's high performance for
creating documents.
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