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  • Story Listening and Experience in Early Childhood

    by Donna Schatt, Patrick Ryan ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book shows connections between oral story listening and unique, enduring educational effects in and outside of the classroom. Using scientific studies and interviews, as well as personal observations from more than thirty years in schools and libraries, the authors examine learning outcomes from frequent story listening. Throughout the book, Schatt and Ryan illustrate that experiencing ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

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  • The Extended Mind

    The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

    by Annie Murphy Paul ...
    **A New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2021A New York Times Notable BookA bold new book reveals how we can tap the intelligence that exists beyond our brains—in our bodies, our surroundings, and our relationships**Use your head.That’s what we tell ourselves when facing a tricky problem or a difficult project. But a growing body of research indicates that we’ve ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Alignment Problem

    Machine Learning and Human Values

    by Brian Christian ...
    **"If you’re going to read one book on artificial intelligence, this is the one." —Stephen Marche, New York TimesA jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement to fix them.**Today’s “machine-learning” systems, trained by data, are so effective that we’ve invited them to see and hear for us—and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ... Read more

    $20.59 CAD

  • Becoming Fluent

    How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language

    by Richard Roberts, Roger Kreuz ...
    **Forget everything you’ve heard about adult language learning: Evidence from cognitive science and psychology proves we can learn foreign languages just as easily as children.This eye-opening study reveals how adult learners can master a foreign language by drawing on skills and knowledge honed over a lifetime.**Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Raising Kids Who Read

    What Parents and Teachers Can Do

    by Daniel T. Willingham ...
    How parents and educators can teach kids to love reading in the digital ageEveryone agrees that reading is important, but kids today tend to lose interest in reading before adolescence. In Raising Kids Who Read, bestselling author and psychology professor Daniel T. Willingham explains this phenomenon and provides practical solutions for engendering a love of reading that lasts into adulthood. Like ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • What if everything you knew about education was wrong?

    by David Didau ...
    If you feel a bit cross at the presumption of some oik daring to suggest everything you know about education might be wrong, please take it with a pinch of salt. What if everything you knew about education was wrong? is just a title. Of course, you probably think a great many things that aren't wrong. The aim of the book is to help you 'murder your darlings'. David Didau will question your most ... Read more

    $25.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Intelligence Reframed

    Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century

    by Howard Gardner ...
    Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has been acclaimed as the most influential educational theorist since John Dewey. His ideas about intelligence and creativity - explicated in such bestselling books as Frames of Mind and Multiple Intelligences (over 200,000 copies in print combined) - have revolutionized our thinking. In his groundbreaking 1983 book Frames of Mind , Howard Gardner first ... Read more

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  • Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives

    Comprehending, Analyzing and Discussing Text

    by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey ...
    Series series Essentials for Principals
    Prompt students to become the sophisticated readers, writers, and thinkers they need to be to achieve higher learning. The authors explore the important relationship between text, learner, and learning. With an array of methods and assignments to establish critical literacy in a discussion-based and reflective classroom, you’ll encourage students to find meaning and cultivate thinking from even ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Making Kids Cleverer

    A manifesto for closing the advantage gap

    by David Didau ...
    In 'Making Kids Cleverer: A manifesto for closing the advantage gap', David Didau reignites the nature vs. nurture debate around intelligence and offers research-informed guidance on how teachers can help their students acquire a robust store of knowledge and skills that is both powerful and useful.Foreword by Paul A. Kirschner.Given the choice, who wouldn't want to be cleverer? What teacher ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Comics to Classics

    A Guide to Books for Teens and Preteens

    by Arthea J. S. Reed ...
    For each developmental stage between the ages of 10 and 18, educator Arthea J. S. Reed provides lists of books organized by genre and carefully selected for teen appeal. In addition to a detailed bibliography, Reed focuses on the particular challenges for each age group, and highlights strategies for parents to persuade their children to read. This guide will help parents and teachers choose the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Writing for Impact

    8 Secrets from Science That Will Fire Up Your Readers’ Brains

    by Bill Birchard ...
    Learn the keys to energizing your writing, engaging readers, and breaking out with influence.What good will it do to skillfully craft a written argument if you lose your audience? Simple emails, formal reports, blogs, presentations, articles—they need punch to gain influence. Clear structure and logic alone won’t do. To engage readers, you need to make mentally stimulating choices in language ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds

    The Role of Teachers and Teacher Educators, Part II

    by Donald S. Blumenfeld-Jones, Anne Chodakowski, Julia Cote, Joyce M. Dutcher, Kieran Egan, Ginny Esch, Brenda Gladstone, David Jardine, Kathryn L. Jenkins, Gillian C. Judson0, Dixie K. Keyes1, Beverly J. Klug2, Chris Lasher-Zwerling3, Teresa Leavitt4, Shaun Murphy5, Jacqueline Sack6, Kym Stewart7, Madalina Tanase8, Kip Téllez9, Sandra Wasko-Flood0, Sharon Friesen1, Patricia T. Whitfield2, Terrell M. Peace3, Cheryl J. Craig4 ...
    Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds presents a plethora of approaches to developing human potential in areas not conventionally addressed. Organized in two parts, this international collection of essays provides viable educational alternatives to those currently holding sway in an era of high-stakes accountability. Taken together, the chapters in Part I of Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds ... Read more

    $55.79 CAD