L L Ryan: 136 books
by Lynn Ahlgrim-Delzell Ph.D., Stephanie Al Otaiba Ph.D., Jill Allor
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
How can today’s educators teach academic content to students with moderate and severe developmental disabilities—while helping all students meet Common Core State Standards? This text has answers for K-12 teachers, straight from 37 experts in special and general education. A followup...
Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump
Images from Literature and Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
*Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump:*Images from Literature and Visual Arts treats literature, film, television series, and comic books dealing with utopian and dystopian worlds reflecting on or anticipating our current age. From Henry James’s dreamlike utopia of “The Great Good Place”...
Sport and the Neoliberal University
Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
College students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomerates.
The...
by The #Awethors, Anita Kovacevic, Kelly Hall
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The December Awethology - Light Volume is a mixture of stories written by #Awethors. Each and every story is
unique, some funny, others a surprise all relating to the month of December
Because one voice in your head isn't enough, here are so many more, as the Awethors chime together...
Making School a Game Worth Playing
Digital Games in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Integrate game-based learning for 21st Century skills success!
This straightforward, easy-to-follow guide from experts Schaaf and Mohan helps you leverage technology students love best – digital video games. With step-by-step strategies, you’ll easily find, evaluate, and integrate gaming...
by Ryan L. Schaaf
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Combine hard work and deep fun in classrooms with digital game–based learning. Students of the always-on generation gain information through different tools and learn differently than generations before them. Discover how to incorporate digital games and use them to craft engaging, academically applicable...
Game On
Using Digital Games to Transform Teaching, Learning, and Assessment—a practical guide for educators to select and tailor digital games to their students’ needs
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Discover how digital gaming can improve learning and prepare students for successful futures. The authors—both experienced educators and enthusiastic gamers—contend that students of the 21st century communicate and learn differently than previous generations. By incorporating digital games into...
Reinventing Learning for the Always On Generation
Strategies and Apps That Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Cultivate effective 21st century classrooms. Teachers and administrators must respond to the digital bombardment students face to ensure their success in the 21st century world. Explore the differences in students’ neurological processing from previous generations, investigate the nine critical...
Aging Heroes
Growing Old in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Despite the increasing number and variety of older characters appearing in film, television, comics, and other popular culture, much of the understanding of these figures has been limited to outdated stereotypes of aging. These include depictions of frailty, resistance to modern life, and mortality....
Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality
Queer Students of Color and Anti-Oppressive Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2001
In recent years, researchers have considerably expanded our understanding of the experiences of students of color and of students who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning (ie. Queer). They have provided us with rich resources for addressing racism and heterosexism; however, few...
Fiction River: Fantastic Detectives
An Original Anthology Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Fantastic detectives come in many forms, from dogs to elves to eggs. (Yes, eggs.) And fantastic detective stories come in all mystery subgenres, from cozy to hard-boiled. (Remember. Eggs.) All of these forms and subgenres combine to create one of the most delightful additions to the Fiction River...
Fiction River: Moonscapes
An Original Anthology Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
We all look up at the moon and wonder. And maybe dream. For centuries, the moon filled our imaginations. Eleven professional writers took those dreams and set original stories on moons scattered all over the galaxy. Yet, as the dreams of centuries, every story holds a human touch. From a mythical...
19 Gates of Hell
A Horror Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
From the darkest places imaginable, both outside and inside the mind, comes 19 tales that will drag you into places you never dreamed of seeing, not even in your worst nightmares.
Come along as these tales open up 19 gates into hell and experience the supernatural, the darkness of night, and...
The Supernatural Revamped
From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend...