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Free Download Technology Acceptance, Path Dependence, and the Demand for Robo-Advisory Services (Forschung zur Digitalisierung der Wirtschaft | Advanced Studies in Business Digitization) by Maximilian Horn
English | June 11, 2024 | ISBN: 3658446781 | 250 pages | MOBI | 11 Mb
This book explores the effects of the previously ignored factors of path dependence and product features on technology acceptance with a focus on robo-advice. A newly developed model introduces path dependence to technology acceptance research allowing to explain previously unaccountable effects. An empirical test of the model using data from Germany and the USA elicits that path dependence influences the attitudes towards and demand for robo-advice. A process consisting of a market survey, a choice-based conjoint analysis, and a test in a technology acceptance model allows the structured investigation of the effects of product features on the demand for robo-advice. The results show that selected product features have effects on the demand for robo-advice and that it is essential to establish these effects empirically.

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Free Download Katja Franko Aas, Helene Oppen Gundhus, Heidi Mork Lomell, "Technologies of InSecurity: The Surveillance of Everyday Life"
English | 2008 | pages: 294 | ISBN: 0415464552 | PDF | 1,8 mb
Technologies of Insecurity examines how general social and political concerns about terrorism, crime, migration and globalization are translated into concrete practices of securitisation of everyday life.

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Free Download Technologies for Digital Transformation: Moving Towards the Future of Organisations (Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation) by Alessio Maria Braccini, Jessie Pallud, Ferdinando Pennarola
English | May 29, 2024 | ISBN: 3031521196 | 349 pages | MOBI | 7.43 Mb
Digital technologies can have a profound impact on modern organisations, changing the way they operate, communicate, cooperate, and deliver value to stakeholders. This book gathers the selected and revised best papers presented at the annual conference of the Italian Chapter of AIS, which took place in Catanzaro in October 2022. It offers a comprehensive overview of the impacts of emerging digital technologies, such as AI, machine learning, blockchain, and Industry 4.0, on organisations and industries.

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Free Download Sara Wachter-Boettcher, "Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech"
English | ISBN: 0393634639 | 2017 | 240 pages | AZW3, MOBI | 7 MB + 5 MB
A revealing look at how tech industry bias and blind spots get baked into digital products―and harm us all.

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Free Download Alice M. Hammel, "Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Practical Resource"
English | ISBN: 0190665173 | 2017 | 216 pages | AZW3 | 7 MB
Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Practical Resource brings together theory, policy, and planning for instruction in K-12 classrooms. The resource is a result of collaboration between K-12 teachers, outstanding undergraduate and graduate music education students, and professionals in the field. The lesson ideas, lesson plans, and unit plans are organized according to the six domains posited by Alice Hammel and Ryan Hourigan in their book, Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Label-free Approach, Second Edition. This book equips music educators with understanding necessary to implement teaching ideas into the domains of cognition, communication, behavior, emotions, and physical and sensory needs. Classroom-tested lesson plans include procedure outlines and assessments as well as guides for adaptation, accommodation, and modification needed for successful implementation in K-12 classrooms. As such, this eminently useful guide provides teachers with enough practical ideas to allow them to begin to create and adapt their own lesson plans for use with students of differing needs and abilities.

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Free Download Alice M. Hammel, "Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Label-Free Approach Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 0190654694 | 2017 | 304 pages | AZW3 | 824 KB
The Second Edition of Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs offers updated accounts of music educators' experiences, featured as vignettes throughout the book. An accompanying Practical Resource includes lesson plans, worksheets, and games for classroom use. As a practical guide and reference manual, Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs, Second Edition addresses special needs in the broadest possible sense to equip teachers with proven, research-based curricular strategies that are grounded in both best practice and current special education law. Chapters address the full range of topics and issues music educators face, including parental involvement, student anxiety, field trips and performances, and assessment strategies. The book concludes with an updated list of resources, building upon the First Edition

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Free Download Teaching Middle School Physical Education by Michael E. Gosset
English | July 16, 2024 | ISBN: 1032698365 | 124 pages | PDF | 2.77 Mb
This resource supports Middle School Physical Education teachers in promoting healthy activity levels among their students, both in and outside the PE facilities. Its comprehensive curricular approach addresses National Physical Education standards but, unlike traditional curricula, encourages teaching sports and fitness as connected components instead of separate. This book is rooted in the progressive Sport Education model, which facilitates students' personal growth with the learning of individual and team sports. Fitness programming and cooperative activities are key aspects of this program. Unique to this book is a section detailing what to do if students have not yet learned movement concepts and skills at the elementary level. Each chapter includes a list of key concepts and review questions. A rationale for the Sport Education model, lesson plans, sample assessments, and safety considerations are provided. Sample forms and documents round out the book for a seamless transition from elementary PE to the middle level. Middle School Physical Education teachers and PE administrators will find this classroom-tested curricular approach accessible and easy to implement. As your students undergo psychomotor, cognitive, and affective change throughout the middle-grade years, this book lays out a PE program that not only acknowledges, but celebrates, their development, and improves physical skills while working past any fitness weaknesses.

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Free Download Carol Jago, Quentin J. Schultze, "Teaching Middle School Language Arts: Incorporating Twenty-first Century Literacies"
English | 2010 | pages: 337 | ISBN: 1607096307 | PDF | 1,4 mb
Teaching Middle School Language Arts is the first book on teaching middle school language arts for multiple intelligences and related 21st century literacies in technologically and ethnically diverse communities. More than 670,000 middle school teachers (grades six through eight) are responsible for educating nearly 13 million students in public and private schools. Thousands more teachers join these ranks annually, especially in the South and West, where ethnic populations are ballooning.

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Free Download Teacher Learning of Ambitious and Equitable Mathematics Instruction: A Sociocultural Approach (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series) by Ilana Horn, Brette Garner
English | March 18, 2022 | ISBN: 1032021748 | 274 pages | PDF | 9.12 Mb
Drawing on sociocultural learning theory, this book offers a groundbreaking theory of secondary mathematics teacher learning in schools, focusing on the transformation of instruction as a conceptual change project to achieve ambitious and equitable mathematics teaching.

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Free Download Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets by Rachel Feder, Tiffany Tatreau
English | November 26, 2024 | ISBN: 1683694740 | 256 pages | PDF | 34 Mb
From a Robert Frost poem on her debut album to the myth of Cassandra on The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift's lyrics are filled with literary connections.

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