Book Announcement

Self-directed, self-paced professional learning teachers can use to build agency and improve their practice, with easy-to-digest ideas that can be implemented in the classroom the next day.

Teachers start their professional journey with a clear aim: to teach well so students thrive socially, emotionally, and academically. All too often, though, the hard realities of teaching (mandated curricula, scripted lesson plans, overloaded schedules, students' personal struggles) hamper the best of intentions. Navigating these challenges and avoiding burnout calls for teachers to build strong relationships among colleagues, students, families, and communities. Those relationships in turn help teachers create contexts for deep learning, reflection, and student-centered instruction. This book provides strategies and tools for doing all this.

A new book co-authored by School of Interactive Arts & Technology professor Ron Wakkary and SIAT alum and Eindhoven University of Technology assistant professor Doenja Oogjes was published this August.

Wakkary and Oogjes' book "The Importance of Speculation in Design Research," reveals how speculative reasoning in design research increases the capacity of human-computer interaction (HCI) to address a wider array of social and research challenges.

In “Prehistoric World: Over 1,200 Incredible Mammals and Discoveries from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic,” readers will learn about the warm-blooded animals that rose to prominence after the dinosaurs went extinct. The book offers incredible facts about each species, including what they ate, where they lived and how they behaved.