Biology Exploring Life See LifeSmart Details
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Historically, as publishers, we have worked with you as professors to review and help us publish content to meet your course needs. Over the past few years we expanded our research to truly gather a better understanding of today’s students. We listened, we observed and we followed students to understand how they study, how they take notes, how they read and how they use the web. We also watched instructors prepare, teach, assess, and evaluate their students. Students told us they want more visual and interactive appeal at a less expensive price. They also strive for new ways to be more efficient in their learning. Now, with our newest M-series program, LifeSmart: Exploring Human Development, you have the opportunity to engage your students as you never have before. LifeSmart’s adaptive diagnostic provides your students with the ability to assess what they know and don’t know before their tests. Furthermore, LifeSmart provides Milestones, our new video and assessment program that helps bring the course material to life, so your students can witness development as it unfolds. Our research gives students current and relevant applications to their lives in a new design layout that will grab your student's attention and make serious scholarship enjoyable to read. LifeSmart fits today’s students.
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Biology Exploring Life : LifeSmart Reviews
| 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful  interesting concept, interesting book, By kjersten12 (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: LifeSmart (Paperback) This book looks, and reads, just like a magazine. It is very well-written and spans almost every aspect of human development possible. There are many areas that are not dealt with in huge amounts of detail, but it serves as a great start to people just beginning to learn about development. Vivid pictures, informative sidebar comments, and engaging layout make this a great alternative to the traditional (boring) textbook. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful  A sad commentary on the state of university-level psychology, in my opinion., By adllewellyn (Clear Lake, Texas) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: LifeSmart (Paperback) I think this textbook is terrible. Most of you reading this (myself included) will be required to get it for the course you are taking, and have no voice in whether or not it is used. (I have submitted these same comments directly to my university.)It is oversimplified. I am saddened that especially with a subject like psychology (which is highly narrative and anecdotal) we have sunk to the level of glossy magazine books because we are unable to stay focused enough to read actual high level text. We have to support it with "the latest trends in movies" and a retrospective on the characters from Twilight. Ugh. It makes incredibly biased assumptions with statements like "findings say..." without supporting those findings with references. I would highly disagree with the book's statements on hospital births, the appropriate use of C-sections, the origins of classroom education, and (these are frequent) how everything in the end comes back to being poor. (and that's... Read more  Used In Masters in Education Course & Used it in 'Real Life'!, By An educated consumer "mgeorge100" (Massachusetts United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: LifeSmart (Paperback) This book was a purchase I made for a course while pursuing my Masters in Elementary Education. The book was one of the texts for a course in Development & Learning. I'm not sure what a previous reviewer was so offended by, but I could not disagree more with their review. This book is well written, well thought out, and delivers the information in a format that is not only user friendly, but keeps the reader engaged with relevant, current information/statistics/graphs/photographs/stories/website links.One of the best tools a teacher can use to help their students learn and understand is to activate a personal schema when teaching a subject. That is the process where the teacher gives the students a point of reference in their own lives to help the student relate to the new information. (ex: If a teacher is going to teach about recycling, s/he could ask their students what they know about, how it is used in their lives and if they recycle at home.) The ability for students... Read more |
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