The Road Ahead

2021 ◽  
pp. 213-230
Author(s):  
Naomi S. Baron
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Memory Capacity ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Default Mode ◽  
The Road ◽  
Digital Textbooks ◽  
Education Market ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
Print Reading

Chapter 10 asks us to think about two paradoxes. The first is that while print usage in the trade world has largely stabilized, the education market is aggressively adopting digital textbooks. Moreover, many students now judge print reading to be boring. The second paradox is that as screens potentially become the default mode for reading in schools, one of the much-touted goals of education, critical thinking, is ill suited to digital reading. While the notion of critical thinking remains ill defined, it surely includes reasoned analysis and reflection, for which the evidence indicates print is better suited. Digital tools, which are effective for information-seeking and fact-checking, also appear to be undermining our motivation for using our memory capacity. But readers are not defenseless. The chapter closes with concrete suggestions for mapping a way forward.

Plagiarism, Licensing, and the Proper Use of Digital Textbooks

2019 ◽  
pp. 568-581
Author(s):  
Elena Railean
Keyword(s):  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Digital Textbooks ◽  
Additional Costs

This chapter explores ways to avoid plagiarism in digital textbooks' use and development. Traditionally, the plagiarism recommendation refers to books and articles. How about textbooks? However, to avoid plagiarism it is important to make sure that licensing in digital textbooks' use and development is properly used. For licensing to be a benefit for learning, it is important to note that it may impose additional costs. This chapter reflects and includes in discussion the issue on licensing, specifically the Creative Common (CC) license of open educational resources. Secondly, it considers how the Creative Common License could improve the proper use of digital textbooks. Finally, it explores how the use of digital tools can allow students to learn more effectively.

Combating Fake News Online

2020 ◽  
pp. 273-289
Author(s):  
Mehmet Fatih Çömlekçi
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
Data Journalism ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
Methodological Approaches

In today's post-truth environment, besides the increase in political polarization, the rapid spread of fake news infringes on society. In the struggle with fake news, fact-checking services have begun to play an important role. The aim of this chapter is to highlight how fact-checking services work, what their strategies and limitations are, their interaction with users, and the digital tools they use in such interactions. Thus, the platforms Teyit.org (Confirmation) and Doğruluk Payı (Share of Truth) that operate in Turkey have been chosen as exemplary cases. In the study, the content analysis and the in-depth interview methodological approaches have been used together. As a conclusion, it has been revealed that these aforementioned fact-checking services increase their activities during election times, adopt the principles of political impartiality and economic transparency, use the practices of data journalism, interact with users, and try to create a digital literacy ecosystem as an ultimate goal.

Default mode network connectivity indicates episodic memory capacity in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

Epilepsia ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 809-818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelia McCormick ◽  
Maher Quraan ◽  
Melanie Cohn ◽  
Taufik A. Valiante ◽  
Mary Pat McAndrews
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy ◽  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Default Mode Network ◽  
Network Connectivity ◽  
Memory Capacity ◽  
Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy ◽  
Default Mode ◽  
Mesial Temporal Lobe

Quality Assurance on the Road: Finland and Austria in Comparison

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 583-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Bernhard
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Road ◽  
Assurance System ◽  
National Quality ◽  
Education Market ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Higher Education Market

The ongoing necessity for quality and quality assurance in the entire Bologna process remains one of the main issues for European policy makers. The aims of creating comparable systems and of guaranteeing quality within higher education systems are the reasons for national developments and the eagerness to reform. The situation in two relatively small European countries, Austria and Finland, is at the centre of this research and exemplifies different ways of coping with international developments and the need to establish a comprehensive quality assurance system. How do these countries cope with the pressure to compete in the global higher education market? Is their system of quality assurance in line with the European aim to create a European higher education area? The purpose of this study is to provide an overview on two national quality assurance systems and to figure out similarities and differences between these two countries, providing a clear picture of what has been done in the field of quality assurance, where the challenges to transform are and how to improve quality assurance systems.

scholarly journals Critical Thinking Disposition and Library Anxiety: Affective Domains on the Space of Information Seeking and Use in Academic Libraries

2007 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nahyun Kwon ◽  
Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie ◽  
Linda Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Critical Thinking Disposition ◽  
Library Anxiety ◽  
Affective Variables ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Thinking Disposition ◽  
Affective Domains ◽  
Multivariate Relationship

Because both critical thinking and library anxiety have been found to play an important role in determining learning outcomes, it is possible that these two constructs are related in some way. To date, however, this link has not been empirically examined. In the present study, we have attempted to identify the nature of the association between critical thinking disposition and library anxiety among 170 graduate students. Findings revealed a negative multivariate relationship between these two sets of affective variables. Specifically, weak dispositions toward critical thinking were associated with high levels of library anxiety. Implications of the findings were discussed with respect to the approach to teaching information literacy in academic libraries.

scholarly journals Digital Storytelling in Museum Education Context: How to Promote Critical Thinking Skills through Digital Tools within Secondary School Pupils

2021 ◽  
pp. 135-144
Author(s):  
Maria Rosaria
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Museum Education ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Heritage Education ◽  
Secondary School Pupils

The present paper aims to analyse the use of Digital Storytelling (DST) methodology in museum education context for the development of Critical Thinking (CT) skills within secondary school pupils. Starting from a brief literature review about CT promotion and cultural heritage education, an overview of active learning methodologies used in museum education for CT development is introduced. Moreover, the paper presents the first data obtained from a quasi-experiment carried out at the Galleria Lapidaria in the Capitolini Museums in Rome, which is focused on the use of DST for the promotion of CT skills for secondary school pupils within an integrated formal and informal education path.

scholarly journals Analysis of Territorial Accessibility to the Nodes of Health Activity in the Municipality of Pitalito, Colombia

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Diego A. Escobar ◽  
Jorge A. Montoya ◽  
Carlos A. Moncada
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
The Road ◽  
Geostatistical Methods ◽  
Current Population ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Infrastructure Network ◽  
Base Scenario

The current population growth links different social and economic development problems that must be addressed, within these public health, which should be of high priority in order to minimize the threats of health in the citizenry; therefore, administrative entities must get strong commitments in minimum periods of time. Taking into account the above, it is proposed to evaluate the level of accessibility offered by the road infrastructure network in the municipality of Pitalito, department of Huila, as well as the level of coverage by population and area for the years 2015 (base scenario) and 2031 (intervened scenario), through the use of geostatistical methods from digital tools.

Embodied Learning in a Digital Age

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-472
Author(s):  
Amy Gore ◽  
Glenn Koelling
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Embodied Learning ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Physical Materials

As digital tools radically alter the ways instructors teach and students learn, the material resources of special collections offer an opportunity to reflect on the pedagogical differences between online and material instruction. The authors theorize that an embodied learning experience with physical materials engages students’ intellects, bodies, and emotions in ways that encourage critical thinking about information formats.

Technology-Enhanced Classroom to Enhance Critical Thinking Skills

2019 ◽  
pp. 225-244
Author(s):  
Alice Omariba
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Digital Workplace ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Technological Tools ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Impact

This chapter describes how the impact of digital technology can now be felt in all spheres of life leading to global competition especially in education. The vision for technology-enhanced classrooms is one in which student groups work on long-term, multidisciplinary projects involving challenging content that is interesting and important to them with the support of technological tools for collecting, analyzing, displaying and communicating information. In the face of severe social and economic challenges, many developing countries are struggling to overcome barriers to the integration of digital tools in education to help students develop high-order skills and global competences for life and work. This chapter is intended to further discussions on incorporating technologies into instruction in order to bridge the gap between critical thinking skills and digital tools, and helping learners to become globally competent at the digital workplace.

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