scholarly journals Creating new digital tools through co-creation activities with students

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helle Brink ◽  
Tina Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
The Other ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Information Searching ◽  
Teaching Activities ◽  
Project Groups

Do we as librarians really know what students at our universities need to develop their information literacy? Yes, to some extent, but not necessarily completely. In Spring 2018, two librarians at Aalborg University Library have joined forces with two student project groups to explore the students’ views on what they need and how that corresponds with our knowledge and professional experience of what it takes to become information literate. We also focus on how best to accommodate these different needs in terms of digital tools. Teaching activities at Aalborg University are based on problem-based learning (PBL). The students work in groups with projects focusing on real problems, and they are responsible for their own learning. Thus, in our partnership with the two project groups, the students are the driving force in the development, and we are collaborators in their process. One group is exploring the idea of developing a knowledge-sharing tool for use in project-based group work. The other group focuses on developing a tool that can support the process of information searching. In our presentation, we will focus on the students’ ideas on how to create relevant tools for students, the actual tools, and our experience with engaging in co-creation-processes with students. Our co-creation processes are defined as an equal partnership with the students. However, although we have defined the scope of our partnership, we do not provide the solution. Our co-creation processes and their outcome are characterized by being deliberately unpredictable in order to further innovative ideas and creative thinking.  

scholarly journals Kindergarteners building a library of their own

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Hilde Terese Drivenes Moore ◽  
Irene Trysnes
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Emergent Literacy ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
The Other ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Electronic Books ◽  
Digital Stories ◽  
Participatory Observation

This study investigates how children can develop information literacy (IL) skills even before they learn how to read and write. In the project we used a combination of participatory observation and action research-inspired trialling of digital tools. Kindergarteners were given iPads and access to the app Book Creator to create their own digital stories. The electronic books were gathered and made available to the other children in the class, making a custom local digital library for the kindergarten. This article suggests a new way of considering IL as an emergent literacy, or even perhaps emergent information literacy.

scholarly journals Research on Planning and Design of Urban Architectural Color in Changchun

2020 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 04029
Author(s):  
Zhang Cui
Keyword(s):  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Era ◽  
Color Design ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
The Aesthetic

Architecture is the soul of city color. The planning focus of city color is city architecture, especially the planning control of the main wall color of street buildings. The design of architectural color should not only consider the surrounding environment of the building, the content of the building and the building materials, but also proceed from the aesthetic needs and conform to the principle of color engineering. On this basis, the plan proposes color design guidelines and relies on scientific and standardized “urban building color design guidelines” to achieve the purpose of maintaining the original appearance of history and creating a new era style. Besides the traditional buildings, the other “architectural color guidelines” should leave more room for manoeuvre and not restrict the creative thinking of architects.

Analysing the Self-Efficacy Levels of Coaches of Different Branches

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 2206-2209
Author(s):  
Nahit Özdayi
Keyword(s):  
Normal Distribution ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Other Hand

Aim: This paper aims to analyse the self-efficacies of coaches of different branches. Methods: This study, which was conducted by using coach self-efficacy scale, reached totally 192 volunteering coaches who lived in Çanakkale and Balıkesir. The data collected were then analysed on the SPSS programme. The kurtosis and skewness values were examined so as to check the distribution of the data, and consequently, the data were found to have normal distribution. Results: As a result, statistically significant differences were found between the coaches aged 28-32 and coaches aged 33-37 in their levels of self-efficacy in general and in the sub-factor of efficacy in impersonating. Accordingly, the coaches who were in 28-32 age group had higher self-efficacy and efficacy in impersonating than the ones who were in 33-37 age group. On the other hand, there were no statistically significant differences between the participants’ levels of self-efficacy according to gender, branch and professional experience. Conclusion: The coaches in the 28-32 age group were found to have higher self-efficacy and efficacy in impersonating than the coaches in the 33-37 age group on examining the results obtained. No differences were found between the participants in the other factors. Key Words: Self-efficacy, coaches, sport

scholarly journals From projects to problems

2006 ◽  
pp. 81-83
Author(s):  
Derek Raine
Keyword(s):  
Group Work ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Project Work ◽  
Work Skills ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Group Projects ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Teaching Physics

Projects are a familiar feature of physics curricula and many courses include one or more group projects as a way of developing group work skills, if not for teaching physics. Problem-based learning on the other hand, which is designed primarily to teach physics while enhancing group work skills, is not so familiar. In this article we shall show how project work can be developed rather simply into problem-based learning by contextualising the project in terms of a problem and a viewpoint. The examples given will be based on developments of first and second year courses at Leicester to integrate practical, computational and theoretical work within the programme of specialist options. The benefits to staff and students will be discussed.

scholarly journals P. KULISH IN CREATIVE THINKING M. KHVILOVY AND M. ZEROV

2020 ◽  
pp. 135-140
Author(s):  
O. V. Pilipey
Keyword(s):  
Ukrainian Academy ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Critical Thought ◽  
Documentary Source ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

In the literary and artistic discourse of the 20–30’s of the XX century. Interest in P. Kulish is growing among literary scholars. It was in the 1920s that the archive of P. Kulish was transferred to the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, which became a serious documentary, source base for the study of works, literary-critical views, and outlook of this writer. P. Kulish is considered to be one of the first Europeanists of Ukrainian culture to lay the foundation for the modern modern culture of the 1920s. For example, G. Grabovych called P. Kulish a driving force and the founder of the newest Ukrainian intellectual, critical thought and those dimensions of national consciousness that underlie it, and a key figure in the formation of modern Ukrainian culture. He quite rightly noted about P. Kulish M. Dragomanov: “… one of the Ukrainophiles hits the point of world, human culture, which will lift our people”.

scholarly journals L'artesà high tech. El procés projectual per educar en la nova era.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascual Timor
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Design And Production

Drawing on the author’ professional experience, this article describes the conceptual and instrumental changes that have taken place in the design and production process of serial ceramic products as a result of the appearance of digital tools in the classroom.

scholarly journals The development of a model for teaching information literacy to nursing students through cross-professional collaboration

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
Anita Nordsteien ◽  
May-Elin Thengs Horntvedt ◽  
Nina Therese Holmen
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Teaching Model ◽  
Professional Collaboration ◽  
Information Searching ◽  
Nursing Educators ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
Nursing Science ◽  
Critical Appraisal Skills

This paper describes experiences from a collaborative project between the nursing educators at the Institute of Nursing Science and the health sciences librarians at Vestfold University College in Norway. The aim of the project was to develop a teaching model to improve the nursing students' information searching and critical appraisal skills.

Information Literacy of a Foreign Language Teacher: An Analysis of Russian and European Professional Standards of Teachers

Vestnik MEI ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 135-142
Author(s):  
Marina A. Slepneva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Professional Standards ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Information And Communication

The introduction of information and communication technologies into the educational process began more than twenty years ago, along with the rapid spreading of computers around the world. However, not all educational institutions have supported the inclusion of information and communication technologies into the educational process for the above-mentioned quite a long period of time. Most likely, this was due to insufficient financial investments in modernization. In addition, insufficient attention was initially paid to training of teachers for working with digital technologies. At present, when information and communication competence has already been included into all international standards for teachers, it turned out that neither graduates from teacher training institutes nor teachers who have been working for already a long period of time have sufficient competencies for using digital technologies in practice. A comparative analysis of Russian and European professional standards for teachers is carried out, and the competencies they should possess are considered. Various versions of the information literacy definitions are given, which have undergone changes in the technological development process. Special attention is paid to the requirements for competencies of foreign language teachers in the field of digital technologies. The list of the currently available digital tools, including mobile devices, is discussed. The students actively use such technologies to learn languages, but to yield a really positive effect, digital tools should be integrated directly into the educational process in a professional manner. The experience of work with digital technologies gained by the teachers of the NRU MPEI Department of Foreign Languages is considered. A conclusion has been drawn, according to which a high level of information literacy enables teachers not only to change their own pedagogical methods, but also to open new horizons for their students, who, in turn, gain access to high quality education.

Kinderheilkunde, edited by Professor G.-A. von Harnack. Berlin/Heidelberg/New York: Springer-Verlag, 1968, 451 pp., $9.50

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 644-644
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Cone
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Classical Tradition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Professional Experience

Both of these books, one English the other German, will satisfy the needs of the reader who wants something more than a synopsis yet less than a detailed textbook of pediatrics. Each accomplishes this goal, but in a different way. Dr. Jolly wrote his book entirely by himself, drawing on his long and varied clinical expenience in both England and West Africa. This in itself is a tremendous accomplishment because there are few pediatricians left in any country whose professional experience is broad enough for them to be able to write single-handedly a text of pediatrics in the classical tradition.

Coordinated righting behaviour in locusts

2001 ◽  
Vol 204 (4) ◽  
pp. 637-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.A. Faisal ◽  
T. Matheson
Keyword(s):  
Driving Force ◽  
Flat Surface ◽  
Longitudinal Axis ◽  
Upright Position ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Legged Robots ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Low Levels

A locust placed upside down on a flat surface uses a predictable sequence of leg movements to right itself. To analyse this behaviour, we made use of a naturally occurring state of quiescence (thanatosis) to position locusts in a standardised upside-down position from which they spontaneously right themselves. Locusts grasped around the pronotum enter a state of thanatosis during which the limbs can be manipulated into particular postures, where they remain, and the animal can be placed upside down on the ground. When released, thanatosis lasts 4–456 s (mean 73 s) before the animal suddenly becomes active again and rights itself within a further 600 ms. Thanatosis is characterised by very low levels of leg motor activity. During righting, one hind leg provides most of the downward force against the ground that rolls the body around a longitudinal axis towards the other side. The driving force is produced by femoral levation (relative to the body) at the trochanter and by tibial extension. As the animal rolls over, the hind leg on the other side is also levated at the trochanter, so that it does not obstruct the movement. The forelegs and middle legs are not required for successful righting but they can help initially to tip the locust to one side, and at the end of the movement they help stop the roll as the animal turns upright. Individual locusts have a preferred righting direction but can, nevertheless, roll to either side. Locusts falling upside down through the air use both passive and active mechanisms to right themselves before they land. Without active movements, falling locusts tend to rotate into an upright position, but most locusts extend their hind leg tibiae and/or spread their wings, which increases the success of mid-air righting from 28 to 49 % when falling from 30 cm. The rapid and reliable righting behaviour of locusts reduces the time spent in a vulnerable upside-down position. Their narrow body geometry, large hind legs, which can generate substantial dorsally directed force, and the particular patterns of coordinated movements of the legs on both sides of the body are the key features that permit locusts to right themselves effectively. The reliability of autonomous multi-legged robots may be enhanced by incorporating these features into their design.

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