scholarly journals Reimagining Numeracies: Empowered, Game-Informed Meaning Making in and beyond the Pandemic Era

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-31
Author(s):  
Sandra Schamroth Abrams
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
Support Students

This article focuses on how a game-informed culture in public school math classes sustained interaction, cooperation, and empowered meaning making when COVID-19 mandates closed school buildings and education went fully online. More specifically, the game-informed learning environment supported the students’ development and discussion of their multimodal numeracies, and the highlighted activity reveals how the generation of math memes can foster students’ engagement in creative and empowered practices. Underscored throughout this article is the importance to embrace the expansiveness of numeracies in order to recognize, value, and support students’ meaning making.

scholarly journals Setting Up a Language Learning Environment in Microsoft Teams

2020 ◽  
pp. 263-270
Author(s):  
Carolin Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Short Notice ◽  
Language Courses ◽  
The University ◽  
Support Students ◽  
Staff Skills ◽  
Do So

The Language Zone at the University of Leeds, UK, is well established as a hub for language learners across the campus, both those on language courses and those studying languages independently for a variety of reasons. It has been operating entirely online since March 2020 and will do so until the campus fully re-opens. This written account gives a brief overview of the changes made to the Language Zone’s services and provision of learning materials in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, including how the team members’ roles were adapted to ensure staff skills were taken into account. In addition to showing how services were maintained when the campus was closed at short notice and teaching was moved online until further notice, the study outlines how the Language Zone developed a platform to support the 2020 summer pre-sessional programmes to be delivered completely online. Finally, reflecting on the recent achievements and considering how to support students in the future, it aims to inspire other self-access centres to think about what they can do to develop their services in response to the crisis and beyond.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF SOME METHODS OF DESIGNING AND RECONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS OF SCHOOLS

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 62-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. V. Pozdnyakova ◽  
N. S. Kobelev ◽  
A. L. Pozdnyakov
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
Functional Component ◽  
Space Planning ◽  
Planning Decisions ◽  
Modern School ◽  
Modern Learning ◽  
The Aesthetic

The article describes the process of transforming the industrial model of the school into a modern one. The conclusion is made about the influence of the development of the educational process on the formation of architecture and space-planning decisions of buildings. The increase in the nomenclature of classrooms is directly related to the complexity of the structure of the school and its functional component. Also, modern trends in the design of school buildings are described. The space of schools is considered as a multifaceted structure, combining both places for study, and for rest. The problem of expanding and deepening the information space is analyzed, and ways of its solution are suggested. The main principles of designing public school zones, their division into different-scale volumes are described in detail. Conclusions are made about the requirements for modern school buildings to ensure their compliance with the aesthetic needs of the student's personality. The main problems that are present in the modern school fund are analyzed and possible options for its reconstruction are analyzed. Also, the principles of reconstruction in accordance with the types of planning organization are developed. Examples of solutions to some of these problems are given, and the issue of creating comfortable conditions for people with disabilities is separately highlighted. A conclusion is made about the effectiveness of applying these principles to ensure the modern learning process.

Historical analysis of the economic life-cycle performance of public school buildings

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (7) ◽  
pp. 813-832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filipa Salvado ◽  
Nuno Marques de Almeida ◽  
Álvaro Vale e Azevedo
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Public School ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Cycle Performance ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
Economic Life Cycle

The DEKOR System

2011 ◽  
pp. 164-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Gütl ◽  
Victor Manuel García-Barrios
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Learner Characteristics ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Learning Content ◽  
Support Students

Due to the wide diversity of learning styles and learner characteristics, delivering learning material from modern ICT-based learning must also be conducted in a diverse manner rather than with a “one-fitsall” approach. By focusing on content aspects, the majority of adaptive Web-based educational systems are only able to deal with closed repositories and therefore only pre-defined content alternatives for limited learner characteristics are manageable. One possible solution is to enable and technologically support students’ freedom to select appropriate learning content of their own choice. The WWW as an extensive repository of diverse content has gained considerable interest as an open-ended learning environment, but most students cannot cope well with such open accessibility. To overcome this, the authors have started research towards a system of personalized access to open repositories. In this book chapter, they introduce the evolution of their linked approaches and discuss the findings in the context of learner characteristics.

My Personal Mobile Language Learning Environment

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 49-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria A. Perifanou
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Personal Approach ◽  
Learning Scenarios ◽  
New Applications ◽  
Support Students

Mobile devices can motivate learners through moving language learning from predominantly classroom–based contexts into contexts that are free from time and space. The increasing development of new applications can offer valuable support to the language learning process and can provide a basis for a new self regulated and personal approach to learning. A key challenge for language teachers is to actively explore the potential of mobile technologies in their own learning so that they can support students in using them. The aim of this paper is first to describe the basic theoretical framework of Mobile Learning and Personal Learning Environments. Secondly, it intends to assist language teachers and learners in building their own Mobile Personal Learning Environment providing a useful classification of iPhone applications with a description and examples. The paper concludes with the proposal of ideas for practical, personal language learning scenarios, piloted in an Italian language learning context.

Public School Buildings for Crippled Children

1955 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 250-252
Author(s):  
Al Tudyman
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
School Buildings

scholarly journals The Impact of Outdoor Views on Students’ Seat Preference in Learning Environments

Buildings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhonghua Gou ◽  
Maryam Khoshbakht ◽  
Behnam Mahdoudi
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Occupancy Rate ◽  
University Library ◽  
Good Learning ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Support Students ◽  
Seat Preference

A Good learning environment should support students’ choices and attract them to stay. Focusing on outdoor views, this research explores two questions: How important outdoor views are in seat selection in learning environments? How do the view elements influence students’ seating behaviors in learning environments? A seat preference survey and view elements and occupancy rate measurements were conducted in a university library building in Gold Coast, Australia. This study not only echoes the previous research indicating that territory and privacy are important factors for choosing seats in a learning environment; more importantly, this study contributes to the literature with evidence that outdoor views might be an important factor for seat preference. Specifically, sky views and shading views were found positively related to occupancy rate. Based on this point, open views with appropriate shading were found as an optimal outdoor view composition. The singularity of greenery views would less likely be attractive to building occupants.

Evaluating a Public School Relocation in Urban Taiwan

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (7) ◽  
pp. 984-1006
Author(s):  
Chiu-I Sung
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Educational Literature ◽  
Quality Learning

This study investigates a proposal to relocate a secondary school in Taiwan because of political and urbanization forces. This important issue has received little attention in the educational literature. Interviews, a focus group, and surveys were used to collect the views of parents, students, teachers, administrators, and local influential people. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis was adopted to evaluate the possibility of school relocation. The results showed that teachers were less likely to agree to relocate, whereas policymakers supported the move. The principal, many students, and their parents would agree to relocate if the new site offered a high-quality learning environment.

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