scholarly journals Hybridising media education and social pedagogy: the (missed) opportunity in educational intervention with refugees in the ‘Italian reception system’

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-44
Author(s):  
Stefano Pasta
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Active Agent ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Migration Route ◽  
Positioning Systems ◽  
Reception System ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Digital Knowledge ◽  
And Migration

Abstract The thesis of this article is that in the informational society, social and intercultural education must be hybridized with media education. From this strong incorporation of media in education comes an approach to citizenship education as a new field of action in media education. The case study analysed deals with the flow of refugees into Italy as of 2013, following which there was a substantial investment in financing and in educating personnel in the reception system. Historically, there has always been a strong correlation between technology and migration; technology’s role as an active agent pertains not only to refugees’ departure but also to the entire migratory itinerary and the later process of integrating into the local community. Smartphones, global positioning systems, social networks and applications can make the difference between success and failure along the migration route. However, at reception centres, training practices in the digital environment do not characterise the structured educational offer but instead are more customary in refugees’ informal self-studies and build digital literacy. On the contrary, it appears useful to develop and promote refugees’ digital knowledge and literacy through practices that are not left to chance but are planned with pedagogical attention.

scholarly journals Virtualni svijet djece i mladih: izazovi na putu odrastanja

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1_2 2020) ◽  
pp. 79-110
Author(s):  
Ivana Sivrić ◽  
Maja Pandža Topić
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Media Habits

The media raises our children and form an important part of their daily lives. It is impossible to imagine life without the presence of the media. They are the main source of information, content, and topics on upbringing, education, culture, politics, and entertainment. The media are socializing agent which impact on society, children and youth is significant. Accordingly, there should be a greater social intention for media education and training. The role of media education in our schools is still underused, often marginalized and sometimes misunderstood by both teachers, preschool teachers, children and young people. The number of media, internet users and profiles and social networks is growing every day, as evidenced by numerous studies, but there is not enough education for the media nor education for critical thinking. Therefore, in this paper we tried to explore the media habits of children and youth in the local community, with special reference to the time that they spent on the Internet, mostly on social networks, and whether the time spent affected their daily interactions with the environment, friends, family and, at the end of the day, their succes in school. We where interested in how much they used social network, at what age they created their profiles, and how free they felt in providing information about themselves and others through the media. According to the results, children create their profiles on social networks at a very early stage, even when they are not ready or educated for it. In addition, children are very open to the virtual world of communication with the people they do not know in real life, even to meet strangers without being aware of possible manipulation, false profiles, violence and the like. There is a clear awareness among most respondents about the need for media education, regardless of the difference in the amount of time that they spend on social networks, as well as a clearly articulated stand on the need to introduce media education as part of compulsory education in schools.

scholarly journals Intranasal delivery of mitochondria for treatment of Parkinson’s Disease model rats lesioned with 6-hydroxydopamine

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jui-Chih Chang ◽  
Yi-Chun Chao ◽  
Huei-Shin Chang ◽  
Yu-Ling Wu ◽  
Hui-Ju Chang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Olfactory Bulb ◽  
Disease Model ◽  
Intranasal Delivery ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Migration ◽  
6 Hydroxydopamine ◽  
Locomotor Behaviors ◽  
Migratory Stream

AbstractThe feasibility of delivering mitochondria intranasally so as to bypass the blood–brain barrier in treating Parkinson's disease (PD), was evaluated in unilaterally 6-OHDA-lesioned rats. Intranasal infusion of allogeneic mitochondria conjugated with Pep-1 (P-Mito) or unconjugated (Mito) was performed once a week on the ipsilateral sides of lesioned brains for three months. A significant improvement of rotational and locomotor behaviors in PD rats was observed in both mitochondrial groups, compared to sham or Pep-1-only groups. Dopaminergic (DA) neuron survival and recovery > 60% occurred in lesions of the substantia nigra (SN) and striatum in Mito and P-Mito rats. The treatment effect was stronger in the P-Mito group than the Mito group, but the difference was insignificant. This recovery was associated with restoration of mitochondrial function and attenuation of oxidative damage in lesioned SN. Notably, P-Mito suppressed plasma levels of inflammatory cytokines. Mitochondria penetrated the accessory olfactory bulb and doublecortin-positive neurons of the rostral migratory stream (RMS) on the ipsilateral sides of lesions and were expressed in striatal, but not SN DA neurons, of both cerebral hemispheres, evidently via commissural fibers. This study shows promise for intranasal delivery of mitochondria, confirming mitochondrial internalization and migration via RMS neurons in the olfactory bulb for PD therapy.

The Synthesis and Migration of Nuclear Proteins during Mitosis and differentiation of Cells in Rats

1965 ◽  
Vol s3-106 (75) ◽  
pp. 229-240
Author(s):  
R. T. SIMS
Keyword(s):  
Granular Cell ◽  
Nuclear Proteins ◽  
Photographic Emulsion ◽  
Metaphase Chromosomes ◽  
Interphase Nuclei ◽  
Cell Layers ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Mitotic Figures ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Silver Grains

Hooded rats were given an intraperitoneal injection of 3H-tyrosine, and killed in pairs 10 min, 30 min, 12 h, 36 h, 7 days, and 30 days later. A piece of skin with white growing hair, and the tongue, were taken from each animal and radioautographs were prepared. Silver grains were counted over whole nuclei and whole mitotic figures of the germinal cells and whole nuclei of differentiating cells of both tissues. It was found that the interphase nuclei have significantly more silver grains over them than the chromosomes at all stages of mitosis and there are virtually no grains over metaphase, anaphase, and early telophase chromosomes in both tissues of all the animals killed up to 36 h after the injection. The difference between the grain counts over the interphase nuclei and the chromosomes of dividing cells is at least 20-fold at 30 min in the hair matrix, at least 5-fold at 30 min in the tongue and at 36 h in both tissues. It was established that the differences observed between the radioactivities of the nuclei and chromosomes of mitotic figures are real from estimates of: the radioactivity of the cell cytoplasm, volumes of the metaphase chromosomes and interphase nuclei within 1µ of the photographic emulsion, and the volumes of cytoplasm separating the photographic emulsion and these structures. No protein synthesis was demonstrable in the chromosomes during metaphase, anaphase, and early telophase. Nuclear proteins leave the chromosomes during prophase and prometaphase and return to the nucleus during late telophase. The cells in the matrix and upper bulb of the growing hair follicle and those in the germinal, prickle, and granular cell layers of the tongue are in different functional states; 30 min after injection of 3H-tyrosine they have different amounts of it in their nuclear proteins. It is suggested that the amount incorporated into each nucleus is related to the rate at which proteins are being synthesized by the cell.

INVESTIGATION OF THE ABSOLUTENESS OF TIME

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-54
Author(s):  
S. Tiguntsev
Keyword(s):  
High Precision ◽  
Gravitational Potential ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Relativistic Effect ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Clock Frequency ◽  
Positioning Systems ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Flow Of Time ◽  
The Difference

In classical physics, time is considered absolute. It is believed that all processes, regardless of their complexity, do not affect the flow of time The theory of relativity determines that the flow of time for bodies depends both on the speed of movement of bodies and on the magnitude of the gravitational potential. It is believed that time in space orbit passes slower due to the high speed of the spacecraft, and faster due to the lower gravitational potential than on the surface of the Earth. Currently, the dependence of time on the magnitude of the gravitational potential and velocity (relativistic effect) is taken into account in global positioning systems. However, studying the relativistic effect, scientists have made a wrong interpretation of the difference between the clock frequency of an orbiting satellite and the clock frequency on the Earth's surface. All further studies to explain the relativistic effect were carried out according to a similar scenario, that is, only the difference in clock frequencies under conditions of different gravitational potentials was investigated. While conducting theoretical research, I found that the frequency of the signal changes along the way from the satellite to the receiver due to the influence of Earth's gravity. It was found that the readings of two high-precision clocks located at different heights will not differ after any period of time, that is, it is shown that the flow of time does not depend on the gravitational potential. It is proposed to conduct full-scale experiments, during which some high-precision clocks are sent aboard the space station, while others remain in the laboratory on the surface of the earth. It is expected that the readings of the satellite clock will be absolutely identical to the readings of the clock in the Earth laboratory.

scholarly journals Epilogue: Rethinking digital literacy: Media education in the age of digital capitalism

2020 ◽  
pp. 230-239
Author(s):  
David Buckingham
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Digital Capitalism ◽  
The Media ◽  
Digital Media Literacy

Advocates of digital education have increasingly recognized the need for young people to acquire digital media literacy. However, this idea is often seen in instrumental terms, and is rarely implemented in any coherent or comprehensive way. This paper suggests that we need to move beyond a binary view of digital media as offering risks and opportunities for young people, and the narrow ideas of digital skills and internet safety to which it gives rise. The article propose that we should take a broader and more critical approach to the rise of ‘digital capitalism’, and to the ubiquity of digital media in everyday life. In this sense, the paper argue that the well-established conceptual framework and pedagogical strategies of media education can and should be extended to meet the new challenges posed by digital and social media.This article presents some reflections as an epigraph of the special issue "Digital learning: distraction or default for the future", whose final result has allowed us to group a set of critical research and analysis on the inclusion of digital technologies in educational contexts. The points of view presented in this epigraph is also developed in more detail in the book "The Media Education Manifesto" (Buckingham, 2019).

scholarly journals Analysis of the Value and Advantages of Financial Literacy and Digitalization to the Individual

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-152
Author(s):  
Afzal Sayed Munna ◽  
Rehana Khanam
Keyword(s):  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Financial Capability ◽  
Management Level ◽  
History Of ◽  
Digital Knowledge ◽  
The Individual

Digital literacy is the ability to analyse, evaluate and create a teaching and learning media which enables adults and youth to understand complex communication, Aufderheide (1993). Therefore, this research study has examined how digital knowledge could provide an opportunity to learn financial capability. Fintech has transformed the history of the financial sectors and places an individual at significant advantages. However, Bankers, Teachers, Information Technology (IT) professionals and university students were selected for the research study from Bangladesh and England. Interviews were conducted with management level professionals. Survey and test questionnaires were developed and randomly directed to other participants to measure their financial and ICT knowledge. The research findings have found that present financial decision making, and the growth of assets depends on an individual adult’s financial capability.

scholarly journals Digital literacy in a post Coronavirus era: a management perspective for small businesses in Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-212
Author(s):  
Arachie Augustine Ebuka ◽  
◽  
Hope Ngozi Nzewi ◽  
Emejulu Gerald ◽  
Kekeocha Mary Ezinne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Qualitative Review ◽  
Digital Ecosystem ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
Review Study ◽  
The Difference

Purpose: This study examined how small businesses in Africa can use technology to grow and sustain their businesses in a post-Covid-19 world. The paper looked at various digital skills needed by these businesses to navigate and profit from the digital space's massive opportunities. It also ascertained the challenges facing them from keying into the digital ecosystem. The place of technology in the fight against Covid-19 was also highlighted. Research methodology: This study is a qualitative review study. Results: The study concluded that possessing some form of digital skills by business owners and employees could be the difference between a competing and a non-competing organization. Limitations: The work did not use methodology as it is a qualitative review study that limited the study's generalizability. Contribution: This work represents a current work in digital technology and how it relates to pandemic situations and economic challenges, especially in Africa. Keywords: Digital, Technology, Covid-19, Small businesses, Management, Skills

scholarly journals Groping in the fog: soaring migrants exhibit wider scatter and do not properly adjust their flight in response to wind under low visibility conditions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Becciu ◽  
Michele Panuccio ◽  
Giacomo Dell'Omo ◽  
Nir Sapir
Keyword(s):  
Flight Speed ◽  
Migration Route ◽  
Atmospheric Conditions ◽  
Flight Behaviour ◽  
Cost Of Transport ◽  
Migration Direction ◽  
Low Visibility ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Migrating Birds ◽  
Behaviour Changes

Atmospheric conditions are known to affect flight propensity, behaviour during flight, and migration route in birds. Yet, the effects of fog have only been rarely studied, although they could disrupt orientation and hamper the accomplishment of the journey. Soaring migrants modulate their flight speed and direction in relation to the wind vector to optimize the cost of transport. Fog could limit the visibility of migrating birds such that they might not be able to detect landmarks that guide them during their journey. Consequently, landmark-based orientation, as well as adjustments of flight speed and direction in relation to wind conditions, could be jeopardized when flying in fog. Using a radar system that operated in a migration bottleneck (Strait of Messina, Italy), we studied the behaviour of soaring birds under variable wind and fog conditions over two consecutive springs (2016 and 2017), discovering that migrating birds exhibited a wider scatter of flight directions and responded differently to wind conditions under fog conditions. Birds flying through fog deviated more from the mean migration direction and increased their speed with increasing crosswinds. In addition, airspeed and groundspeed increased in the direction of the crosswind, causing a lateral drift of the individuals. Furthermore, the response to tailwind was opposite to that predicted by optimal migration theory. Our findings represent the first quantitative empirical evidence of flight behaviour changes when birds migrate through fog and explain why low visibility conditions could risk their migration journey.

26. International Refugee and Migration Law

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Gilbert ◽  
Anna Magdalena Rüsch
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Refugee Status ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Durable Solutions ◽  
Local Integration ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
International Border

This chapter explores the definition of refugee status in international law, its scope and limitations and consequent protection gaps for those forcibly displaced, including internally displaced persons (IDPs), who have crossed no international border. There is no equivalent definition for migrants, but like refugees, asylum-seekers, and IDPs, international human rights law provides a framework for their protection. The chapter explains the difference between refugee status and asylum, focusing on non-refoulement in international law. It discusses the rights that are guaranteed during displacement, particularly those pertaining to detention and humanitarian relief. Given that refugee status is intended to be temporary, the final section looks at cessation and durable solutions, either following voluntary return, through local integration, or resettlement in some third State.

scholarly journals How Digital Natives Learn and Thrive in the Digital Age: Evidence from an Emerging Economy

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3819 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trung Tran ◽  
Manh-Toan Ho ◽  
Thanh-Hang Pham ◽  
Minh-Hoang Nguyen ◽  
Khanh-Linh P. Nguyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Digital Knowledge

As a generation of ‘digital natives,’ secondary students who were born from 2002 to 2010 have various approaches to acquiring digital knowledge. Digital literacy and resilience are crucial for them to navigate the digital world as much as the real world; however, these remain under-researched subjects, especially in developing countries. In Vietnam, the education system has put considerable effort into teaching students these skills to promote quality education as part of the United Nations-defined Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4). This issue has proven especially salient amid the COVID−19 pandemic lockdowns, which had obliged most schools to switch to online forms of teaching. This study, which utilizes a dataset of 1061 Vietnamese students taken from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s “Digital Kids Asia Pacific (DKAP)” project, employs Bayesian statistics to explore the relationship between the students’ background and their digital abilities. Results show that economic status and parents’ level of education are positively correlated with digital literacy. Students from urban schools have only a slightly higher level of digital literacy than their rural counterparts, suggesting that school location may not be a defining explanatory element in the variation of digital literacy and resilience among Vietnamese students. Students’ digital literacy and, especially resilience, also have associations with their gender. Moreover, as students are digitally literate, they are more likely to be digitally resilient. Following SDG4, i.e., Quality Education, it is advisable for schools, and especially parents, to seriously invest in creating a safe, educational environment to enhance digital literacy among students.

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