scholarly journals Teaching digital skills to future teachers: a distance workshop experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-17
Author(s):  
Floriana Falcinelli ◽  
Caterina Moscetti
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Educational Technologies ◽  
Direct Connection ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
School Year ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University

Abstract In the school year 2020–2021, the Covid-19 pandemic imposed distance learning (in Italian, the DAD acronym is used). Therefore, the Degree Course in Primary Education Sciences of the University of Perugia has proposed an innovative programme for the training of future teachers by developing a distance learning laboratory focusing coding and computational thinking applied to teaching in kindergarten and primary school. During the educational technologies laboratory, held by Prof. Floriana Falcinelli, the students experimented coding both without computer (unplugged) and using the Scratch software. The programmed animations and video games were in direct connection with the Lifelong Kindergarten of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, where Scratch was created. The highly innovative aspects concerned both the proposed contents and the dimension of interaction and collaboration as entirely developed in online environments.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL SKILLS FOR FUTURE TEACHERS BASED ON CROSS-SUBJECT INTEGRATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 95-102
Author(s):  
G.K. Sholpankulova ◽  
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Sh.Zh. Kolumbayeva ◽  
B.T. Mahmetova ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
The University ◽  
Interdisciplinary Integration ◽  
Subject Integration

Today, the study of the problem of interdisciplinary integration in professional education is a historically formed direction and has been studied by scientists deeply enough. However, within the framework of the implementation of the competence-based approach in teaching, which is the focus of state compulsory education standards, the problem of interdisciplinary integration acquires a new meaning. The essence of the new meaning of interdisciplinary integration is substantiated by the modern socio-cultural conditions of globalization, informatization, interdisciplinarity, and digitalization. Interdisciplinary integration is the applied focus of the components of the educational process of the university (goal, result, content, form and methodology of teaching) and manifests itself in the relationship of academic disciplines with the content and technologies of professional activity of future teachers, as well as in the consistency of the processes of teaching and upbringing at the university. The globalization of education refers to the process of creating a worldwide unified education system, which erases the differences between the educational systems included in it. Informatization of education is a process when the sphere of education is provided with the methodology and practice of the development and optimal use of modern information technologies, focused on the implementation of the psychological and pedagogical goals of training and education. Digital skills in the modern world are necessary and must be complemented by cross-cutting interpersonal skills, as the ability to effectively interact in the current environment of distance learning. In the process of distance learning, video conferences using computer communication, virtual environment, online lectures and seminars are actively used. A distinctive feature of distance learning is computer-based learning, which contributes to the development of digital skills, since it is based on the student's independent cognitive activity, is active and personality-oriented. The above requires the development of digital skills in future teachers based on cross-subject integration. This article examines the problem of developing digital skills in future teachers based on interdisciplinary integration, and also provides a meaningful characteristic of digital skills.

scholarly journals THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE JORDANIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS POSSESS DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP SKILLS: مدى امتلاك طلبة الجامعات الأردنية الحكومية لمهارات المواطنة الرقمية

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khawla Rasmi Al-Rashed
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Digital Citizenship ◽  
Safety Skills ◽  
School Year ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
University Of Jordan ◽  
Citizenship Skills ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

This study aimed to reveal the degree to which the Jordanian university students possess digital citizenship skills through the selected set of variables: (gender, type of the college, the university, the academic year- level).Using a descriptive analytical method, a (45) item questioner was developed divided into three categories. The first, digital responsibility skills. The second, digital skills and the third, digital safety skills. The sample consisted of (5200) students, who were randomly selected form (6) universities. Results indicated that the degree of possessing digital skills was high. Whereas possessing the digital safety and digital responsibility skills was moderate. The study indicated that there were no statistically significant differences at the level of significance (α = 0.05) between the mean responses of the respondents according to different variables (sex, college and school year), while it pointed out that there are differences according to variable difference (University) between the University of Jordan and Mu'tah University in favor of University of Jordan.

William Barton Rogers and the Southern Sieve: Revisiting Science, Slavery, and Higher Learning in the Old South

2005 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Angulo
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
University Of Virginia ◽  
Educational Thought ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Technological Institutes ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
Century Science

William Barton Rogers, conceptual founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pursued two interrelated careers in nineteenth-century America: one centered on his activities in science and the other on his higher educational reform efforts. His scientific peers knew him as a geologist and natural philosopher, director of the first geological survey of Virginia, author of over one hundred publications in science, and promoter of professionalization. His colleagues in higher education, meanwhile, thought of him as the reform-minded professor at the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia, who later left the South and established one of America's first technological institutes. Comparatively little has been written about either of these areas of Rogers's life and career. We know much more about the scientific and educational thought of such figures as Louis Agassiz at Harvard, Benjamin Silliman at Yale, Joseph Henry at Princeton, and Alexander Dallas Bache at the helm of the Coast Survey. The literature on Rogers, by comparison, has offered little insight into his life and even less about his relationship to broader developments in nineteenth-century science and higher learning.

Using Mammon for Righteousness

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Marie Johnson
Keyword(s):  
University Of California ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Intellectual Achievement ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University

Chapter 5 explores what happened when women approached existing coeducational schools offering restricted gifts to benefit women. These donations either forced a school to open its doors to women or increased the number of women admitted by providing scholarships for women or erecting a women’s building or a women’s dormitory. Like the college founders, these donors believed that women were capable of the same intellectual achievement as men but found that many of America’s best universities resisted coeducation. The women in this chapter, including Mary Garrett, and Phoebe Hearst and the gifts they gave show how money could be wielded to force changes that would benefit women, in the form of access to education and professions formerly restricted to men. Moreover, coeducation at these schools, including Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkeley, was especially significant. If women were welcomed at these important institutions, they could demonstrate their intellectual and professional capabilities and equality with men.

Low noise engine design for the Silent Aircraft Initiative

2009 ◽  
Vol 113 (1147) ◽  
pp. 599-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Aircraft Design ◽  
Low Noise ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Engine Noise ◽  
Novel Technologies ◽  
Component Design ◽  
Design Changes ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University

Abstract The Silent Aircraft Initiative was a Cambridge-MIT Institute programme involving a large team of researchers from both the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The aim of the project was to produce a concept aircraft design that would be so quiet it would be imperceptible in the urban environments around airports.. This paper gives an overview of how all the sources of engine noise were carefully addressed within the Silent Aircraft design. Novel technologies, a new engine configuration, improved airframe integration, new operational procedures and advanced component design were all required in order to reduce the overall engine noise level to the Silent Aircraft target. The study suggests that in order to dramatically reduce the noise of future aircraft engines a number of major design changes must be combined.

Rebel Genius

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara H. Abraham
Keyword(s):  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Scientific Investigations ◽  
American Science ◽  
Cognitive Neurosciences ◽  
History Of ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Iconic Status ◽  
The University ◽  
The Brain

Warren S. McCulloch (1898-1969) has become an icon of the American cybernetics movement and of current work in the cognitive neurosciences. Much of this legacy stems from his classic 1943 work with Walter Pitts on the logic of neural networks, and from his colourful role as chairman of the Macy Conferences on Cybernetics (1946-1953). This biographical work looks beyond McCulloch’s iconic status by exploring the varied scientific, personal, and institutional contexts of McCulloch’s life. By doing so, the book presents McCulloch as a transdisciplinary investigator who took on many scientific identities beyond that of a cybernetician: scientific philosopher, neurophysiologist, psychiatrist, poet, mentor-collaborator, and engineer, and finally, his public persona towards the end of his life, the rebel genius. The book argues that these identities were neither products of McCulloch’s own will nor were they simply shaped by his institutional contexts. In integrating context and agency, the book as provides a more nuanced and rich understanding of McCulloch’s role in the history of American science as well as the institutional contexts of scientific investigations of the brain and mind: in particular at Yale University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The book argues that one of McCulloch’s most important contributions was opening up new ways of understanding the brain: no longer simply an object of medical investigation, the brain became the centre of the multidisciplinary neurosciences.

scholarly journals Meet the APSA Council and Officers

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (01) ◽  
pp. 151-154
Keyword(s):  
Harvard University ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
University Of Southern California ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
New Members ◽  
Reed College ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

As noted in the October issue ofPS, G. Bingham Powell, Jr., the Marie E .and Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester, became APSA's 108th president on September 4, 2011, at the close of the APSA Annual Meeting. Eight new members of the APSA council were elected fall 2011. The new members are Paul Gronke, Reed College; Ange-Marie Hancock, University of Southern California; David A. Lake, University of California, San Diego; Taeku Lee, University of California, Berkeley; Kenneth J. Meier, Texas A&M University; Kathleen Thelen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Stephen M. Walt, Harvard University; and Angelia R. Wilson, University of Manchester.

scholarly journals Prospects for Coordinated Observations with XTE

1995 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. B. Giles ◽  
K. Jahoda ◽  
J. H. Swank ◽  
W. Zhang
Keyword(s):  
High Energy ◽  
High Time Resolution ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Large Area ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Transient Sources ◽  
Sky Monitor ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Proportional Counter Array ◽  
The University

AbstractThe X-ray Timing Explorer (XTE) is a NASA satellite designed to perform high-time-resolution studies of known X-ray sources. The two main experiments are a large-area proportional counter array (PCA) from the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and a high-energy X-ray timing experiment (HEXTE) from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). The PCA data is processed by an electronic data system (EDS) built by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that performs many parallel processing analysis functions for on-board evaluation and data compression. MIT also provide an all-sky monitor (ASM) experiment so that XTE can be slewed rapidly to new transient sources. The spacecraft provides a mean science telemetry rate for the PCA of ~20 kilobits per second (kbps), with bursts to 256 kbps for durations of 30 minutes. Photons are tagged to 1 μs and absolute timing should be better than 100 μs. XTE is due for launch in late August 1995 and the first NASA Research Announcement (NRA) is due out in January 1995. This paper summarises XTE’s performance and then discusses the interactive and flexible operations of the satellite and some of the science it can do. These features should make XTE a productive spacecraft for coordinated observation programs.

scholarly journals Zoom Technology as an Effective Tool for Distance Learning in Teaching English to Medical Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 457-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Guzacheva
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Educational Technologies ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Distance Learning Technologies ◽  
The University

The paper presents issues associated with the introduction of effective educational technologies to distance learning a foreign language at the university. The review of the author’s use of Zoom technology in medical education is presented. The current problems of introduction of distance learning technologies in teaching English language to medical students are determined. The experience of distance learning for teaching medical students a foreign language by the electronic educational resource Zoom is described.

scholarly journals An Industry of R&D

2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (10) ◽  
pp. 44-47
Author(s):  
Harry Hutchinson
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Systems ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
University Of Munich ◽  
World Class ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
The Tropics

This article discusses how Singapore is amassing a brain trust to compensate for resources that nature didn’t provide to it. CREATE or “Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise” is one of the most ambitious projects of Singapore’s National Research Foundation. CREATE seeks to unite Singapore’s universities with world-class research institutions to study issues ranging from urban planning to medical treatment. The organization has partnerships with 10 foreign universities, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Technical University of Munich, Cambridge University, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. There are five research groups in CREATE’s partnership with Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The research areas are infectious diseases, environmental sensing and modeling, biosystems and micromechanics, urban mobility, and low-energy electronic systems. The University of California, Berkeley, has two research programs with CREATE. One aims to improve the efficiency of buildings in the tropics, and the other is working on raising the electrical output of photovoltaic devices.

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