A Suggestion to Activate Middle School Chinese Online Classes : The Current State from a Survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 123 ◽  
pp. 139-176
Author(s):  
Young-kyung Cho ◽  
Seung-hee Shin
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Current State

scholarly journals The Hidden Shadow of Coronavirus on Education in Developing Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuheir N Khlaif ◽  
Soheil Salha ◽  
Shahid Fareed ◽  
Hadi Rashed
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
School Students ◽  
Digital Ethics ◽  
Timely Feedback ◽  
Digital Gap ◽  
Teachers And Parents

The aim of this paper is to investigate the challenges associated with emergency remote teaching in the developing countries of Palestine, Libya, and Afghanistan, as reported by middle-school students, their parents, and teachers. These countries have been struggling with an unstable and violent situation for decades. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 60 participants from the three countries and 60 online classes were observed. Findings revealed that COVID-19 widened the digital gap among students and families, which created challenges in terms of online class attendance. In addition, violation of students’ and parents’ digital privacy emerged as another key challenge to emergency remote teaching. However, teacher presence and timely feedback in synchronous online sessions strengthened students’ engagement within the emergency remote teaching environment. Overall, emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 crisis deepened inequities across students and infringed upon the digital ethics of students, teachers, and parents.

scholarly journals Bridging the Gap: Securitizing Lack of Accessible Education in Indonesia During the Covid-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 156
Author(s):  
Aloysius Efraim Leonard ◽  
Ruth Latreia Theo Saphira
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Current State ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Securitization Theory ◽  
Development Gap

The Global South continues to face new threats and challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The debate over health and economy continues and often leaves one aspect out of the equation: education. Especially in Southeast Asia, where regional and domestic disparity still lingers. Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) acknowledged that the development gap remained one of the most crucial issues in the region. Using Wæver and Buzan’s securitization theory and Japanese approach of human security, the article tries to prove why the current state of education should be considered as a new non-traditional security threat and should be securitized by countries in the region. The article will use a qualitative method and hypothesizes that the inability for states to ensure quality education during the pandemic will affect the quality of the states’ human capital. The pandemic forces education institutions to rely on online learning. However, not every student has access towards required facilities such as, internet connection, gadgets, technologies, etc. Students in underdeveloped areas might struggle to participate in online classes, forcing them to be left behind. In the long-run, this will slow down Southeast Asian countries’ progress in tackling the development gap.

scholarly journals Pengembangan Kompetensi Guru menggunakan Aplikasi Google Classroom pada Masa Pandemic Covid-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Nurhijrah - ◽  
Syarifah - Suryana
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Teacher Competency ◽  
Assessment Indicator ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Addie Model

The development of teacher competency in using google classroom during the pvidemic covid_19 aims to develop teacher competency in managing online classes using the google classroom application, the method used in this research is the research and development (R&D) method that refers to the ADDIE model with the subject The trial was a teacher at Garudaya Bontonompo Middle School. The results showed an increase in the competency of Garudaya SMKS teachers in using the google classroom application by looking at improvements in each assessment indicator that on average were in the very competent criteria after conducting the pretest and posttest.

The Conceptual Speed-Bump: Losing Potential STEM Students in the Transition From Elementary School to Middle School

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Floersheim ◽  
Jonathan Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Grade Levels ◽  
Current State ◽  
Stem Disciplines ◽  
Performance Effects ◽  
8Th Grade ◽  
Stem Students

Many educators in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines hope to improve the number of students interested in and prepared for these more difficult disciplines through innovative teaching, demonstrations and hosted camps. Research has shown that motivation is a much smaller part of the issue; student learning outcomes are much more sensitive to fundamental academic ability. Current curriculum design fails most students miserably in helping them bridge the gap from concrete learning to abstract thought and understanding in the middle school years. Thus, they are ill-prepared to engage in the more advanced learning required to pursue the STEM disciplines, a result that no amount of innovative teaching can correct. This paper will review the performance data from industrial nations at the 4th Grade and 8th Grade levels and illustrate curriculum differences between industrial countries producing higher percentages of STEM graduates. Examination of the performance effects of many variables, including number and sequencing of topics studied, time spent on homework, teacher credentials, access to technology, class size and dollars allocated per student, yields some surprising results. The problem is not as sensitive to many of these variables as one might expect. However, the variables that seem to provide promise for significant improvement from the current state of STEM education are related to topic coverage and manner of presentation. Final recommendations include reduction in the number of topics introduced in any given year with a corresponding reorganization of the curricula, to allow STEM teachers in the middle school to focus on the transitional learning that must occur to prepare for more advanced studies.

Understanding Middle School Students’ Perceptions of the Usefulness of Online Classes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Cai ◽  
Harrison Hao Yang ◽  
He Yang ◽  
Xiaochen Wang ◽  
Xiangyang He ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
School Students

scholarly journals Confronting Covid-19 with a Paradigm Shift in Teaching and Learning: A Study on Online Classes

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Shamim Mondol ◽  
Mohammad Golam Mohiuddin
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Current State ◽  
Viable Solution ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Teaching Learning

There has been an emergency paradigm shift in teaching and learning in the private universities of Bangladesh resulting from the complete shutdown of the educational institutions for an indefinite period due to Covid-19. While the shift to online classes remains operative with doubts and enthusiasm, the activities showed a considerable achievement and positive shift in attitude towards this mode in the past few weeks which showcase the prospects of online classes with some areas to address and problems to be solved. So, the stakeholders’ opinions, experiences and suggestions can be handy in capitalizing on, and utilizing this mode in coming days. Drawing on data from both the students and faculty members of different departments of Green University of Bangladesh (GUB), we illustrate the need to address and improve several areas including current state of mind of the stakeholders, potentials of the online classes as an alternative to onsite classes, the need for assurance of some facilities and orientation of this type of techno-based new modes as precautionary to emergency. Though online instructions are not new in many parts of the world, we argue that it is here in Bangladesh a new experience with a very limited practice, and so it requires some corrections, improvisations and special considerations on the part of the concerned authorities to make the mode a viable solution to teaching-learning in the impasse resulting from the complete shutdown in the current crisis.                                          

The Current State of Motivation to Read Among Middle School Students

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 466-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle J. Kelley ◽  
Emmeline O. Decker
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Motivation To Read ◽  
Current State

ESEM - A multipurpose surface Electron Microscope

1986 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 632-633 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.D. Danilatos
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Environmental Scanning ◽  
Gas Composition ◽  
Saturated Water Vapor ◽  
Surface Electron ◽  
Current State ◽  
Saturated Water ◽  
New Type ◽  
Temperature And Pressure

Over recent years a new type of electron microscope - the environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) - has been developed for the examination of specimen surfaces in the presence of gases. A detailed series of reports on the system has appeared elsewhere. A review summary of the current state and potential of the system is presented here.The gas composition, temperature and pressure can be varied in the specimen chamber of the ESEM. With air, the pressure can be up to one atmosphere (about 1000 mbar). Environments with fully saturated water vapor only at room temperature (20-30 mbar) can be easily maintained whilst liquid water or other solutions, together with uncoated specimens, can be imaged routinely during various applications.

Recent applications of TEM to the study of interfaces

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 308-309
Author(s):  
C. Barry Carter
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Sample Preparation ◽  
Grain Boundaries ◽  
Diffuse Scattering ◽  
Imaging Techniques ◽  
Amorphous Material ◽  
Contrast Imaging ◽  
Current State ◽  
Actual Nature ◽  
High Resolution Images

This paper will review the current state of understanding of interface structure and highlight some of the future needs and problems which must be overcome. The study of this subject can be separated into three different topics: 1) the fundamental electron microscopy aspects, 2) material-specific features of the study and 3) the characteristics of the particular interfaces. The two topics which are relevant to most studies are the choice of imaging techniques and sample preparation. The techniques used to study interfaces in the TEM include high-resolution imaging, conventional diffraction-contrast imaging, and phase-contrast imaging (Fresnel fringe images, diffuse scattering). The material studied affects not only the characteristics of the interfaces (through changes in bonding, etc.) but also the method used for sample preparation which may in turn have a significant affect on the resulting image. Finally, the actual nature and geometry of the interface must be considered. For example, it has become increasingly clear that the plane of the interface is particularly important whenever at least one of the adjoining grains is crystalline.A particularly productive approach to the study of interfaces is to combine different imaging techniques as illustrated in the study of grain boundaries in alumina. In this case, the conventional imaging approach showed that most grain boundaries in ion-thinned samples are grooved at the grain boundary although the extent of this grooving clearly depends on the crystallography of the surface. The use of diffuse scattering (from amorphous regions) gives invaluable information here since it can be used to confirm directly that surface grooving does occur and that the grooves can fill with amorphous material during sample preparation (see Fig. 1). Extensive use of image simulation has shown that, although information concerning the interface can be obtained from Fresnel-fringe images, the introduction of artifacts through sample preparation cannot be lightly ignored. The Fresnel-fringe simulation has been carried out using a commercial multislice program (TEMPAS) which was intended for simulation of high-resolution images.

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