scholarly journals Opening the Journey of Exploring Cultural Geography for Students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shucheng Liu ◽  
Quiru Wu
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
School Library ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Western China ◽  
Rural County ◽  
Inquiry Based Learning ◽  
Geographical Environment ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Design Factors ◽  
Learning Projects

In modern society, how to improve students' cognitive abilities is an important challenge facing high schools. The school library as the information center of the school should fully play its role in addressing this challenge. With the help of Evergreen Education Foundation, the library team of Danfeng High School located in a rural county of western China, initiated the collaboration with subject teachers to guide students in learning. After several years of experiments, we found that the inquiry-based learning projects jointly developed by librarians and teachers can help improve students' cognitive abilities. This paper studied an example of these projects, “Cultural Differences and Geographical Environment" project, co-developed by a geography teacher and a librarian. By reviewing the project process and assessing its outcomes, we summarized the design factors contributed to the improvement of the students’ cognitive abilities, and reflected upon what can be done better, to benefit the future development.

scholarly journals Associations of Body Mass Index, Visceral Fat Area, Waist Circumference, and Waist-To-Hip Ratio with Cognitive Function in Western China: Results from A WCHAT Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaolei Liu ◽  
Xiaoyan Chen ◽  
Lisha Hou ◽  
Xin Xia ◽  
Fengjuan Hu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Waist Circumference ◽  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Visceral Fat ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Strong Association ◽  
Western China ◽  
Visceral Fat Area ◽  
Waist To Hip Ratio

Abstract ObjectivesThis study examined the relationship between cognitive performance and obesity parameters, such as body mass index (BMI), visceral fat area (VFA), waist circumference (WC), and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) in western China.Study designA cross-sectional studyMethods3914 participants, aged >50 years, were recruited in this study. Anthropometrics measurements, life-style factors, chronic disease comorbidities, and sleep qualities were recorded for each participant. Among the anthropometrics, BMP, WC, and WHR were assessed using standard procedures, while VHA was calculated using bioelectrical impedance analysis. Cognitive performance was estimated using the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire (SPMSQ). Finally, relationships between cognitive abilities and BMI, VFA, WC, and WHR were evaluated using univariate and multivariate regression analyses. ResultsCognitive decline (CD) occurred at a rate of 13.29% among the 3914 participants. A strong correlation was observed between cognitive abilities and BMI of male patients aged 50-59 yrs (OR 1.116,95% CI1.002-1.242), in the adjusted model. Alternately, WHR was shown to be significantly related to CD in females aged >70 years (OR 0.041, 95% CI0.002-0.671). WC was shown to have a strong association with CD in males (OR 1.023,95% CI1.003-1.024). Lastly, WHR was closely connected to CD in participants with BMI < 25 kg/m2 (OR 0.022,95% CI0.002-0.209).Conclusions Our findings suggest that a higher middle age BMI is associated with CD, whereas, in the elderly population, a higher WHR is related to improved cognitive performance. Further investigation is warranted to elucidate a relationship between VFA and CD.

scholarly journals Pippi's Pancakes - Culinary Jam Sessions in the School Library

2021 ◽  
pp. 341-350
Author(s):  
Marianne Ageberg ◽  
Margaretha Holstenson
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
School Library ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
New Thinking

Project-based learning is a way of working which is gaining ground in Swedish schools. The Swedish Government has recently decreed that senior high school students must carry out a fairly extensive piece of research in the form of a project. The project has to be finished in one and a half years from preparatory planning to final presentation. Working with projects has now more clearly made the School Library in Sweden into an educational resource. In our seminar we will give you some idea of how project-based learning is being practised as teamwork between librarians, students and teachers in two Swedish senior high school libraries. We show how we guide teachers and students in our libraries, now well equipped with traditional media as well as modern technology. We will also point out specific problems that we meet and draw attention to new thinking about learning in modern society.

scholarly journals Theory of Mind Measurements and Mechanisms: An Investigation of Construct Validity and Cognitive Processes in Theory of Mind Tasks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Ester Navarro Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Fluid Intelligence ◽  
Metalinguistic Awareness ◽  
Latent Factors ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Crystallized Intelligence ◽  
Important Challenge

Understanding the perspectives of others is a critical skill. Theory of mind (ToM) is an essential ability for social competence and communication, and it is necessary for understanding behaviors that differ from our own (Premack and Woodruff, 1978). Although all individuals possess a ToM to varying degrees, bilinguals are especially adept to perspective-taking. Research has reported that bilinguals outperform monolinguals in ToM tasks (e.g., Goetz, 2003; Rubio-Fernandez & Glucksberg, 2012). However, the mechanisms underlying this effect are unclear. Studying individual differences in ToM performance between bilinguals and monolinguals can help explain these mechanisms. Yet this promising area of research faces an important challenge: the lack of psychometric research on ToM measurement. Recent research suggests that tests that measure the ToM construct might not be as reliable as previously thought (Warnell & Redcay, 2019). This hinders the interpretation of experimental and correlational findings and puts into question the validity of the ToM construct. This dissertation addresses these two questions empirically to improve our understanding of what constitutes ToM. Study 1 examines the structure of ToM, crystallized intelligence (Gc), and fluid intelligence (Gf) to understand (a) whether ToM constitutes a construct separate from other cognitive abilities and (b) to explore whether tasks of ToM present adequate construct validity. For this, three confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) were conducted. The results demonstrated that a model with three latent factors (ToM, Gf and Gc) did not adequately fit the data and was not significantly different from a model with only two latent factors (ToM-Gf and Gc). In addition, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) showed that two of the ToM tasks loaded onto a Gf factor whereas one of the tasks loaded onto a third factor by itself. Finally, an exploratory network analysis (NMA) was conducted to observe relationships among the tasks. The results showed that the ToM tasks were no more related to each other than to some tasks of Gf and Gc, and that ToM tasks did not form a consistent cluster. Overall, the results of Study 1 suggest that ToM tasks are likely not measuring a monolithic ToM construct. Study 2 examines individual differences in metalinguistic awareness, executive function, and bilingualism as predictors of ToM. The results showed that all variables significantly predicted ToM, but bilingualism was not a significant moderator of ToM. Overall, the findings suggest that in this sample there was no difference in the processes used to predict ToM based on being bilingual or monolingual. Implications for measurement and individual differences in ToM are discussed.

TALK - A Training Program to Encourage Lifelong Learning in School

2007 ◽  
Vol 215 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Schober ◽  
Monika Finsterwald ◽  
Petra Wagner ◽  
Marko Lüftenegger ◽  
Michael Aysner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Educational Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Formative Evaluation ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Motivation To Learn ◽  
Evaluation Design ◽  
Learning Skills

Abstract. Lifelong learning (LLL) is a topic of high political relevance. Within the context of continuous social development toward an “information society,” individuals find themselves facing a number of challenges that they will not be able to surmount successfully if they are not willing to commit to learning over the entire course of their lifetimes. The persistent motivation to learn, as well as the correspondent learning skills, appears to be essential if one is to survive in a modern society. Schools, as a collective institution, have the task of laying the cornerstones of these skills. The present article introduces the training program TALK, which aims to provide teachers with the competencies to systematically implement the enhancement of LLL into their regular educational responsibilities. From the perspective of educational psychology, motivation, self-regulation, social skills, and cognitive abilities are developed as core aspects for LLL in a scholastic context. Building on these, the goals and structure of the TALK program are described, and a summative and formative evaluation design is depicted.

scholarly journals Analysis of individualality and personality factors of computer games addiction

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. V. Grishina ◽  
E. N. Volkova
Keyword(s):  
Computer Games ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Gaming Addiction ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Computer Gaming

Introduction. The problem of informational violence in modern society permeates all spheres of human activity and affects all its structural aspects. Information violence, expressed in imposing false ideals and meanings of human life, neuro-linguistic programming, in public debauchery and pseudo information, has a negative impact on the evolution of human consciousness. A special form of informational violence is computer gaming addiction, which in foreign and domestic psychology is no longer new, but due to serious negative consequences, it does not only  lose its relevance, but also becomes more acute due to an increase in number of  addicted computer players.Materials and methods. The study used theoretical (analysis of psychological, pedagogical and philosophical literature) and empirical methods (questioning, pedagogical observation, testing, stating experiment, forming experiment, quantitative and qualitative analysis) of the study.Results. As a result of the study, factors of individual and personal development were identified that contribute to the formation of computer gaming addiction with  younger adolescence peculiarities of  development of subjectivity were revealed with balanced and unbalanced development of parameters of subjectivity). The survey sample included 146 students aged 10 to 11 (younger adolescence). A comparative analysis of the results of the study of individual personality factors of adolescents with high and low levels of computer gaming addiction showed significant differences (p <0.001).Discussion and conclusions. According to the results of the study, it was revealed that computer games, being an element of the information environment of modern society, have a significant impact on the development of the mental characteristics of a younger teenager. With children having high rates of ICD, there are low cognitive abilities; low indicators on the following parameters of a subjectivity: awareness of the ability to reflect; awareness of freedom of choice and responsibility for it; understanding and acceptance of another, awareness of self-development.

Students' Kinaesthetic Interactions with a Touch-Enabled Virtual Mapping Tool

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Theodosia Prodromou ◽  
Maria Meletiou-Mavrotheris ◽  
Andreas O. Kyriakides
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Tablet Devices ◽  
Inquiry Based Learning ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Mapping Tool ◽  
Virtual Mapping

Recent technology advances have substantially changed the way we teach and learn mathematics providing educators with opportunities for creating novel inquiry-based learning environments by increasing the range and sophistication of possible classroom activities. The affordances provided by mobile technologies can motivate students to engage in authentic problem solving activities that can promote their mathematical learning, and the attainment of important competencies essential in modern society. This chapter reports on the main experiences gained from a study that exploited affordances of tablet devices used by young students (11-year old). Findings from the study indicate that general purpose apps such as Recce that was employed in the current study can scaffold learning of the mathematics curriculum in educationally powerful ways that engage students and promote their mathematical growth.

scholarly journals Geosocial Structure of Modern Russia

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexey Vedernikov ◽  
Ekaterina Zimina ◽  
Tatyana Vedernikova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Geographical Environment ◽  
Administrative Division ◽  
The World ◽  
Federal Districts ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Mixed Types

The article describes the geographical direction in sociology and topicality of modern geosocial investigations. It analyses the concepts «geopolitics» and «geosociology», substantiates the need of identifying geosocial types in modern society. It reveals that the majority of the states in the world are built on the basis of a single geosocial type, while the Russian Federation includes in its borders and its structure several geosocial types, such as: the settled, the settled-forest, the mountainous, the nomadic, the marine, as well as mixed types. It specifies the settled-forest geosocial type to be traditionally dominating in the majority of the Russian regions. It proves that the administrative division of the Russian Federation subjects is often a little artificial, as the same geosocial type, including the ethnos, lives on the territory of different regions and even Federal Districts. The typology obtained will allow further to investigate regularities of ethnos development depending on the geographical environment.

scholarly journals University/School Library Collaborations to Integrate Information Technology into Resource-based Learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 145-154
Author(s):  
Ray H. Doiron
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
School Library ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Collaborative Relationship ◽  
Teacher Librarians ◽  
Learning Projects

If the goal of teacher-librarians is to work with teachers to develop information literacy, then how do we model this collaboration for pre-service teachers during their teacher education program? This question was explored in a research study involving university researchers, teachers, and teacher-librarians in six elementary schools in Canada. Learning projects arose from collaborations among the pre-service teachers, classroom teachers, and teacherlibrarian as they developed IT projects that were integrated into the pre-service practicum. Data were collected on the learning strategies children used and on the collaborative relationship established between the pre-service teachers and the teacher-librarian. This study tracked how pre-service teachers reacted to working with teacher-librarians. Results indicated these projects created authentic environments where pre-service teachers learned the role of the teacher-librarian and how the curriculum development process associated with resource-based learning develops through school library programs.

scholarly journals ANALYZING REQUIREMENTS AND DEVELOPING PROTOTYPE OF TRAINING SOFTWARE FOR MOBILE PLATFORMS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (92) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Oksana Mnushka ◽  
Bohdan Kotenko ◽  
Volodymyr Savchenko
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Platforms ◽  
Component Development ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Research Goal ◽  
The Impact

Problem. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become an integral part of modern society in the 21st century. The impact of these technologies on the development of humanity is ambiguous and assessed by experts from very positive to very negative often based on the same facts. The use of ICT in education is the subject of basic and practical research. Goal. The aim of the work is to analyze the requirements and develop a prototype curriculum for young children, which includes analysis of the task and the audiovisual component, development of the prototype at the level of the framework program, whose content may vary depending on the task. Methodology. The analytical methods of research were used for the development and application of training software. Results. The means for the implementation of a development application for young children were analyzed, taking into account the age characteristics of the perception of audiovisual content. The cognitive abilities of children of different age categories were analyzed. Based on the analysis of requirements, the architecture of the training application was developed and its prototype was implemented for working on mobile platforms. The set of IDEF0-diagrams for training applications for children from 2 up to 8–10 years of  age was obtained. The prototype of training application was tested by a common task. Originality. All results were obtained based on the research of children’s learning problems. Practical value. The prototype of mobile software can be used for making specified applications not only for children.

scholarly journals Promotion of creative learning exchange philosophy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tzong-Yue Chen
Keyword(s):  
School Library ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Incremental Change ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
Creative Learning ◽  
Concept Building ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Systematic Thinking ◽  
School Curricula

Traditional approaches to organizational management focused on the analysis of individual problems and incremental change. In a modern society full of rapidly evolving science technology, what used to work seems no longer to suffice as schools continue to experience complex changes. It is becoming increasingly more difficult to see the consequences as a result of our decisions and to learn from experience. No longer can a person derive a sense of security and comfort from merely doing a day's work for a day's pay. Neither can an employee quietly pursue his or her job, while totally unconcerned about what other partners are doing. Sad to say, not much can be expected of today’s school curricula to meet enterprises’ requirements. This explains why a school library plays an important role in putting together the school’s and local community’s resources for the purpose of promoting readers creative learning exchange(CLE) concept, building in them a systematic thinking model and developing their capabilities in solving problems.

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