scholarly journals Scratch Commuinty Blocks: Supporting Children as Data Scientists

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayamindu Dasgupta ◽  
Benjamin Mako Hill
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Computer Programming ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Community For Learning ◽  
Answering Questions ◽  
New System

In this paper, we present Scratch Community Blocks, a new system that enables children to programmatically access, analyze, and visualize data about their participation in Scratch, an online community for learning computer programming. At its core, our approach involves a shift in who analyzes data: from adult data scientists to young learners themselves. We first introduce the goals and design of the system and then demonstrate it by describing example projects that illustrate its functionality. Next, we show through a series of case studies how the system engages children in not only representing data and answering questions with data but also in self-reflection about their own learning and participation.

scholarly journals Puppet As Media In Improving Young Learners’ Participation In Conversation

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wardah Wardah ◽  
Ridha Nabillha
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
The Third ◽  
Fifth Grade Students ◽  
Asking Questions ◽  
Answering Questions

This action research aimed to improve students’ participation in English conversation. The participants were 38 of the fifth grade students of SD Muhammadiyah 2 Pontianak. Observation and fieldnote were used to collect and analyze the data.  The research findings  showed that the use of puppet as media can improve students’ participation in English conversation. In the first cycle, the percentage of the students’ participation in English conversation was 53%: 11 students participated in asking question, 6 students participated in answering questions,  and 3 students participated in giving opinions. In the second cycle, the students’ participation improved to 61%: 14 students participated in asking question, 8 students participated in answering question,  and 4 students participated in giving opinions. Finally, in the third cycle, the percentage of students’ participation was 74%: 14 students participated in asking questions, 11 students participated in answering questions,  and 5 students participated in giving opinions. Cycle two and three  showed improvement on the students’ participation in asking questions, answering questions, and giving opinions when being taught by using puppet. Hence, Puppet as media can improve students’ participation in English conversation. Keywords: Puppet, Young Learners, Conversation

Virtual Collaboration and Community

2011 ◽  
pp. 2600-2611 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Borda ◽  
Jonathan P. Bowen
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Online Community ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Virtual Organization ◽  
Collaborative Practice ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Virtual Collaboration

This chapter introduces the concept of a Virtual Organization (VO), using the Internet to link geographically separated participants in an efficient and novel manner. In particular, the chapter contrasts the attributes of Project VOs and Community VOs. The former tend to be more formal and arise for a particular collaborative goal with a limited lifetime. The latter are less formal and more open-ended, with a less specific purpose, largely aimed at developing an online community as an end in itself. The features of Project and Community VOs are compared and the various technologies are discussed. Two case studies are presented as examples. This is a rapidly changing area with new technologies becoming rapidly available, but the underlying concepts and reasons for the existence of VOs in the support of virtual collaborative practice remain more stable.

scholarly journals The Coevolution of Media and Politics in Taiwan: Implications for Political Communications

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-110
Author(s):  
Jonathan Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Political Communications ◽  
The Media ◽  
Empirical Case Studies ◽  
New System

Over the course of democratisation, Taiwan’s communications environment has experienced significant changes. Liberalisation and commercialisation of the media, and the emergence and popularisation of digital, have substantially altered the information environment and the expectations and behaviours of both citizens and political actors. This article explores the implications of these developments for political communications, and the vitality of Taiwan’s democracy. The article combines a conceptual framework rooted in mediatisation and hybrid media logics with empirical case studies on election campaigning, social movements, and other modes of political communication. It demonstrates how a new system of coevolving media, civil society, and political spheres is taking shape, characterised by complexity, heterogeneity, interdependence, and transition.

Cyber Security Risks in Robotics

2018 ◽  
pp. 1235-1250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ishaani Priyadarshini
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Humanoid Robots ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Rapid Rate ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Controlled Systems ◽  
Current State ◽  
Day By Day ◽  
New System

With technology flourishing at a rapid rate, humans have been able to achieve considerable heights of success. Accomplishment of tasks nowadays is either a click away or a command away in most of the technological arenas. One such realm of technology is that of Robotics which has been there for almost a century and continues advancing day by day. The evolution of robotics has ranged from the basic remote controlled systems to humanoid robots. With applications as well as accuracy increasing for every new system implemented, security risks too have been making their way into the new invention. Since different robots have been created for different purposes in different fields like the defense, household, medical or the space, protecting systems against their exploitation is of utmost importance as these fields incorporate sensitive as well as intricate tasks. This chapter focuses on the security aspects of Robotics. The necessity of Cyber security in Robotics has been explored by taking different kinds of robots used in different fields. The current state of Robotics is vulnerable to many risks and several case studies have been highlighted to support the need of securing Robotics by identifying several risks to which it is vulnerable. Apart from that mitigation strategies have been discussed to secure the domain of Robotics. An attack comparison has been made for three robots in analyzing them against the vulnerabilities faced by them.

Semantification of Large Corpora of Technical Documentation

2016 ◽  
pp. 171-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Furth ◽  
Joachim Baumeister
Keyword(s):  
Data Quality ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Comprehensive Approach ◽  
Semantic Search ◽  
Actual Data ◽  
Technical Documentation ◽  
Access Methods ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Technological Opportunities ◽  
New System

The complexity of machines has grown dramatically in the past years. Today, they are built as a complex functional network of mechanics, electronics, and hydraulics. Thus, the technical documentation became a fundamental source for service technicians in their daily work. The technicians need fast and focused access methods to handle the massive volumes of documentation. For this reason, semantic search emerged as the new system paradigm for the presentation of technical documentation. However, the existent large corpora of legacy documentation are usually not semantically prepared. This fact creates an invincible gap between new technological opportunities and the actual data quality at companies. This chapter presents a novel and comprehensive approach for the semantification of large volumes of legacy technical documents. The approach espescially tackles the veracity and variety existent in technical documentation and makes explicit use of their typical characteristics. The experiences with the implementation and the learned benefits are discussed in industrial case studies.

Recreating Experiences: Improving the Validity of Data

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 44-51
Author(s):  
David Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Accurate Data ◽  
Inaccurate Data ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes ◽  
Interview Survey ◽  
Asking Questions ◽  
Answering Questions

This paper explores the dynamics of peoples' responses to questions and uses case studies to explore ways in which the validity of data can be improved. Much social research takes for granted that the process of asking questions through interview, survey or focus groups provides accurate data about behaviour, perceptions and attitudes. However, the literature suggests that many questionnaires produce inaccurate data. Cognitive psychologists report that people tend to minimise the difficult recall or imaginative tasks when answering questions. Instead, respondents use ‘schemas’ or ‘scripts’ to interpret and respond to their immediate situation. A schema provides a ‘logic’ or ‘rationality’ that informs their responses. Some practitioners have found that they get more robust results by asking respondents to recreate mentally, specific events before asking questions based on those events.

scholarly journals Human Identity as Freedom Statement in the Philosophy of Child Education

wisdom ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 113-125
Author(s):  
Nadiia ADAMENKO ◽  
Liudmyla OBLOVA ◽  
Olena ALEKSANDROVA ◽  
Lana KHRYPKO ◽  
Oksana MAKSYMETS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Mechanism Of Action ◽  
Methodological Error ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Child Education ◽  
Cross Sectional Studies ◽  
New System

The purpose of this article is to reveal the specific features of personality-oriented education and to consider how a person, being in dialogue with another person, can declare freedom only by an act of own free will. To achieve the goal set, the authors have used a set of theoretical and empirical methods of analysis, description, comparison, extrapolation, synthesis, hermeneutic methodology, and a method of implication. Cross-sectional studies and case studies have also been used at the intersection of philosophy and psychology. It is emphasized that in the Ukrainian framework of the representation, this problem demonstrates the following – the “old” system of education, formed on the principle of necessity, has demonstrated its inef- fective mechanism of action through a system of prohibitions and oppression. The “new” system of educa- tion, built on the principle of freedom, relies on its effectiveness, rejecting necessity and eliminating com- pulsion. However, the methodological error of creating something new by destroying the old and ineffi- cient is becoming more and more evident.

scholarly journals TEACHERS� BELIEFS ON TEACHER-STUDENTS INTERACTION IN YOUNG LEARNERS� ENGLISH CLASS

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Maria Setyaningsih Nernere
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Teacher Talk ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
English Classes ◽  
English Class ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Teacher Students

Researchers find that teacher plays dominant role in managing the teacher- students interaction, the important aspect affecting the language acquisition process in young learners� class. Hence, to make sure that the teacher-students interaction goes well for achieving the classroom goals, how the teacher manages the interaction should be investigated further. As beliefs can affect how people act, this research aims to investigate the teachers� belief on teacher-students interaction in young learners� English class. This is a qualitative research using direct observation in two English classes at two different Elementary schools and in-depth interview with two English teachers as the data collecting techniques. The data revealed that the teachers� beliefs affecting how the teacher-students interaction goes consist of beliefs about goals, process, and source of teacher- students interaction. Overall, the interactions were done toachieve two goals namely promoting language acquisition and controlling learning atmosphere. The source of interaction namely teacher talk was adjusted to young learners� characteristics to make the process of learning meaningful. This finding gives conceptual insight about how the system of teacher-students interaction in English learning process in Elementary schools works. Then, it may be beneficial for the teachers as a means supporting self- reflection, schools� evaluation and also for the educational practitioners who want to investigate the TSs interaction in more details.

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