Introduction to Computational Thinking With MI-GO

2022 ◽  
pp. 948-969
Author(s):  
Maria José Loureiro ◽  
Filipe T. Tavares Moreira ◽  
Susana Senos
Keyword(s):  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Tangible Programming ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
Young Students

The present study is part of a research about computational thinking and tangible robotics. A robot in development in Portugal, MI-GO robot, is part of the basis of this research. The objective is to determine the attitude of young students concerning tangible robots and to observe in what measure they contribute to the development of their STEM skills. On the other hand, it also aims to know what are the opinions of educators, teachers, and researchers concerning MI-GO's characteristics and what is their value, adequacy and suitability for the educational grades of young learners (from 5 to 10). The study consists on a qualitative approach based in a case study methodology, using the techniques of questionnaire and observation. At first the data reveal a clear adhesion to the robot and tangible programming by learners, and the researchers that analyzed the device consider it was a very adequate one and presented several suggestions to improve it.

Introduction to Computational Thinking With MI-GO

2019 ◽  
pp. 110-137
Author(s):  
Maria José de Miranda Nazaré Loureiro ◽  
Filipe T. Tavares Moreira ◽  
Susana Senos
Keyword(s):  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Tangible Programming ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
Young Students

The present study is part of a research about computational thinking and tangible robotics. A robot in development in Portugal, MI-GO robot, is part of the basis of this research. The objective is to determine the attitude of young students concerning tangible robots and to observe in what measure they contribute to the development of their STEM skills. On the other hand, it also aims to know what are the opinions of educators, teachers, and researchers concerning MI-GO's characteristics and what is their value, adequacy and suitability for the educational grades of young learners (from 5 to 10). The study consists on a qualitative approach based in a case study methodology, using the techniques of questionnaire and observation. At first the data reveal a clear adhesion to the robot and tangible programming by learners, and the researchers that analyzed the device consider it was a very adequate one and presented several suggestions to improve it.

scholarly journals What Is WhatsApp for? Developing Transmedia Skills and Informal Learning Strategies Through the Use of WhatsApp—A Case Study With Teenagers From Spain

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630512094288
Author(s):  
Carmen Costa-Sánchez ◽  
Mar Guerrero-Pico
Keyword(s):  
Informal Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Social Content ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Study Methodology

Smartphones and WhatsApp are, respectively, the medium and application that Spanish teenagers most want. However, research into the use of WhatsApp is still quantitatively and qualitatively limited. In addition, little research has been carried out regarding its impact on the development of transmedia skills and informal learning strategies outside the classroom. This article aims to expand the knowledge on teenagers’ motivations and their development of transmedia skills and informal learning strategies in relation to their use of WhatsApp. Specifically, a qualitative analysis of data gathered from workshops, interviews, and media diaries is applied as part of a case study methodology involving teenagers from 10 schools located in five different Spanish regions. The results reveal the new WhatsApp uses teenagers are applying in their daily lives as well as the skills and strategies they are developing through said uses in the context of interpersonal and group (WhatsApp groups) interactions: on one hand, production, social, content, and individual management skills, and on the other hand, learning by doing, teaching, and evaluating strategies.

Using ScratchJr to Foster Young Children’s Computational Thinking Competence: A Case Study in a Third-Grade Computer Class

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 570-595
Author(s):  
Pao-Nan Chou
Keyword(s):  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Third Graders ◽  
Educational Training ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Testing And Debugging ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
Study Methodology

This study investigated young children’s computational thinking (CT) development by integrating ScratchJr into a programming curriculum. Twelve third graders (six males and six females) voluntarily participated in an experiment-based computer class conducted at a public elementary school in Taiwan. This study adopted a case study methodology to investigate research questions in one specific case (8-week CT educational training). A one-group quasi-experimental pretest and posttest design with the support of qualitative observation was used to examine four research topics: CT competence progress, programming behaviors in a CT framework, factors influencing CT competence, and learning responses to CT training. The quantitative results indicated that students immersing in weekly programming projects significantly improved in terms of their CT competence, which was mostly retained 1 month after completion of the class. The programming behaviors indicated that students’ CT concepts (sequence, event, and parallelism) and practice (testing and debugging as well as reusing and remixing) significantly improved. Moreover, parents’ active involvement in take-home assignments influenced students’ long-term CT competence retention. The qualitative results indicated that students enjoyed using tablet computers to learn ScratchJr programming and demonstrated various leaning behaviors in a three-stage instructional design model.

scholarly journals PENETRASI KAPITALIS DAN RESISTENSI PETANI: KASUS SENGKETA AGRARIA DI TANAH LIDO KABUPATEN BOGOR, JAWA BARAT

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Septri Widiono
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Study Strategy ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

This research was aimed to study about an agrarian conflict at Lido land. In order to get the comprehensive its meaning the qualitative approach with the case study strategy were used. The conflict explained as the dialectical relation among peasants in the one hand and the agrotourism company in the other hand. The conflict taken place with the support of local government to the company while peasants made patronize relationship with the NGO. The dynamic of agrarian conflict has meaning of capitalist penetration and the peasant resistency.Key word: agrarian conflict, capitalist penetration, peasant resistency, Lido

From Seed to Song

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 314-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Hollingsworth ◽  
Avis Ridgway
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Music Education ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Audio Technology ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
Young Students ◽  
Affective Dimensions ◽  
Preschool Aged Children

Increasingly researchers are trying to show how new technologies can be used to provide opportunities for creative and more expansive music education for young children. Accepting that young children’s capacity for self expression is vastly underestimated, two young students and I set about musicking through an example of collaborative songwriting. Drawing on case study methodology using digital visual and audio technology, I offer the reader and listener an experience of the affective dimensions involved in composing music with two preschool-aged children. I challenge preconceived notions of music pedagogies for young children, and provoke implications for generating far greater vitality, self expression, and imagination in music education.

Pareto-principle application in non-IT supported CRM processes

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Elbeltagi ◽  
Thijs Kempen ◽  
Elaine Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Spare Parts ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pareto Principle ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Social Intercourse ◽  
Crm Processes

Purpose – This research covers a rather unexplored area of customer relationship management (CRM) by questioning the mechanism between on the one hand the Pareto-principle and on the other hand traditional non-IT supported operational CRM processes. Thus, the paper aims to explore whether a minority of processes and process-aspects deserves credit for achieving a majority of CRM goals. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative approach is the most appropriate due to the assumption that access to the reality of a situation is only possible through social construction. A qualitative approach seeks to answer questions posed by studying different social settings. As noted by Berg, qualitative techniques make it possible for researchers to participate in understanding and perceiving others, as well as permitting them to discover how people structure their daily lives to make them more meaningful. Findings – The questioned mechanism of on the one hand traditional non-IT supported operational CRM process-aspects and on the other hand the Pareto-principle is confirmed by the majority of interviewees who answered affirmatively to small things making big differences in customer contact. Research limitations/implications – Regarding the limitations of this study, the results are hard to generalise as the research context depends on a single case study. However, the high levels of detail that allows for greater insight into manufacturing SMEs in HGV-Trailer that want to adopt non-IT support operational CRM where there is lack of financial resources justify the choice of this case study. Practical implications – This study is important for management to focus and develop social on top of technical competencies. This was clear from the importance of social intercourse as the glue that links all the non-IT supported operational processes from break down to invoices. It helps in removing the uncertainty from the view point of customers and highlights the importance of the care that companies need to give to the human side of the process more than objectifying things. Moreover, the finding provides an important implication for practitioners involved spare-parts purchasing process and the warranty claiming process should continuously assess whether they operate in support of a breakdown or not and subsequently use this insight to prioritize their tasks. Originality/value – This research tried to answer how the Pareto-principle applies to traditional non-IT supported operational CRM process-aspects by concluding that the first social intercourse, as well as problem ownership, belongs – from a customers' viewpoint – to the “vital few” leading to “trivial many” results of rational and emotional nature. This is especially true in the breakdown process, and processes that operate in support of breakdowns.

scholarly journals Tinjauan Implementasi Fatwa DSN NO.25/DSN-MUI/III/2002 Pada Pelaksanaan Penjualan Barang Gadai Yang Tidak Ditebus Di Bank JATIM Syariah

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 418
Author(s):  
Khurin Fijria Nuzula ◽  
Irham Zaki
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Study Methodology

The purpose of this research is to assess the compliance of the selling procedures for unredeemed pawn goods (Marhun) in accordance to the National Sharia Council’s Fatwa No:25/DSN-MUI/III/2002 in Bank Jatim Syariah. The selling of unredeemed pawn goods (marhun) is analyzed from 4 aspects : (1) Maturity, (2) the execution of sale, (3) the result of the sale and (4) the excess or deficit from the result of the sale. This research adopts a qualitative approach with a case study methodology. The result of this research suggests that there is incompliance to the National Sharia Council’s Fatwa No:25/DSN-MUI/III/2002 in the act of selling unredeemed pawn goods (marhun) by Bank Jatim Syariah, however this incompliance does not indicate any breach to the sharia rulings on sales and purchase.

scholarly journals Proses Kegiatan Penghimpunan Dan Distribusi Wakaf Tunai Di Baitul Maal Hidayatullah Surabaya

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 490
Author(s):  
Muhammad Afdhal ◽  
Siti Inayatul Faizah
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Pattern Matching ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Matching Technique ◽  
Study Methodology

This research adopts a qualitative approach with case study methodology. Data collection is done through carrying out interview with informants such as branch manager, financial manager, marketing staffs and several donators of Baitul Maal Hidayatullah. Secondary data comes under the form of documents pertaining to the practice performed by Baitul Maal Hidayatullah. The pattern matching technique is then used to compare patterns based on empirics with the predicted patterns. Cash waqf funds are collected through direct and indirect means. The collection of cash waqf funds by Baitul Maal Hidayatullah are in accordance with the procedures set out by Badan Wakaf Indonesia which are, analysis of needs, waqif profile identification, the product of waqf, and the transactional cost. The distribution of cash waqf funds by Baitul Maal Hidayatullah are in accordance with what has been ordained by the Direktorat Pemberdayaan Wakaf, which includes, waqf distribution for education and social services.

scholarly journals Violence, Terrorism, and Identity Politics in Afghanistan: The Securitisation of Higher Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 150
Author(s):  
Christian Kaunert ◽  
Arif Sahar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
Study Methodology

This article investigates the securitisation of the higher education sector in Afghanistan by examining ‘hidden’ non-discursive practices as opposed to overt discursive threat construction. Non-discursive practices are framed by the habitus inherited from different social fields, whereas in Afghanistan, securitising actors converge from different habitus (e.g., institutions, professions, backgrounds) to bar the ‘other’ ethnic or social groups from resources and spaces which could empower these groups to become a pertinent threat, a fear, and a danger to the monopoly of the state elites over the state power and resources. The most prominent securitisation practices emerging from the data include mainly (1) the obstruction of the formation of critical ideas and politics; (2) the obstruction of economic opportunities; and (3) the obstruction of social justice. This article deploys a case study methodology and uses the Kabul University as its subject of investigation.

scholarly journals Swear words among young learners: A case study of the elementary students

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-132
Author(s):  
Maria Fe Suganob-Nicolau
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Students ◽  
Qualitative Interview ◽  
Likert Scale ◽  
The Other ◽  
Primary Reason ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Interview Studies

This case study examines the usage of swear words among young learners. It aims to find out the most frequently used swear words, the intense emotions that triggered the participants to swear, the strategies used to tone down the swear words, and the contributors to learning how to swear. A combination of quantitative (Likert scale survey, open-ended survey, and data elicitation from drawings,) and qualitative (interview) studies was conducted among the 109 elementary students from school A. The findings revealed that the most frequently used swear words were related to intellectual based terms and religion; anger was the primary reason for the young learners to swear to someone; the use of acronyms was commonly explored to tone down the offensiveness of the swear words, and moms were the highest contributors for the young learners to learn how to swear. Despite the limitations of the data elicitation, the instrument offered a richer data in comparison with the two other quantitative instruments (Likert scale survey and open-ended survey). It did not only present the emotions, toning down strategies, contributors, categories and variations but it also revealed the locations and situational instances where the swear words were used. Interview, on the other hand, was valuable to support the qualitative findings related to emotions and reasons for toning down strategies whereas other findings can be quantified using the frequencies presented in the quantitative instruments. Moreover, the findings also discovered that some swear words under study such as OMG, Oh my God, or gosh were not considered as swear words since they were mainstream words in this particular study.

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