#TextMeetsTech

2020 ◽  
pp. 233-251
Author(s):  
Katie Schrodt ◽  
Erin R. FitzPatrick ◽  
Kim Reddig ◽  
Emily Paine Smith ◽  
Jennifer Grow
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
High School ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Middle School Teachers ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Young Adult Novel ◽  
University Course ◽  
The University ◽  
User Friendly

This chapter addresses the need to make time and space for transliteracy practices in the classroom. University pre-service teachers are used as the primary example as the chapter documents how these students made meaning across a range of platforms, while reading the acclaimed young adult novel The Hate U Give. The university course, titled Language and Literacy, focuses on methods of literacy instruction in the classroom. A lesson plan framework is included in the chapter that is especially user friendly for educator preparation classrooms as well as high school and middle school teachers. The chapter explores the experiences of the college students while reading The Hate U Give, while detailing how the students created meaning through a variety of traditional and modern teaching practices.

Chicana Teens, Zines, and Poetry Scenes: Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Amanda Ellis
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Political Art ◽  
Senior Year ◽  
Young Adult Novel ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Fitting In

This chapter reads closely Isabel Quintero’s 2014 young adult novel Gabi, A Girl in Pieces. Quintero’s novel, which takes the form of a year’s worth of diary entries, and includes an illustrated copy of the titular character’s zine on female body diversity, narrates the story of a young Chicana outsider’s senior year of high school. In lieu of “fitting in” Gabi the teenage poet pens her way out of loss, homophobia, lurking sexual violence, grief, and depression. Gabi, A Girl in Pieces reveals that the creation of political art, the practice of writing, and the role of Chicana poetics can serve as vital creative outlets for Chicana outsiders, be they nerds, goths, geeks, or freaks.

Nontraditional and Traditional Student Persisters and Nonpersisters in the Community and Technical College

1984 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALAN D. SMITH ◽  
MICHAEL N. SUGARMAN
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
High School ◽  
Nontraditional Students ◽  
Grade Point Average ◽  
Technical College ◽  
School Grade ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Community And Technical College ◽  
High School Grade ◽  
The University

A study was conducted with Community and Technical College students enrolled at the University of Akron, a major urban university, during the 1978–1979 academic year. Students were divided into traditional and nontraditional persisters and nonpersisters, and if they were placed on academic probation, they were removed from the study. These students were given modified National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) questionnaires for program completers and noncompleters. The questions tested for varying degrees of satisfaction with the University and reasons for withdrawal concerning various academic, socioeconomic, and environmental press variables. In addition, selected demographic variables from the student masterfile were tested, along with the questionnaire responses in 99 research hypotheses using multiple linear regression and corrected for multiple comparisons. Results indicate that 13 hypotheses were found to significantly discriminate between traditional and nontraditional community college students. The persisting nontraditional students appeared to be more satisfied with the University concerning a few variables, greater proportion attended part-time, during the day, enrolled for less hours, and had a greater high school grade point average than their traditional counterparts. The nonpersisting, nontraditional students were similar to their persisting counterparts, except that traditional nonpersisting students had a higher high school grade point average, lived at greater distances from the school, and attended day time classes as compared to nontraditional students.

scholarly journals Unspeakable by C. Pignat

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Kung
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Quebec City ◽  
Young Adult Novel ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Pignat, Caroline. Unspeakable. Toronto: Razorbill, 2014. Print. Ellie Ryan is an eighteen-year-old girl who has suffered an insurmountable number of personal tragedies that have taught her the importance of perseverance. After her mother’s death, she finds herself unwanted by her father and is forced to move in with her aunt Geraldine. Due to Ellie’s inability to cope with her circumstances, her aunt sends her aboard the Empress of Ireland where she learns to embrace her new position as a stewardess with the help of her most trusted friend, Meg.On the second crossing of the Empress, Ellie meets Jim, a lonely fire stoker who has experienced his share of grief and tragedy, something Ellie is all too familiar with. After many chance encounters late at night along the ship's rail, she finds Jim writing in a journal. He is a quiet and secretive young man who doesn’t share much of his life, which intrigues and compels her to discover more about him. When the ship docks at Quebec City, they explore the city together, a memorable experience for her. However, tragedy strikes on their next voyage when the ship collides into another ship. Ellie appears to be the one of the few remaining crew members to survive the disaster and has no word of Jim’s whereabouts; it seems unlikely that Jim would have survived the frigid ocean. Wyatt Steele, a journalist with The New York Times, later asks Ellie for her story. She refuses at first, but unwittingly gives into him when he appears one day with Jim’s journal. Wyatt represents the last remaining hope she has to learn more about the man she had fallen in love with and to possibly discover what happened to him. In exchange for her story, he agrees to provide Jim’s journal as payment, one page at a time.               This young adult novel follows Ellie’s journey aboard the Empress of Ireland in 1914 and offers a realistic context for Canada’s worst maritime disaster. It explores themes of depression from the loss of family and friends, survivor’s guilt, and redemption. The story weaves an intricate plot that alternates the timeline before and after the ship’s sinking, in order for the reader to actively live through Ellie’s recollections in the present. Overall, the author intricately writes a romantic story in the backdrop of a historical Canadian event that is well suited to young adult audiences.Recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Janice KungJanice Kung is an Academic Library Intern at the University of Alberta’s John W. Scott Health Sciences Library. She obtained her undergraduate degree in commerce and completed her MLIS in 2013. She believes that the best thing to beat the winter blues is to cuddle up on a couch and lose oneself in a good book.

scholarly journals Apparition by G. Gallant

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Colette Leung
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Humanities Computing ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Canadian Youth ◽  
Young Adult Novel ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Gallant, Gail. Apparition. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2013. Print.This Young Adult mystery-ghost story tells the story of seventeen year-old clairvoyant, Amelia MacKenzie. Amelia has seen ghosts since she was a little girl, and after her mother passed away from cancer, Amelia saw her mother’s ghost too. Until recently, Amelia thought she was imagining these visions, but that all changes when her best friend and crush Matthew dies.Amelia lives near the small city of Owen Sound, Ontario, with her grandmother Joyce, and her two brothers Ethan and Jack. Amelia struggled with depression after her mother’s death, but her friendship with Matthew helped her through the hardest time of her life, and leads to burgeoning romantic feelings. After Amelia gathers the strength to express her feelings to him, Matthew is flustered. The next time she meets him, however, Matthew is acting strangely, and while giving Amelia a ride home, begins to talk about a mysterious girl. Amelia finds out the next day that Matthew apparently killed himself in a nearby barn. Although devastated, Amelia feels something is off about Matthew’s death.At Matthew’s funeral, Amelia meets a local journalist named Morris Dyson. Morris investigates paranormal occurrences, as he believes ghosts travel along specific geographic routes, and sometimes become stuck or cause trouble. Morris also believes Amelia can see ghosts, just like he knew her mother could. Morris suspects Matthew’s death is linked to similar deaths that happened in the same barn - all young men who committed suicide after heart-break surrounding a mysterious woman named Dot. Morris theorizes a ghost is in the barn and causing all these problems.With the help of Morris’ handsome and charming son, Kip, Amelia and Morris begin to unravel the mystery of the barn, the ghosts who still haunt it (including Matthew), and the impact for those who come into contact with the barn. At the same time, Amelia learns to come to terms with her gift, her grief, and to explore her own identity.Gail Gallant conveys the stark beauty of the Canadian landscape throughout her novel, and captures the unique and realistic culture of small town Ontario. The setting will strike home with many Canadian youth. Even with its supernatural elements, Gallant’s characters are interesting and realistic, especially for a young adult novel. Amelia makes a notable heroine not because of her clairvoyance, but from how she learns to understand her own feelings as an ordinary teenager. Amelia cares deeply for her brothers, and her stern, no-nonsense grandmother, but can at times find them aggravating. She also navigates realistic issues, such as family, friendship, and integrity in relationships. Gallant presents these themes with sophistication and empathy.Apparition tackles mature issues including depression, grief, death, romance, the afterlife, and murder. Young readers may find some content scary, although the novel is more suspenseful than frightening. The book stands complete on its own, but has a sequel, Absolution.Recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Colette LeungColette Leung is a graduate student at the University of Alberta, working in the fields of Library and Information science and Humanities Computing who loves reading, cats, and tea. Her research interests focus around how digital tools can be used to explore fields such as literature, language, and history in new and innovative ways.

Nanook: He Is Coming: A dystopian young adult novel from Brazil1

Book 2 0 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliane Aparecida Galvão Ribeiro Ferreira ◽  
Guilherme Magri da Rocha
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Reception Theory ◽  
The Novel ◽  
School Students ◽  
Young Adult Novel ◽  
Dialogical Relationship ◽  
Brazilian Students

This article discusses Nanook: ele está chegando (‘Nanook: He Is Coming’) (2016), written by Brazilian author Gustavo Bernardo, a Brazilian dystopian apocalyptic young adult (YA) novel influenced by an Inuit legend that mixes science with mysticism and human subjectivity. In this book, 15-year-old Bernardo emerges as a harbinger of events that will occur in the narrative, when he affirms that ‘Nanook is coming’. From that point onwards, climatic and supernatural events happen, which affect the whole world, with consequences for Ouro Preto, the former capital of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, where the story takes place. These consequences include snowfalls, increasingly intense cold and the disappearance of some animals. Nanook: He Is Coming was selected by the Brazilian National Textbook Program (PNLD – Programa Nacional do Livro Didático) for high school students. This programme is designed to evaluate didactic, pedagogical and literary works and make them available for free to Brazilian students what are studying at public schools. This article concludes with an analysis of the text, using critical tools, which include Reception Theory to examine the communicability of the novel with its implicit reader, the dialogical relationship with that reader and the novel’s language, stylistic characteristics, the constitution of its narrative operators and its ideological discourse.

scholarly journals From Students' Questions of Safety Education in a Chemistry Laboratory

2021 ◽  
pp. 14-15
Author(s):  
Takashiro Akitsu
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
High School ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Metal Powder ◽  
Fire Safety ◽  
Chemistry Laboratory ◽  
Safety Education ◽  
The University ◽  
Fire Extinguishers

Chemists operate fairly scary chemicals with their bare hands, but drug injuries and addiction is very rare. This is because we are familiar with what is dangerous and what is not dangerous, and for that reason, the experimental curriculum is designed with the idea of gaining sufficient experience of failure in the undergraduate years in the chemistry classroom of the university. From the experience of safety education in the author's laboratory, this article will describe some points that are easy to overlook (metal powder), fire extinguishers, and the opinions are divided (cyanide). Beside general viewpoints of chemical aspects fire safety and chemistry experiments similar to that I have written for high-school and college students and teachers, this Editorial focused on “Question” that my (under) graduate students have practically.

13 Reasons Why the Rape Myth Survives

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delphine Letort
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Rape Myth ◽  
Young Adult Novel ◽  
Gender And Power

The controversies triggered by the Netflix adaptation of Jay Asher’s young adult novel Thirteen Reasons Why (2007) have focused on suicide and downplayed discussions of rape as a central plot device. Making use of stereotypical characters (such as the cheerleader and the jock) and archetypal setting (including the high school), 13 Reasons Why delves into the reassuring world of the suburban town; it deals ambiguously with the entwined notions of gender and power encapsulated in the teenpic genre. A detailed analysis of the series indeed reveals that its causative narrative reinforces the rape myth by putting the blame on girls for events that happen to them. In this article I explore the tensions of a TV series that endorses the rape myth through the entertaining frame of the teenpic.

scholarly journals PENELUSURAN MINAT BAKAT UNTUK SISWA SMA SK DI JAKARTA BARAT

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiky Dwi Hapsari Saraswati ◽  
Jessica Chandhika ◽  
Daniel Lie
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Intelligence Test ◽  
Transitional Period ◽  
School Students ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Service Activity ◽  
University Course ◽  
The University

Adolescence is a transitional period from the development of children to adults. At this stage of development, selecting a university course is a difficult task for students because they are still unsure about their own identity. Many of them still like to try out and follow what their friends do. The choice of university course is very important because it determines the continuity of the students’ studies in the university. Currently, SK High School does not have a psychologist in helping the students to understand their own aptitude and interest. Hence, a community service activity based on aptitude and interest test was carried out and conducted by a group of lecturers from Faculty of Psychology Universitas Tarumanagara (who are also psychologists). This aptitude and interest test was attended by 20 high school students of class XII and they completed five tests (Culture Fair Intelligence Test; Tes Administrasi, Keuangan, dan Dagang; Rothwell Miller Interest Blank; Pemeriksaan Teknik Pasti; Tes House Tree Person) to measure three aspects (intelligence, aptitude, and interest). Results were shown in the report format, consisting of description of the three aspects; a summary of students’ strengths, weaknesses, and suggestions for improvements; and recommendation university course. This report can be used by students, parents, and the school as a reference to assist students in selecting the most appropriate university courseABSTRAK:Masa remaja merupakan masa peralihan dari tahap perkembangan anak-anak menjadi dewasa. Di tahap perkembangan ini, pemilihan jurusan menjadi hal yang sulit bagi para siswa karena mereka masih belum memiliki ketetapan mengenai jati diri mereka sendiri. Banyak di antara mereka yang masih suka coba-coba dan ikut-ikutan teman. Pemilihan jurusan di perguruan tinggi sendiri merupakan hal yang sangat penting karena akan menentukan kelangsungan studi para siswa di perguruan tinggi. Sekarang ini Sekolah Menengah Atas (SMA) SK tidak memiliki psikolog yang dapat membantu para siswa untuk memberikan gambaran mengenai minat-bakat mereka. Oleh karena itu, kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat berbasis penelusuran bakat-minat dilaksanakan dan dilakukan oleh dosen Fakultas Psikologi Universitas Tarumanagara yang juga berprofesi sebagai psikolog. Tes bakat dan minat diikuti oleh 20 siswa SMA kelas XII dan mereka menyelesaikan lima tes (Culture Fair Intelligence Test; Tes Administrasi, Keuangan, dan Dagang; Rothwell Miller Interest Blank; Pemeriksaan Teknik Pasti; serta Tes House Tree Person) untuk mengukur tiga aspek yaitu inteligensi, minat dan bakat. Hasil ditunjukkan dalam bentuk laporan yang terdiri dari gambaran pada ketiga aspek tersebut; ringkasan singkat mengenai kekuatan, kelemahan, dan saran peningkatan untuk mahasiswa tersebut; dan rekomendasi jurusan di perguruan tinggi. Laporan dapat digunakan oleh siswa, orang tua, dan pihak sekolah sebagai referensi untuk membantu para mahasiswa dalam memilih jurusan di penguruan tinggi.

Validation of Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire (B-YAACQ): Portuguese Version

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joaquim A. Ferreira ◽  
Jorge S. Martins ◽  
Mariana S. Coelho ◽  
Christopher W. Kahler
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Drinking Alcohol ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Portuguese Version ◽  
R And D ◽  
Sum Score ◽  
The University

AbstractExtant literature suggests that Portuguese college students frequently drinking alcohol and experience a variety of alcohol-related negative consequences. However, to our knowledge, there is no validated measure to assess negative consequences of drinking alcohol for college students in Portugal. This article describes a validation of the Portuguese version of the Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire. Originally developed by Kahler, Strong, and Read (2005), this 24-item questionnaire is a widely used self-report measure with strong psychometric properties and validity for the evaluation of the negative consequences of drinking in college students. We collected data from 620 students at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). Participants completed (a) a background questionnaire, (b) the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT), (c) the Daily Drinking Questionnaire - Revised (DDQ-R), and (d) the Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire (B-YAACQ) translated into Portuguese as part of this study. Analyses showed that items fit a unidimensional Rasch model well with items infit statistics raging from .82 to 1.27, supporting using all items to create a total sum score of the Portuguese version of the B-YAACQ. The Portuguese version of the B-YAACQ showed adequate internal reliability (α = .87) and concurrent validity. Results support its use and integration in research on interventions targeted to reduce adverse effects associated with excessive drinking among Portuguese college students.

This Pin I Wear: Telling the Story of the Human Factors/Ergonomics Profession

1998 ◽  
Vol 42 (7) ◽  
pp. 616-618
Author(s):  
Paula Sind-Prunier
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
High School ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Undergraduate College Students

Professional outreach is an important responsibility of every member of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society (HFES). By communicating information about our profession to outsiders, we increase visibility of the field, foster better understanding and hence increased cooperation from allied disciplines, promote sensitivity to user concerns, educate users to demand effectively designed products and services, and also, provide for continued recruitment of new generations into this discipline. This presentation focuses on the latter purpose, presentations intended to increase awareness of our profession among middle-, high school, and undergraduate college students. It uses a simple three-point framework to guide human factors professionals in preparing a clear, dynamic, relevant, and convincing presentation that can be delivered extemporaneously. The template is customized by the presenter who integrates his/her own experiences, and tailors it to the age group of the audience. This approach capitalizes upon the presenter's experience-based credibility and familiarity with personal examples, to ensure a presentation that is well received by young adult audiences.

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