For Children in and out of Class During a Pandemic

2022 ◽  
pp. 110-154
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Learning Resources ◽  
Open Learning ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Shared Learning ◽  
Online Teachers ◽  
Environmental Scan ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
The Social

In a pandemic, when schools have either closed, gone “blended” or “hybrid” (part-in-person and part-online), or gone fully online, teachers have to master online teaching quickly. At these moments, various online and published resources are referred to and used as guides. Some are willing to offer open-shared learning resources on the Social Web. This work involves an environmental scan of open-shared learning resources for pre-K12 and K12 on (1) an online teaching repository/referatory, (2) slideshow-sharing site, and (3) a social video sharing site. This includes bottom-up thematic coding of the journalistic literature (of COVID-19 and children), a review of the available recent open learning resources, and analytical observations about how to improve the available contents.

Reflecting on Self-Reflection

2021 ◽  
pp. 316-342
Author(s):  
Andreea Roxana Bell ◽  
Diana Elena Banu ◽  
Constanța Bordea ◽  
Elena Corina Bularca ◽  
Elena Diana Lazăr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
State School ◽  
Online Teachers ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Reflection In Action ◽  
First Time

This chapter discusses the challenges of online teaching faced by six English teachers in a state school in Romania in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. As first-time action researchers, these teachers self-reflected on their challenges to make sense of their experiences as they transitioned from face-to-face to online teaching in a collaborative research self-study. Reflective practice is the conceptual framework within which the complexities and tensions of online teaching will be explored, as well as the process by which the authors have responded to the social and technological changes caused by the pandemic. Excerpts from the authors' voices highlight their personal views and experiences as online teachers. It is hoped that not only will this self-study reflection-in-action research provide some useful lessons regarding online teaching, but it will also showcase the benefits of collaboration and reflective practice and the action it led to.

scholarly journals The City of Digital Social Innovators

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Chiara Certomà ◽  
Mark Dyer ◽  
Antonella Passani
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Fast Growing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
The City

The concept of digital social innovation (DSI) refers to a fast-growing set of initiatives aimed at providing innovative solutions to social problems and needs by deploying the potential of the social web and digital media. Despite having been often interpreted as synonymous with digitally enhanced social innovation, we explain here why, in consideration of its epistemological and socio-political potentialities, we understand it as an interdisciplinary set of practices able to interpret and support the changes of a society that is more and more intrinsically virtual and physical at the same time. Notably, we briefly discuss how DSI processes can be functionally mobilized in support of different socio-political projects, ranging from the mainstream neoliberal to the revolutionary ones. Eventually, we provide a synopsis of the articles included in this thematic issue, by aggregating them accordingly to the main stakeholders promoting the DSI projects, being more bottom-up oriented or more institutional-based.

Performative Eating as Edutainment on YouTube

2022 ◽  
pp. 266-297
Keyword(s):  
Small Groups ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Food And Drink

On the Social Web, on the leading social video sharing site YouTube, some of the most popular videos (with millions of views each) show “performative eating,” described here as “consuming food as a form of entertainment.” The performances occur in various locales and in various ways: Mukbang eating shows and their derivatives show individuals, pairs, groups, and families in feats of food and drink consumption. ASMR (autonomous [auto] sensory meridian response) eating videos show individuals and small groups eating copious amounts of food with an emphasis on listening pleasures. In restaurants, individuals and small groups take on (un)timed eating challenges. Outdoors, persons harvest food and prepare it, or they hunt wildlife and butcher the kill and prepare the animal proteins. Travel eating occurs in various locations around the world, with a focus on local specialties. The common denominator in these are spectacle. Viewed another way, performative eating videos are a form of edutainment, with positive and negative lessons.

SWQL: A new domain-specific language for mining the social Web

2021 ◽  
pp. 102642
Author(s):  
Xiomarah Guzmán-Guzmán ◽  
Edward Rolando Núñez-Valdez ◽  
Raysa Vásquez-Reynoso ◽  
Angel Asencio ◽  
Vicente García-Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Domain Specific Language ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
The Social

Open iTunesU. A new service to manage open learning resources

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Pesquera ◽  
Esther Reula ◽  
Elio Sancristobal ◽  
Manuel Castro ◽  
Timothy Read ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Resources ◽  
Open Learning

On the Notion of Collective Intelligence

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Epaminondas Kapetanios
Keyword(s):  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Synergistic Interactions ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Computing Paradigm ◽  
The Social ◽  
Challenging Research ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Set Up

In this article, the author explores the notion of Collective Intelligence (CI) as an emerging computing paradigm. The article is meant to provide a historical and contextual view of CI through the lenses of as many related disciplines as possible (biology, sociology, natural and environmental sciences, physics) in conjunction with the computer science point of view. During this explorative journey, the article also aims at pinpointing the current strengths and weaknesses of CI-related computational and system engineering design and implementation methodologies of CI-based systems. A non-exhaustive list of case studies set up the stage for CI applications as well as challenging research questions. These can be particularly directed towards the Social Web, as a very prominent example of synergistic interactions of a group of people with diverse cultural and professional backgrounds and its potential to become a platform for the emergence of truly CI-based systems.

scholarly journals Modelos híbridos de indexação social: análise do repositório de fanfictions Archive of Our Own (AO3)

2021 ◽  
pp. 30-51
Author(s):  
Bruna Daniele de Oliveira Silva ◽  
Deise Maria Antonio Sabbag
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid System ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Natural Languages ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semantic Dimension ◽  
Participatory Model

The digital environment has enabled new forms of production, consumption and organization of digital content, such as social indexing. This indexing consists onthe attribution of free tags by users or communities. Fanfictions are fictional stories created by fans, they are deposited in repositories and their indexing is performed by the authors themselves, using a hybrid system of controlled and natural languages. The research aimed to describe qualitatively the social indexing implemented in the fanfictions repositor,Archive of Our Own, in order to make some reflections about the new modes of production and user participation in the representation of content onthe social web. It is concluded that the indexing performed in the analyzed repository adds a curated folkonomy through a team of volunteers trained to follow specific norms. The repository establishes a hybrid and participatory model for indexing itscontent, adding a semantic dimension while ensuring the recovery.

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