Developing quantitative literacy skills in history and the social sciences: a Web-based common core standards approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (07) ◽  
pp. 52-3780-52-3780
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Common Core ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Common Core Standards ◽  
Quantitative Literacy ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Social

A European Computer Driving Licence: integrating computer literacy in the new Social Work degree

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Gregor
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Computer Literacy ◽  
Social Work Students ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Driving Licence ◽  
The Social ◽  
E Learning ◽  
College Now

'Informacy', the learning of information technology skills, is now a key element of all Social Work curricula in the U.K. following the General Social Care Council's accreditation requirements. These stipulate that all undergraduates acquire computer literacy skills to the level of the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) or its equivalence and require that all accredited Social Work courses assess students to ensure that this is achieved. However, many universities do not have the support of information technology departments in order to ensure that their students are taught how to use a computer. Nor do they have access to interactive web-based packages that assist the students in teaching themselves IT skills to the high levels required by the European Computer Driving Licence. The research suggests that an integrated e-learning teaching and assessment strategy can help to promote computer literacy among Social Work students. This paper explores some of the challenges that arise from integrating e-learning into the teaching and assessment of a Social Work degree, based on the experience of the Social Work Department at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College (now Bucks New University).

scholarly journals Web-Based Reference Resources for the Social Sciences

2005 ◽  
Vol 44 (91-92) ◽  
pp. 211-234
Author(s):  
Brian Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Book Review: 36 Workshops to Get Kids Writing: From Aliens to Zebras

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Sharon Verbeten
Keyword(s):  
Common Core ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Common Core Standards ◽  
Youth Services ◽  
Grade Levels ◽  
Children's Librarians ◽  
Structured Writing ◽  
Five Practices

Many children’s librarians know that the five practices of Every Child Ready to Read, one of which is writing, help foster reading and improve literacy skills. The practice of writing also aligns with Common Core Standards at most grade levels. But often, libraries don’t include writing—or at least structured writing—in their program offerings. The author of this book, a youth services librarian, introduces compelling ideas and research evidence for why writing is so important. This introduction leads into the “hows” of presenting writing to children at the library.

Celebrations: Religious Events beyond the Dichotomy of Individualization and Communitization

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-121
Author(s):  
Meike Haken
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Popular Religion ◽  
Video Data ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Theory Of Religion ◽  
The Social

Abstract This contribution contrasts the dichotomization of individualization and communitization of religion, which is still prominent in the social sciences, with a religious phenomenon that shows that religion must be understood beyond the opposition of these spheres. Against the background of a corresponding concept of religion, the popular religion (Knoblauch 2009), which continues Thomas Luckmann’s theory of religion (1967), the concept of Celebrations will be presented. This empirically generated concept relies on self-recorded video data of Christian events in Europe. Celebrations are to be understood as religious events that are based on a specific affective order, which is able to merge the most diverse cultural communicative forms on the level of individual religiosity and community (cf. Haken 2020a, 2020b). Referring to web-based data on the Hindu Kumbh Mela in India, the transferability of the concept of Celebrations is exploratively applied to another religious event.

Coda

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Roach
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms

This coda looks to the future of the interview. With the advent of so-called Web 2.0 the threshold of public and private is radically shifting. For the interview, historically positioned on this boundary, the possibilities are manifold, if not yet certain. Methodologically, the long-standing dominance of interviewing within the social sciences is being called into question as web-based and social media platforms generate big data pools. The chapter discusses the import of chatbots and formats such as Reddit’s AMA for the interview’s future. It speculates that as the interview method becomes less tethered to data collection, within the literary field it may well become more overtly associated with the life writing tradition, recognized for its aesthetic features and creative possibilities.

Issues and Trends in Brazilian Studies in South Korea: Social Sciences and Humanities

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-305
Author(s):  
Hoyoon Jung
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
South Korea ◽  
The United States ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Current State ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Global Arena ◽  
Brazilian Studies

As Brazil emerges as a significant and influential country in the global arena, studies related to Brazil have drawn keen scholarly interests from a number of fields of study. In this regard, “Brazilian Studies” has grown considerably in the last several decades and has solid representation in most disciplines, particularly in the social sciences and humanities. In South Korea, Brazilian Studies has also become a competitive and promising discipline through the effort of pioneer Korean brazilianists, yet less lively compared to Brazilian Studies in the United States and other European countries that have guided this field. Employing web-based methods, including online-based searching, and bibliographical analysis based on the data collected by DBpia, this study aims to introduce and examine the issues, trends and current state of Brazilian Studies education and research in South Korea, particularly focusing on the social sciences and humanities.

scholarly journals Putting Space Syntax to the Test

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-224
Author(s):  
David Fredrick ◽  
Rhodora G Vennarucci
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Predictive Models ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Syntax Analysis ◽  
Visibility Graphs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Subject Pool

While space syntax analysis has been widely applied to archaeological sites (including Pompeii), it is fundamentally limited by its isolation within the social sciences and its omission of decoration from the analysis of human cognition and movement within structures. At the same time, phenomenology in archaeology has typically arisen from the physical experiences of a limited number of professional archaeologists in a landscape, with little interest in digital embodiment in virtual spaces. The Virtual Pompeii Project has produced an updated version of space syntax which combines network measures common in the social sciences with visibility graphs to produce predictive models of movement within a set of three ancient Roman houses in Pompeii. These predictive models are tested through the navigation of virtual models of the houses by human subjects, demonstrating the significance of decoration in shaping movement, and, through quantitative and qualitative data, the value of digitally embodied phenomenology. This points ahead to the use of crowd-sourced, web-based global testing, diversifying the subject pool far beyond the narrow bounds of professional classicists or archaeologists.

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