scholarly journals Introducing Maker-Inspired Technology in the Finnish Craft Subject – A Case Study from One School

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-321
Author(s):  
Rasmus Borg ◽  
Mia Porko-Hudd ◽  
Juha Hartvik
Keyword(s):  
Basic Education ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
3D Modelling ◽  
Maker Movement ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Research Cycle ◽  
Education School ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Digital Equipment

In the last two decades, the use of technology in Finnish basic education has developed rapidly. The combination of digital and analogue resources is emphasized especially in the maker movement to reduce abstraction in digital equipment. Craft as a learning subject has substantive conditions for offering pupils instruction in both traditional analogue and current digital working methods within the subject area. The purpose of this study was to examine what kind of knowledge and skill development are expressed when three types of maker-inspired technologies consisting of 3D modelling, 3D printing and e-textiles, are integrated into a lesson sequence in craft in Grade 7 in a Finnish basic education school. The study was conducted as an action research cycle consisting of seven lessons within a craft sequence. The data collection method was a questionnaire. The study shows the development of pupils' self-reported knowledge and skills as well as their attitudes towards the technological contents of the lesson sequence. Keywords: craft, sloyd, maker movement, basic education

scholarly journals Which Technologies Do Pre-Service Teachers Prefer to Use While Presenting Their Teaching Skills and for What Purposes Do They Use These Technologies?

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Fatma Sasmaz Oren
Keyword(s):  
Science Teachers ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Service Science ◽  
Teaching Skills ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Science Courses ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Subject

This research aims to determine the technologies that pre-service science teachers prefer to use in micro teaching presentations performed for improving their teaching skills and to determine the purposes of using these technologies. For this purpose, the case study model was used in the research. The research was made with some 48 pre-service science teachers. In the research, data was collected from the presentation files the pre-service science teachers had prepared with respect to the microteaching applications, from the instructor’s observation notes on their presentations, from the view form and from the semi-structured interviews. According to the findings obtained from the research, the pre-service science teachers used computers, projection apparatuses, overhead projectors, videos, animations, simulations and microscopes the most in the microteaching applications. The pre-service science teacher’s expressed that they used technology primarily for reasons such as enhancing the comprehensibility of the subject, concretizing abstract subjects, ensuring visuality and saving time. Considering these results, some recommendations were made regarding the use of technology in science courses.

Case Study of Game-Based Learning in a Citizenship Education K-12 Classroom

2013 ◽  
pp. 881-891
Author(s):  
Venus Olla
Keyword(s):  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Classroom Teacher ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Gaming Technology ◽  
The Subject ◽  
K 12

This chapter focuses on a case study that involves the incorporation of ICT in particular gaming technology into the subject area of Citizenship Education (CE), a non-traditional ICT focused subject. The case study is within the context of a K-12 classroom and it explores the processes in which a classroom teacher may have to navigate to be able to use innovative ICT within their classroom. The case highlights the main issues as relating to pedagogical and institutional considerations.

Naini Papers: capacity dilemma

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Kunal K. Ganguly ◽  
Siddharth Rai
Keyword(s):  
Operations Management ◽  
Capacity Planning ◽  
Capacity Utilization ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Subject ◽  
A Company ◽  
Alternative Operations ◽  
Idle Capacity

Subject area The subject area of the case is operations management and capacity planning. The case adopts different operation strategies to use the idle capacity. Study level/applicability The case study is suitable for discussion in masters level classes. The case explains the situation of a company which is fighting for its survival. The case reveals the alternative operations strategies it applies to maximize its capacity utilization and reduce its costs. Case overview The case describes a paper producing company which is earning low margins. The company’s capacity remains unused during the off-seasons. The company then plans to share its capacity with another dying industry. Both the companies plan to cooperate and share resources. However, there are other attractive alternatives too and the dilemma situations leave the gap for continuous discussions. Expected learning outcomes The case aims at providing potential alternatives to the students and initiating healthy discussions. The students will be able to understand the capacity utilization dilemmas and applicability of the operations strategy concept in practice. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email [email protected] to request teaching notes. Subject code CSS 9: Operations and Logistics.

scholarly journals Don’t write, just mark: the validity of assessing student ability via their computerized peer-marking of an essay rather than their creation of an essay

2004 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil Davies
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Choice ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Student Ability ◽  
Method Of Assessment ◽  
The Impact

This paper reports on a case study that evaluates the validity of assessing students via a computerized peer-marking process, rather than on their production of an essay in a particular subject area. The study assesses the higher-order skills shown by a student in marking and providing consistent feedback on an essay. In order to evaluate the suitability of this method of assessment in judging a student’s ability, their results in performing this peer-marking process are correlated against their results in a number of computerized multiple-choice exercises and also the production of an essay in a cognate area of the subject being undertaken. The results overall show a correlation of the expected results in all three areas of assessment being undertaken, rated by the final grades of the students undertaking the assessment. The results produced by quantifying the quality of the marking and commenting of the students is found to map well to the overall expectations of the results produced for the cohort of students. It is also shown that the higher performing students achieve a greater improvement in their overall marks by performing the marking process than those students of a lower quality. This appears to support previous claims that awarding a ‘mark for marking’ rewards the demonstration of higher order skills of assessment. Finally, note is made of the impact that such an assessment method can have upon eradicating the possibility of plagiarism.DOI: 10.1080/0968776042000259573

scholarly journals Encouraging enough? A Case Study on Parental Feedback on New Assessment in Finnish Basic Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Jyrki Loima
Keyword(s):  
Basic Education ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
First Year ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Education School ◽  
Parent Assessment ◽  
Participatory Assessment ◽  
First Time

This is a qualitative case study of the parental feedback about participatory assessment done during the first year (2016) of the implementation of the reformed Finnish basic education curriculum. It covered grades 1-6 and was a first time to have a broader, tri-angulated teacher-student-parent assessment on learning and schooling. Consequently, parents were selected from those grades, being of various ethnic backgrounds. This case study was conducted in a Southern Finland basic education school. Resulting trends were obvious: parents regarded this kind of participatory assessment meaningful. Second, the newer the whole schooling and curricula update was for parents, the better was the participatory feedback. As a result of this study, it is clear that while the discussion and longitudinal studies on learning and assessment are still on-going, there is no rush to return into an old system and heavy, centralized assessment instruction patterns. On the contrary, this study showed beneficial elements and development triggers towards even more collaborative and encouraging assessment.

scholarly journals Underutilization of workers: an analysis according to the lean management philosophy in basic education

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. s940-s959
Author(s):  
Alberto Eduardo Besser Freitag ◽  
Alexandre Barreto de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Basic Education ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Lean Management ◽  
Educational Organization ◽  
Management Philosophy ◽  
Education School ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Academic Qualifications

One of the eight wastes that Lean production, inspired by the Toyota Production System, proposes to study is the underutilization of workers, that is, the inadequate use of their intelligence. The sense is to provide listening and participation in improvement projects, of professionals who have experience in daily life and, in many cases, consistent academic qualifications.  The objective of this work is to study the importance of the participation of teachers and employees of a basic education school in the construction of new routines and work methods, in the context of the Lean management philosophy, justified by the scarcity of scientific literature on the subject. Brazil has about 184,000 basic education schools with one million four hundred thousand teachers working from kindergarten to the ninth grade of elementary school, and of these, 83.2% have a college degree, a percentage that grows every year. About the schools, 21.7% are private, 61.3% municipal, 16.6% state, and 0.4% are federal schools. As a research methodology, a systematic review of the literature was adopted, based on the PRISMA protocol, allowing the identification of 53 records, 14 of which were included in the literature review, due to their adherence to the researched subject. The main contribution of this paper is the identification of a research gap involving the underutilization of workers and adoption of the Lean management philosophy in the education sector, as well as a conceptual proposal of the positive impact on the educational organization results by not underutilizing workers, without wasting their intelligence.

Improvement of Students’ Ability to Analyzing Cases on Case Studies Through Journal and Learning Log

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Riska Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Guidance And Counseling ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Average Ability ◽  
Research Cycle ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Concept Of Truth ◽  
Learning Logs

The purpose of this research is to improve the ability of students in guidance and counseling  to  analyzing the case through journals and learning logs This research is classroom action research consists of two cycles. The research phase consisted of planning, implementation, observation and reflection. The research subject are students in guidance and counseling while they are in sixth semester, totaling 20 people who were taking courses in Case Study. The research instrument is the observation guidelines, assessment rubrics and documentation of case studies in the form of journals and learning logs, and case study reports. The study was conducted collaboratively with student magister’s program guidance and counseling. The results showed that in cycle 1 students are able to identify cases, to develop ideas about the case, select and use instruments to analyze the cause of the problem. The results of the research cycle 2, showed 17 of the 20 students were able to analyze the cause of the problem, select the type of service and provide appropriate assistance in accordance with problem cases. Overall value obtained by the students in the subject of Case Studies also increased. In terms of the ability of explanation of the concept, the concept of truth and creativity, based on the ratings given by fellow students of average ability students were in either category, although there is less good, as are associated with the activity of the opinion and the quality of the opinions expressed.

Is Anyone There? Being ‘Present' in Distance Education

2010 ◽  
pp. 194-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Reupert ◽  
Darryl Maybery
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Distance Teaching ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Subject

Research on higher education distance education tends to focus on the technical aspects of distance teaching, with little focus on the personal components of teaching and learning. In this chapter, students are interviewed to identify whether they want a personal presence from their lecturers and if so, what this presence might look like in distance education. Conversely, lecturers are interviewed to determine what they personally bring of themselves when teaching in distance mode. Results indicate that many, but not all, distance students want their lecturers to be passionate about their subject, form relationships and be open and available. However, there were some students, albeit a minority, who wanted to focus solely on the subject. Other students were clear that even though they valued lecturers’ personal revelations, these needed to be directly related to subject materials. Similarly, distance lecturers suggest that while they do reveal aspects of their personality there are also boundaries as to how much they ‘give’ of themselves. A case study is presented that extends this discussion and provides one approach, through the use of technology, for taking the ‘distance’ out of distance teaching.

scholarly journals JURY SIMULATED AS PROPOSED FOR THE APPROACH OF FUELS IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
pp. 72-81
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Rodrigues ANDRADE ◽  
Suzana Pedroza da SILVA ◽  
Carina Siqueira MORAIS ◽  
José Euzebio SIMÕES NETO
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
Chemical Structure ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Chemistry Teaching ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Chemical Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The City

Fuels are materials that possess the ability to release energy when there is change in the chemical structure, and are part of everyone's life in society, including students of basic education. This work aims to analyze the potential of teaching strategy Jury Simulated in the construction of chemical knowledge on fuels approach, in perspective of development conceptual, procedural and attitudinal. The survey was conducted in a municipal public school in the city of Carnaíba, countryside of Pernambuco, in Primary Education II, using as main pivot axis of a fictional case study about the closing of a gas station. To obtain the data, was use as research tools: notes the observation of the field during the course of the jury and interviews with students. After completion of the jury, students demonstrated arguments and more profound chemical knowledge on the subject, and prove motivated and interested throughout the process. It was concluded that the simulated jury performed in a powerful didactic and methodological strategy, effective and interesting for addressing chemical knowledge related to the daily lives of students, in case the fuels, issue not yet worked in recreational activities in chemistry teaching.

scholarly journals An Investigation of the Impact of Research-led Education on Student Learning and Understandings of Research.

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-53
Author(s):  
Fuming Jiang ◽  
◽  
Pamela J. Roberts ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Subject Area ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Business Negotiation ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
University Courses ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Students ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Practical Implications

This study investigated the impact of two approaches to research-led education on students’ learning and their understandings of research in the context of two university courses in international business involving third year undergraduate and graduate students. One approach involved the lecturer using his research as the basis for a case-study assignment involving an intercultural business negotiation. In the second approach students conducted a research project in which they reviewed the academic literature to identify practical implications for business and theoretical gaps as the basis for future research. A questionnaire was used to explore students’ perceptions of the impacts on their learning and understandings of research. Students’ understandings of research were most informed by the research based learning project which was presented to them as an experience of doing research. Students valued the lecturer using his research in the course because of his enthusiasm and his expertise and mentoring in doing research. However many students developed only limited understandings of research in the subject area, despite their direct experience of the lecturers’ research. The implications for the design of research-led education approaches are explored.

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