Examining Bilingual Teacher Candidates' Use of Digital Media

Digital media has transformed how we interact with each other, how we stay connected, and how we learn about the world around us. Digital media has also changed the teacher's role from knowledge provider to facilitator (Lee, 2006). Teachers however, continue to struggle with technology and curricula integration as a vehicle for engaging young learners with academics (Chen, 2010; Wachira & Keengwe, 2011). This chapter underscores the need to provide bilingual teacher candidates with specific instructional uses for digital media to increase their capacity with technology integration, pedagogy, and content knowledge (Mishra & Koehler, 2006). This chapter explores the use of digital media within an after-school technology project. This research lends additional support for teacher preparation programs to integrate the use of technology if they are to serve teachers who work with a growing culturally and linguistically diverse school-age population.

Organization of the project activities of students in the framework of implementation of the subject area "technology"

This article examines the development of technology education of general education institutions with direct participation and interaction with pedagogical universities. The article presents the analysis of the using of the high-tech equipment in the educational institutions, identified professional deficiencies among teachers of technological education in the using of the modern digital technologies. Based on the results of the study the article identifies effective ways to implement the requirements for modern school technology education in accordance with the updated FSES. The article also discusses various approaches of organizing the project activities of students in the framework of technological education. The authors show that the experience of teaching the subject area “Technology” accumulated in our country is the basis for its modernization. The successful experience of including Russia in the international movement “WorldSkills International” is at the same time the basis for assessing the quality of education and broadcasting practice to modernize the content of vocational training. This is especially true in the areas of promising professions and professions of the digital economy, which must be prepared already from school.

Research Committee Update: The curmudgeon's column: High-tech low tech

When I posted to LinkedIn some time back to generate publicity for my Geophysical Society of Houston technical lunch talk on beam tomography, one of the interesting comments from a colleague at a large service company was that beam technology is “a technology with many benefits that unfortunately is commonly regarded as old school/low tech.” I loved receiving the comment because it gives me an opportunity to talk about one of my favorite business concepts that I always look to apply: high-tech low tech. “High tech” is a term for new technology that incorporates advanced features. “Low tech” is old-school technology. I'll start with an example: the story of the Nest thermostat.

ABOUT THE UNUSUAL MONOGRAPH «MILK OF KINDNESS» BY ACADEMICIAN OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES A.G. KHRAMTSOV AND ITS AUTHOR

В своей новой монографии «Млеко доброты» А.Г. Храмцов, ученый мирового уровня, рассказывает о значимых этапах развития российской молочной промышленности, ее тесной взаимосвязи с отечественной наукой и достижениях своих наставников, соратников и учеников. Монография «Млеко доброты» – это история жизни А.Г. Храмцова, крестьянского сына, который прошел путь от студента до академика Российской академии наук и создателя научной школы «Технология живых систем». Он обладает такими качествами, как высокий профессионализм, невероятное трудолюбие, богатая эрудиция, которые определили его государственный подход к решению научных и производственных задач. In his new monograph «Milk of Kindness» A.G. Khramtsov, a world-class scientist, talks about the significant stages of the development of the Russian dairy industry, its close relationship with domestic science and the achievements of his mentors, colleagues and students. The monograph «Milk of Kindness» is the life story of A.G. Khramtsov, a peasant son who went from a student to an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the creator of the scientific school «Technology of Living Systems». He possesses such qualities as high professionalism, incredible diligence, rich erudition, which determined his state approach to solving scientific and industrial problems.

An Analysis of Subject Competencies Applied in the Activity Tasks of the ‘Home Life and Safety’ area in Middle School Technology-Home Economics Textbooks based on the 2015 Revised National Curriculum

The purpose of this study was to analyze two subject competencies (practical problem-solving capability and independent life capability) reflected in the activity tasks included in the ‘home life and safety’ area of 12 middle school technology-home economics textbooks in accordance with the 2015 revised curriculum. The analysis criteria were sub-elements of two subject competencies. Seven sub-elements were derived from each competency. Frequency analysis was performed to determine how often the sub-elements were reflected in the activity tasks. The results were as follows. First, with regard to the sub-elements of ‘practical problem-solving capability’, ‘value judgment’ was reflected most frequently in the activity tasks followed by ‘exemplification of solution’, ‘logical thinking’, ‘critical thinking’, ‘decision-making’, ‘practical reasoning’, and ‘evaluation of solutions’. Secondly, the sub-elements of ‘independent life capability’ were unevenly distributed in the activity tasks. The ‘capability to perform conscious living’ was reflected most frequently followed by ‘development and self-identity’, ‘time, money, and leisure management’, and ‘reasonable consumption and resource utilization’. For teachers wanting to teach activity-oriented classes and student participatory classes, the results pinpoint the materials necessary to develop learners’ subject competencies by using textbooks from different publishing companies.