Studi Kecerdasan Visual-Spasial Pada Anak Usia 5-6 Tahun Melalui Sentra Balok

Early Childhood Education (PAUD), can be used to explore children's intelligence. One of them is visual-spatial intelligence. Visual-spatial intelligence is important for children because visual-spatial intelligence enables children to learn visually and generate ideas. Children can think in concept (holistically) to understand something. To develop visual-spatial intelligence in children, the center block is one of the tools that can be used to develop it. Through the block center children can be taught to recognize the shape, color and size of the blocks. Block center was chosen because children love building designing games. Through designing and constructing a building such as a house, palace and other forms, it is hoped that the visual-spatial intelligence of children can develop. The method used in this research is the library research method, namely the form of research carried out through research report books, journals and other documents. In the beam center there are various geometric shapes in various sizes, some are colored and some are plain. In playing blocks, there are eleven stages, from simple to complex building. To be able to make children creative, teachers need to provide adequate support, opportunities, times, and facilities. The results of research on block center can be said to improve visual-spatial intelligence. Because the block center contributes to the improvement of visual-spatial intelligence. It can be seen from the conclusions of the research results that when children play in a block center with adequate support, opportunity, time, and facilities provided by the teacher to children, it can improve children's visual-spatial intelligence with the characteristics of a visually-spatial intelligent child having advantages. such as: children quickly understand the explanation from the teacher related to the building to be made, children can do more than the teacher's orders, children can mix colors well, children build beautifully, neatly and vary and children enjoy doing and enjoying playing blocks.Key words: Visual-Spatial Intelligence, Block Center, Teacher AbstrakPendidikan Anak Usia Dini (PAUD), dapat digunakan untuk menggali kecerdasan yang dimiliki anak. Salah satunya adalah kecerdasan visual-spasial. Kecerdasan visual-spasial penting dimiliki anak karena kecerdasan visual- spasial membuat anak dapat belajar secara visual dan memunculkan ide-ide. Anak dapat berfikir secara konsep (holistik) untuk memahami sesuatu. Untuk mengembangkan kecerdasan visual-spasial pada anak, sentra balok merupakan salah satu sarana yang dapat digunakan untuk mengembangkannya. Melalui sentra balok anak dapat diajarkan mengenal bentuk, warna serta ukuran dari balok tersebut. Sentra balok dipilih karena anak-anak menyukai permainan merancang bangunan. Melalui merancang dan membangun sebuah bangunan seperti rumah, istana dan bentuk lainnya diharapkan dapat mengembangkan kecerdasan visual-spasial pada anak. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode penelitian kepustakaan yaitu bentuk penelitian yang dilakukan melalui buku laporan penelitian, jurnal Di sentra balok terdapat berbagai bentuk geometri dalam berbagai ukuran ada yang berwarna dan ada yang polos. Dalam bermain balok ada sebelas tahapan, mulai dari sederhana sampai membangun secara komplek. Untuk dapat membuat anak menjadi kreatif maka guru perlu memberikan dukungan, kesempatan, waktu, serta sarana yang memadai. Hasil penelitian mengenai sentra balok dapat dikatakan meningkatkan kecerdasan visual-spasial. Karena sentra balok memberikan kontribusi terhadap peningkatan kecerdasan visual-spasial. Dapat dilihat dari kesimpulan hasil penelitian bahwa pada saat anak bermain di sentra balok dengan dukungan, kesempatan, waktu, serta sarana yang memadai yang diberikan guru kepada anak dapat meningkatkan kecerdasan visual-spasial anak dengan ciri-ciri anak yang cerdas secara visual-spasial memiliki kelebihan seperti : anak cepat memahami penjelasan dari guru yang berhubungan dengan bangunan yang akan dibuat, anak dapat melakukan lebih dari perintah guru, anak dapat memadukan warna dengan baik, anak membangun dengan indah, rapi dan bervariasi dan anak senang melakukan serta menikmati bermain balok.Kata kunci: Kecerdasan Visual-Spasial, Sentra Balok, Guru

Monitoring of vertical deformations by means high-precision geodetic levelling. Test case: The Arenoso dam (South of Spain)

The Arenoso reservoir is created by an embankment dam, with central clay core, slates and greywacke shoulders. This kind of engineering structure is subject of deformation due to factors such as changes of water level of the reservoir, seat structure, climate changes, etc. In general, dam monitoring involves measurements both outside (external shell) and inside the structure. A number of control points is established around the area of the dam and the measurements of the displacements of the control points take place at several epochs. In this study high-precision levelling techniques have been used to monitor the vertical deformations. In particular five high-precision levelling profiles were measured in five surveys: February and July 2008, March and July 2013 and August 2014. In this study the design, observations and results are presented. On the one hand the results put in evidence the precision of the observations that are always under 1-mm level. On the other hand these results indicate downstream (southeastward) motion of the thrust block center of the dam probably during the fall and winter. The subsidence reachs here the maximum with a value of −14 cm in 2014 (in respect of February 2008). The displacements observed at the berms of the dam exhibit a similar trend to the displacements observed at the crest but they are significantly smaller, as expected. The accumulative vertical displacements and the settlement index indicate the magnitude of the movements decrease in time, confirming the dam tends to stabilize.

Creation of prosocial play experiences inspired by Noddings’s ideas of centers of care

This paper describes the implementation of Noddings’s ideas of creating centers as a platform for developing in children caring, prosocial behavior. Different centers such as a veterinary center, grocery store, house, baby center, woodworking center, hairdressing, block center, and composting and recycling activities based on play, provide opportunities for stimulating the social development of children and create a caring community of learners based on sharing, helping each other, working as a team and caring for others’ wellbeing.

Tetr@s

Presentación El Proyecto TETR@S se encuentra ubicado en el Paso de la Vaca, San José, Costa Rica. Forma parte del plan maestro de regeneración de dicha zona y su objetivo principal es el generar apertura y reactivar los centros de cuadra. Se desarrolla una propuesta de intervención para un cuadrante en específico, la cual consiste en el planteamiento de un centro de entretenimiento nocturno y restaurantes de día. Los mismos comparten el centro de cuadra tanto a nivel cero como subterráneo.Presentation Project TETR@S is located in El Paso de la Vaca, San Jose, Costa Rica. It is part of the master plan for regeneration of the area and its main objective is to open and reactivate block centers. A proposal for intervention of a specific block was developed, featuring restaurants and entertainment activities. These projects share the block center both at ground and underground level.

Research on the Recursive and Step-by-Step Algorithm for Extraction of Point Laser Spot Center

Whentesting the flatness of plate iron, if there is no disturbance in the spotdetection, the traditional centroid method and circle fitting method can bewell applied to extract the point laser spot center. However, the disturbanceof droplets, dusts, oil droplet and other factors are unavoidably in thepractical projects, and then the detection precision will falls sharply. In orderto solve the problem, the recursive and step-by-step method of extracting pointlaser spot center is proposed. There are two steps in this method.The thresholdcentroid method is used as the first step to extract the spots which containthe black blocks. The second step is to construct the template whose center hasa black block, then extract the black block center by running phase correlationalgorithm and the center is just the center of the point laser spot. Theresults of experiments verify that the precision of the spot center coordinateextracted by the proposed method is obviously higher than that extracted by thecentroid method and the circle fitting method with the disturbance of droplets.