Mobile Learning Revolution: Implications for Language Pedagogy

Mobile technologies including cell phones and tablets are a pervasive feature of everyday life with potential impact on teaching and learning. “Mobile pedagogy” may seem like a contradiction in terms, since mobile learning often takes place physically beyond the teacher's reach, outside the walls of the classroom. While pedagogy implies careful planning, mobility exposes learners to the unexpected. A thoughtful pedagogical response to this reality involves new conceptualizations of what is to be learned and new activity designs. This approach recognizes that learners may act in more self-determined ways beyond the classroom walls, where online interactions and mobile encounters influence their target language communication needs and interests. The chapter sets out a range of opportunities for out-of-class mobile language learning that give learners an active role and promote communication. It then considers the implications of these developments for language content and curricula and the evolving roles and competences of teachers

Studying Aspects of Teamwork and Communication in a Virtual Reality Environment

This study aims to look at levels of teamwork and communication in virtual reality gaming systems. Researchers hope to analyze participants’ communication during the study with the assistance of Virtual Reality. This will allow an experimental view of how subjects interact together when presented with a difficult situation that requires communication to be their top priority if they wish to succeed as a team. Researchers believe that this experiment will allow a better look into the human element of Virtual Reality. This data will prove useful for a variety of applications beyond this study including, but not limited to, consumer, military and computerbased training simulations

Introduction of Metaverse to Our Lives and Unlimited Services in the World of Metaverse

Metaverse is a universe that combines our physical reality with the digital virtual world and goes beyond reality with multiple users with a permanent and lasting effect. The virtual world is based on digital people and objects and technologies that enable multi-sensory communication with people, such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). It provides highly professional communication in dynamic interactions between digital structures and real time. First, we encountered virtual worlds where avatars could teleport between them. Metaverse’s resurgence has come with social, immersive VR platforms compatible with multiplayer online video games, open game worlds, and AR co-working spaces. Metaverse is a concept that offers opportunities to create virtual communities in the commercial or beyond entertainment world; It is seen that it is a new generation platform that includes the three-dimensional sandbox where metaverse enthusiasts can interact through their avatars and is expressed as the “digital big bang” in cyberspace

Lower bounds on the communication complexity of two-party (quantum) processes

The process of state preparation, its transmission and subsequent measurement can be classically simulated through the communication of some amount of classical information. Recently, we proved that the minimal communication cost is the minimum of a convex functional over a space of suitable probability distributions. It is now proved that this optimization problem is the dual of a geometric programming maximization problem, which displays some appealing properties. First, the number of variables grows linearly with the input size. Second, the objective function is linear in the input parameters and the variables. Finally, the constraints do not depend on the input parameters. These properties imply that, once a feasible point is found, the computation of a lower bound on the communication cost in any two-party process is linearly complex. The studied scenario goes beyond quantum processes and includes the communication complexity scenario introduced by Yao. We illustrate the method by analytically deriving some non-trivial lower bounds. Finally, we conjecture the lower bound $n 2^n$ for a noiseless quantum channel with capacity $n$ qubits. This bound can have an interesting consequence in the context of the recent quantum-foundational debate on the reality of the quantum state.Comment: Conference version. A more extensive version with more details will be available soo

The Problem of Communicating Beyond Human Scale

Human beings can only experience a thin ribbon of reality constrained by the biological limits of our perceptual systems. Yet, science routinely examines processes and phenomenon outside of human scale and science-related policy requires us to use our conceptions of these toward informed policy making. It often falls to experts to assist non-experts in constructing conceptions beyond human scale. This paper will organize relevant literature from varied fields to introduce the cognitive challenge of comprehending concepts beyond human scale and to suggest what communication techniques experts may find useful to help non-experts arrive at a perception more closely aligned with reality

The Limits of Language as the Limits of the World: Cormac McCarthy’s and David Markson’s Post-Apocalyptic Novels

The article examines the correlation between the world and the word in two novels which engage with a post-apocalyptic scenario: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress (1988) and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006). Shifting the focus from the very event of catastrophe to the notion of survival through memory and storytelling, both novels problematize the strained relationship between language and reality in an increasingly diminished and dehumanized world. My aim is to investigate the limits of language as well as its capacity to withstand the chaos, loss, trauma, and death that follow the apocalypse. The issues to be considered include the influence of external experience on forms of communication, the role of central metaphors (the archive and the museum in Markson’s novel; cinders and the road in McCarthy’s) and their relation to the form of both novels, as well as the word’s (in)capacity to preserve human values and hopes. Both novels will be discussed as deconstructionist projects in which language becomes a habitat at once impossible and life-preserving: in Wittgenstein’s Mistress it plays the role of both home and prison, whereas in The Road it functions as messianic discourse which simultaneously carries, propels and extinguishes the human hope for a transcendental reality beyond the post-apocalyptic emptiness and doubt

Transition in Scientific Journals : towards a new Scientific Communication

New Information and Communication Technologies and the Internet in particular have arisen a lot of changes in how we communicate and disseminate knowledge. One of the areas where there have been many obvious changes would be in the Science Communication . Scientific Journals, together with academic conferences being one of its pillars, have probably received most of the pressure to change due to the new reality. Scientific journals , 350 years after its beginnings, and given also the crisis of the 80s , are into a strong discussion about its continuity , its business model, but also of spreading . Beyond the economic and scientific journals the adaptation to the Internet, and also beyond the debate on peer review as a quality model , one of the most important aspects for research , according to our point of view, is the added value of the magazines , both articles and the authors themselves. Thus , we studied the accessibility of content, something that is broader than Open Access. The ability to find and manage this content will also depend on the way in which they are produced and presented . It is intended , therefore, to define and study several parameters to establish the degree of accessibility of the contents of scientific journals . The areas of study were scientific journals in the field of Information and Documentation (according CARHUS ) compared to other areas , such as Science and Technology , Medicine and other social sciences. A quantitative approach is conducted to research and analysis on various parameters of four concentric levels of study: site publishers, journals , scientific articles , bibliography . Another focus of study would be the feasibility of formulating a degree of accessibility as a standard of quality

Engaging with clinicians to implement and evaluate the ICF in neurorehabilitation practice

INTRODUCTION: Although deemed a globally accepted framework, there remains scare evidence on the process and outcome of implementing the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) within neurorehabilitation. OBJECTIVES: This review briefly explores the existing, broader literature and then reports on two action research projects, undertaken in England, specifically within stroke and neurorehabilitation. Working with participants, including clinicians from in-patient and community settings, there are now 35 different ways identified for the use of the ICF. CONCLUSION: The outcome of the first project highlights that using the ICF enhances communication within and beyond the acute stroke service, fosters holistic thinking and clarifies team roles. To adopt it into clinical practice, the ICF must be adapted to meet local service needs. The use of action research has facilitated the knowledge translation process which has enabled the ICF to become a clinical reality in neurorehabilitation, with clinicians identifying a range of potential uses

Digital inclusion - the vision, the challenges and the way forward

This paper considers the vision and aspiration of digital inclusion, and then examines the current reality. It looks beyond the rhetoric to provide an analysis of the status quo, a consideration of some facilitators and challenges to progress and some suggestions for moving forward with renewed energy and commitment. The far-reaching benefits of digital inclusion and the crucial role it plays in enabling full participation in our digital society are considered. At the heart of the vision of universal digital inclusion is the deceptively simple goal to ensure that everyone is able to access and experience the wide-ranging benefits and transformational opportunities and impacts it offers. The reality is a long way from the vision: inequality of access still exists despite many national campaigns and initiatives to reduce it. The benefits and beneficiaries of a digital society are not just the individual but all stakeholders in the wider society. Research evidence has shown that the critical success factors for successful digital participation are (i) appropriate design and (ii) readily available and on-going ICT (Information and Communication Technology) support in the community. Challenges and proven solutions are presented. The proposition of community hubs in local venues to provide user-centred ICT support and learning for older and disabled people is presented. While the challenges to achieve digital inclusion are very considerable, the knowledge of how to achieve it and the technologies which enable it already exist. Harnessing of political will is necessary to make digital inclusion a reality rather than a vision. With the cooperation and commitment of all stakeholders actualisation of the vision of a digitally inclusive society, while challenging, can be achieved and will yield opportunities and rewards that eclipse the cost of implementation