Media Screen Time for Young Children, a Culturally Competent Approach

Young children are being exposed to excessive screen time. There are many health and developmental risks of excessive or inappropriate media exposure, including sleep disturbances, developmental delays, and obesity. New American families are likely unaware of the consequences of too much screen time in young children.https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/fmclerk/1312/thumbnail.jp

Child safety: a competent approach

Піклування про дитину, захист її фізичного і психологічного здоров'я - пріоритетні завдання батьків і педагогів. Та чи достатньо компетентні ми в організації безпечного освітнього середовища як у дошкільному закладі, так і вдома? Чи вміємо самі діяти в екстремальних умовах, приймати нестандартні рішення? І як сформувати такі вміння в дітей дошкільного віку, відмовившись від знаннєвого підходу на користь компетентнісного? Автор у статті розмірковує над цими питаннями.Забота о ребенке, защита его физического и психологического здоровья - приоритетные задачи родителей и педагогов. Но достаточно ли мы компетентны в организации безопасной образовательной среды как в дошкольном учреждении, так и дома? Умеем ли сами действовать в экстремальных условиях, принимать нестандартные решения? И как сформировать умения у детей дошкольного возраста в пользу компетентностного подхода? Автор в статье размышляет над этими вопросами.Caring for a child, protecting his physical and psychological health are the priority tasks of parents and teachers. But are we competent enough to organize a safe educational environment both in a preschool institution and at home? Are we able to act in extreme conditions, make non-standard decisions? And how to build skills in preschool children in favor of a competency-based approach? The author reflects on these issues in the article

MoPark Initiative, Metadata Options Appraisal (Phase I)

Examines – and makes recommendations on - the needs of the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park as regards the metadata, metadata standards, and metadata management required for the competent handling of digital materials both now and in the future. Proposes an iterative approach to determining metadata requirements, working within a METS-based framework

A Pedagogical Approach to Teaching Senior Business Majors in a Small Liberal Arts University: Creating and Operating a Real Business

The question of how to motivate students in today’s college classroom has plagued college faculty members. We ask faculty to be competent in their subject area, yet how much focus is there on the art of motivating students in their classroom? The purpose of this article is to describe one unique pedagogical approach with senior business majors in one small liberal arts university in a senior business class

Faecal microbiota transplantation : a regulatory hurdle?

During faecal microbiota transplantation, stool from a healthy donor is transplanted to treat a variety of dysbiosis-associated gut diseases. Competent authorities are faced with the challenge to provide adequate regulation. Currently, regulatory harmonization is completely lacking and authorities apply non-existing to most stringent requirements. A regulatory approach for faecal microbiota transplantation could be inserting faecal microbiota transplantation in the gene-, cell-and tissue regulations, including the hospital exemption system in the European Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products regulation, providing a pragmatic and efficacy-risk balanced approach and granting all patients as a matter of principle access to this therapy

Automatic Error Localization for Software using Deductive Verification

Even competent programmers make mistakes. Automatic verification can detect errors, but leaves the frustrating task of finding the erroneous line of code to the user. This paper presents an automatic approach for identifying potential error locations in software. It is based on a deductive verification engine, which detects errors in functions annotated with pre- and post-conditions. Using an automatic theorem prover, our approach finds expressions in the code that can be modified such that the program satisfies its specification. Scalability is achieved by analyzing each function in isolation. We have implemented our approach in the widely used Frama-C framework and present first experimental results. This is an extended version of [8], featuring an additional appendix.Comment: This is an extended version of [8], featuring an additional appendi

Hero stories: A coping strategy for a child who has autism

This paper explores Hero Stories, a different narrative approach developed to support a child with autism to gain self-control and allow him to navigate his world as a competent and capable learner. It examines the development and use of 'Hero Stories books' as a strategy for assisting a child with autism to cope with stressful situations within the home and school, and explores how these stories can contribute to enhancing a child's sense of themselves as thinkers and powerful learners, in charge of their lives