Tecnología en la Enseñanza del Inglés

Documento PDF, 25 páginasGuía de estudio para el curso Tecnología en la enseñanza del inglés, código 5180, del Programa Diplomado, Bachillerato y Licenciatura en Enseñanza del Inglés para I y II ciclos que imparte la UNED.Universidad Estatal a Distancia de Costa Ric

Energy Power, Digital Infrastructure and Elearning Platforms: Afrrican Experience.

Information and communication technologies are one of the most pervasive technologies in the world, second only to 'human intelligence' or the human brain. Thus, understanding the factors that determine the diffusion of new technologies across african countries is important to understanding the process of economic development. And whereas, energy is linked with the capacity to perform, the rate at which energy is consumed for the acceleration of the pace of socio-economic activities is regarded as power. Consequently, it will be obvious that the magnitude of the standard of living in any society; the growth and development of such an economy; and its ability to affect the course of events(such as ICT revolution)will be a function of the extent to which its energy(power) resources are developed and utilised. This paper therefore argued for the need to provide assistance in reducing vulnerability and building the capacity of african countries to more widely reap the benefits of the clean development mechanism in areas such as the development of cleaner and renewable energies. Inevitably, this is the critical condition for the sustainability of the emergent e-learning platforms and digital networks in africa.ICT, learning, elearning, development, energy, power, information, communication, solar, electricity, wind, governance, africa, electronics, telecommunications, internet, digital, satellite, renewable energy, gas turbine, power plants, bandwidth, coal, hydro, biomass, steam, transmission, distribution, utilisation

MEDIA TEACHING DEVELOPMENT THROUGH INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD BASED ON VIRTUAL LABORATORY IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

Vocational School (SMK) is designed to prepare students or students who are ready to enter the world of work and be able to develop a professional attitude in the field of vocational, and must be able to provide the competencies or skills that can improve the quality of graduates to achieve success. In this study was developed through a practicum teaching media based interactive whiteboard with a virtual laboratory as a means of utilizing computer animation and 3-dimensional simulations along with the development of hardware -based touchscreen. This requires the development of a research model development Cennamo and Kalk. The design of the display design of Virtual Laboratory (LaVir) can be used to support activities in the laboratory practice. Activities that occur in the virtual lab consists of modifying the circuit, building a circuit, put the circuit, take measurements and subsequent component is an evaluation of a series that have been made. The next stage is how the virtual laboratory can be used by teachers and students of SMK through an interface that is touchscreen media. When teachers or students carry out practical activities on the interactive whiteboard cursor movement will be followed by a cursor that exist in the virtual laboratory. The results of the assessment of teaching practice through interactive media -based virtual lab whiteboard expert judgment obtained responses comprising the content aspect, practical design aspects, aspects of the display (Audio Visual), the virtual aspect, programming aspects, and aspects of electronics shows the overall mean score highly rated better. Keywords: Media Teaching, Interactive Whiteboard , Virtual Laborator

“Estoy Explorando Science”: Emerging Bilingual Students Problematizing Electrical Phenomena Through Translanguaging

As science education continues to embrace science-as-practice, equitable science learning environments must value and leverage emergent bilingual students’ ways of communicating. This study investigates the translanguaging practices of a group of elementary-aged emergent bilingual students while they problematized electrical phenomena. Building on asset-oriented theories for supporting student learning, I utilize translanguaging as a theoretical and pedagogical lens for understanding how emergent bilingual students leverage their full semiotic repertoires for productive disciplinary engagement. The study took place in an out-of-school program focused on creating opportunities for students to problematize electrical phenomena, specifically electrical resistance. I present a close analysis of students constructing models of electric flow through a circuit and how electrical resistance regulates that flow. The findings also include evidence that students engaged in different kinds of translanguaging practices when problematizing electrical phenomena and co-constructing knowledge with each other and the instructor. Specifically, students drew from and used multiple linguistic and non-linguistic semiotic resources for communicating their models. Finally, the findings suggest that the instructor\u27s pedagogical moves and own translanguaging practices implicitly signaled to students when and how to participate in translanguaging practices themselves. The findings emphasize the importance of desettling what counts as productive forms of communication in science for elementary-aged emergent bilingual students by eschewing pedagogical models that police discursive boundaries. Therefore, equitable science learning environments must create opportunities for emergent bilingual students to leverage their full semiotic repertoires for meaning-making, by inviting and valuing multiple languages and gestures

Personalized Student Assessment based on Learning Analytics and Recommender Systems

This paper presents a process based on learning analytics and recommender systems with the objective of analyzing student assessment in order to provide clues that can help teachers in scaffolding the students’ performance. For this, a set of tests was used to evaluate students' competence in direct current circuits. The tests had multiple versions and to solve them each student had to use multiple approaches. The results indicate a better performance in calculus and simulations approaches when compared with hands-on and remote laboratories approaches. The analyses also provide support for the recommendation step allowing the configuration of a knowledge base. The process as a whole is consistent in what regards its ability to make suggestions to the students as they complete a given test and to provide teachers with information that can help them formulate strategies to positively impact students’ learning.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Creating traces, sharing insight : explorations in embodied cognition design

This investigation explores relations between 1) a theory of human cognition, called Embodied Cognition, 2) the design of interactive systems and 3) the practice of ‘creative group meetings’ (of which the so-called ‘brainstorm’ is perhaps the best-known example). The investigation is one of Research-through-Design (Overbeeke et al., 2006). This means that, together with students and external stakeholders, I designed two interactive prototypes. Both systems contain a ‘mix’ of both physical and digital forms. Both are designed to be tools in creative meeting sessions, or brainstorms. The tools are meant to form a natural, element in the physical meeting space. The function of these devices is to support the formation of shared insight: that is, the tools should support the process by which participants together, during the activity, get a better grip on the design challenge that they are faced with. Over a series of iterations I reflected on the design process and outcome, and investigated how users interacted with the prototypes

VR from a Learning Perspective

Det finns många exempel på att använda teknologi i skolan för att förbättra elevers lärande. En relativt oanvänd teknologi i utbildning är Virtual Reality. De flesta VR applikationer som används i utbildning idag är passiva virtuella studiebesök, där användaren interagerar med applikationen genom att observera den virtuella världen. Detta examensarbete undersöker om interaktiva Virtual Reality applikationer kan ha en positiv effekt på elevers lärande och engagemang, när det kommer till att lära sig grunderna i naturvetenskap. Detta utfördes genom att utveckla en applikation och testa den på högstadieelever. Detta exjobb studerar också hur en Virtual Reality applikation bör utvecklas för att fungera som ett lärandeverktyg. Applikationen lär ut grunderna i elektriska kretsar och designades med en användarcentrerad designprocess och baseras på variationsteori. Ämnet elektriska kretsar valdes baserat på enkäter och en intervju med lärare. En komparativ studie utfördes med två grupper av elever; en grupp som hade en traditionell lektion, och en grupp som använde Virtual Reality applikationen. Båda grupperna testades på vad de hade lärt sig och den andra gruppen svarade på en enkät om deras upplevelse med applikationen. Resultatet från testet visar att eleverna uppskattade användandet av Virtual Reality som lärandeverktyg och att de hade lärt sig av att använda applikationen. På grund av det låga antalet medverkande och att eleverna hade mycket kort tid med applikationen kunde inga konkreta svar ges på huruvida elever lär sig bättre med Virtual Reality. Dock visades det att Virtual Reality har god potential som ett lärandeverktyg på grund av Virtual Realitys uppslukande och interaktiva karaktär.There are many examples of using technology in schools for enhancing student’s learning experience. A relatively unexplored technology in education is Virtual Reality. Most of the existing VR applications aimed at learning are passive virtual field trips, where the user only interacts with the application by observing the virtual world. This thesis explores if interactive Virtual Reality applications can have a positive effect on high school students’ learning and engagement when it comes to learning the basics of natural science. This was done by developing a Virtual Reality application and testing it on high school students. The thesis also studies how a Virtual Reality application should be developed to function as a learning tool. The application teaches the basics of electric circuits and was designed using a user-centered design process and by utilizing variation theory. Electric circuits was chosen as a subject, based on questionnaires and an interview with teachers. A comparative study was performed with two groups of students; one group had a traditional lecture and the other used the Virtual Reality application. Both groups were then tested on what they had learned and the second group answered a questionnaire about their experience with the application. The results of the test show that the students enjoyed using Virtual Reality as a learning tool and that they were able to learn. Due to the small sample size and the short time each student had with the application, there was no conclusive answer to whether or not the students could learn better from a Virtual Reality application. However, it was concluded that Virtual Reality has great potential as a learning tool due to the immersive and interactive nature of Virtual Reality technology