Planning Curricular Proposals on Sound and Music with Prospective Secondary-School Teachers

Sound is a preferred context to build foundations on wave phenomena, one of the most important disciplinary referents in physics. It is also one of the best-set frameworks to achieve transversality, overcoming scholastic level and activating emotional aspects which are naturally connected with every day life, as well as with music and perception. Looking at sound and music by a transversal perspective - a border-line approach between science and art, is the adopted statement for a teaching proposal using meta-cognition as a strategy in scientific education. This work analyzes curricular proposals on musical acoustics, planned by prospective secondary-school teachers in the framework of a Formative Intervention Module answering the expectation of making more effective teaching scientific subjects by improving creative capabilities, as well as leading to build logical and scientific categorizations able to consciously discipline artistic activity in music students. With this aim, a particular emphasis is given to those concepts - like sound parameters and structural elements of a musical piece, which are best fitted to be addressed on a transversal perspective, involving simultaneously physics, psychophysics and music.Comment: 12 pages with 5 figures. Submitted for publication in Physics Curriculum Design, Development and Validation - GIREP 2008 book of selected papers, 200

Embodiment and embodied design

Picture this. A preverbal infant straddles the center of a seesaw. She gently tilts her weight back and forth from one side to the other, sensing as each side tips downward and then back up again. This child cannot articulate her observations in simple words, let alone in scientific jargon. Can she learn anything from this experience? If so, what is she learning, and what role might such learning play in her future interactions in the world? Of course, this is a nonverbal bodily experience, and any learning that occurs must be bodily, physical learning. But does this nonverbal bodily experience have anything to do with the sort of learning that takes place in schools - learning verbal and abstract concepts? In this chapter, we argue that the body has everything to do with learning, even learning of abstract concepts. Take mathematics, for example. Mathematical practice is thought to be about producing and manipulating arbitrary symbolic inscriptions that bear abstract, universal truisms untainted by human corporeality. Mathematics is thought to epitomize our species’ collective historical achievement of transcending and, perhaps, escaping the mundane, material condition of having a body governed by haphazard terrestrial circumstance. Surely mathematics is disembodied

Some resonances between Eastern thought and Integral Biomathics in the framework of the WLIMES formalism for modelling living systems

Forty-two years ago, Capra published “The Tao of Physics” (Capra, 1975). In this book (page 17) he writes: “The exploration of the atomic and subatomic world in the twentieth century has …. necessitated a radical revision of many of our basic concepts” and that, unlike ‘classical’ physics, the sub-atomic and quantum “modern physics” shows resonances with Eastern thoughts and “leads us to a view of the world which is very similar to the views held by mystics of all ages and traditions.“ This article stresses an analogous situation in biology with respect to a new theoretical approach for studying living systems, Integral Biomathics (IB), which also exhibits some resonances with Eastern thought. Stepping on earlier research in cybernetics1 and theoretical biology,2 IB has been developed since 2011 by over 100 scientists from a number of disciplines who have been exploring a substantial set of theoretical frameworks. From that effort, the need for a robust core model utilizing advanced mathematics and computation adequate for understanding the behavior of organisms as dynamic wholes was identified. At this end, the authors of this article have proposed WLIMES (Ehresmann and Simeonov, 2012), a formal theory for modeling living systems integrating both the Memory Evolutive Systems (Ehresmann and Vanbremeersch, 2007) and the Wandering Logic Intelligence (Simeonov, 2002b). Its principles will be recalled here with respect to their resonances to Eastern thought

From naive to scientific understanding of motion and its causes

The difference in the descriptions of motion phenomena made by pupils in the first grades of secondary school and physicists is quite evident. Conceptual metaphors hidden in language suggest that there is continuity between the conceptual structure involved in the description and the interpretation of motion of experts and laypersons. In this paper the presence of such a continuity is shown through a metaphor analysis of linguistic expressions from both kind of people

Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science

A collection of papers presented at the First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo, July 1994, including the following papers: ** Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science, Barry Smith ** The Bounds of Axiomatisation, Graham White ** Rethinking Boundaries, Wojciech Zelaniec ** Sheaf Mereology and Space Cognition, Jean Petitot ** A Mereotopological Definition of 'Point', Carola Eschenbach ** Discreteness, Finiteness, and the Structure of Topological Spaces, Christopher Habel ** Mass Reference and the Geometry of Solids, Almerindo E. Ojeda ** Defining a 'Doughnut' Made Difficult, N .M. Gotts ** A Theory of Spatial Regions with Indeterminate Boundaries, A.G. Cohn and N.M. Gotts ** Mereotopological Construction of Time from Events, Fabio Pianesi and Achille C. Varzi ** Computational Mereology: A Study of Part-of Relations for Multi-media Indexing, Wlodek Zadrozny and Michelle Ki

Advanced Technology for Engineering Education

This document contains the proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Technology for Engineering Education, held at the Peninsula Graduate Engineering Center, Hampton, Virginia, February 24-25, 1998. The workshop was jointly sponsored by the University of Virginia's Center for Advanced Computational Technology and NASA. Workshop attendees came from NASA, other government agencies, industry and universities. The objectives of the workshop were to assess the status of advanced technologies for engineering education and to explore the possibility of forming a consortium of interested individuals/universities for curriculum reform and development using advanced technologies. The presentations covered novel delivery systems and several implementations of new technologies for engineering education. Certain materials and products are identified in this publication in order to specify adequately the materials and products that were investigated in the research effort. In no case does such identification imply recommendation or endorsement of products by NASA, nor does it imply that the materials and products are the only ones or the best ones available for this purpose. In many cases equivalent materials and products are available and would probably produce equivalent results

Development of Interactive E-Modules of PjBL Models to Improve Understanding of Colloidal Concepts

Research on the development of learning media for Android-Based Interactive E- modules on colloidal material aims to produce valid, practical and effective learning media. The floating model used is a 4D development model. The trial of the learning media developed was carried out on students of SMAN 1 Kotabaru for the 2020/2021 academic year. The trials carried out were individual trials, small group trials and limited trials. Data collection techniques used validation sheets, readability questionnaires, response questionnaires and test assessments. Data analysis used descriptive analysis. The results showed that the developed media had met the following criteria: (1) Valid, based on a feasibility test by a group of experts with an average of 91.66% (very valid); (2) Practical, based on individual, group readability tests, as well as student and teacher response questionnaires with successive scores of 3.30 (very good); 3.40 (very good); 3.34 (very good) and 3.70 (very good); (3) Effective, based on the results of a limited trial, it can be seen from the average n-gain score of 0.73 (high). Overall, the e-module developed is able to improve students' conceptual understanding skills and as a form of renewal in chemistry learningPenelitian pengembangan media pembelajaran E-modul Interaktif Berbasis Android pada materi koloid bertujuan untuk menghasilkan media pembelajaran yang valid, praktis, dan efektif. Model yang digunakan adalah model pengembangan 4D. Uji coba pengembangan media pembelajaran dilakukan pada siswa SMA Negeri 1 Kotabaru tahun ajaran 2020/2021. Uji coba yang dilakukan adalah uji coba individu, uji coba kelompok kecil, dan uji coba terbatas. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan lembar validasi, keterbacaan angket, angket respon, dan tes penilaian. Analisis data menggunakan analisis deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa media yang dikembangkan telah memenuhi kriteria sebagai berikut: (1) Valid, berdasarkan uji kelayakan oleh kelompok ahli dengan rata-rata 91,66% (sangat valid); (2) Praktikum, berdasarkan tes keterbacaan individu, kelompok, serta angket respon siswa dan guru dengan skor berturut-turut 3,3 (sangat baik); 3.4 (sangat baik); 3,34 (sangat baik) dan 3,7 (sangat baik); (3) Efektif, berdasarkan hasil uji coba terbatas dapat dilihat dari rata-rata skor n-gain sebesar 0,73 (tinggi). Secara keseluruhan, e-modul yang dikembangkan mampu meningkatkan kemampuan pemahaman konsep siswa dan sebagai bentuk pembaharuan dalam pembelajaran kimia