Sketchography - Automatic Grading of Map Sketches for Geography Education

Geography is a vital classroom subject that teaches students about the physical features of the planet we live on. Despite the importance of geographic knowledge, almost 75% of 8th graders scored below proficient in geography on the 2014 National Assessment of Educational Progress. Sketchography is a pen-based intelligent tutoring system that provides real-time feedback to students learning the locations, directions, and topography of rivers around the world. Sketchography uses sketch recognition and artificial intelligence to understand the user’s sketched intentions. As sketches are inherently messy, and even the most expert geographer will draw only a close approximation of the river’s flow, data has been gathered from both novice and expert sketchers. This data, in combination with professors’ grading rubrics and statistically driving AI-algorithms, provide real-time automatic grading that is similar to a human grader’s score. Results show the system to be 94.64% accurate compared to human grading

Taking Note: A Design Solution for Physician Documentation to Balance the Benefits of Handwritten Notes and Electronic Health Records

Master of Design in Integrative DesignUniversity of Michiganhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/136865/1/THo_2017_MDes-Thesis.pd

La digitalización del aula de ciencias: creencias y prácticas

We describe and analyze educational beliefs encouraged by the implementation of the One Laptop Per Child program (OLPC) in Science classes across 9 secondary schools in Catalonia. Under the OLPC, classrooms are equipped with Wi-Fi, interactive whiteboards, a computer and an overhead projector; teachers and students work with a laptop computer, and textbooks are digital. Our data stem from in-depth semi-structured interviews with 22 teachers of Science and Technology subjects, who inform and critically assess their experience over the years in this technological context. Teachers’ beliefs about their subject of expertise and its teaching in relation to reading, writing and learning (through literacy practices), can be grouped into five categories: 1) Equipment, 2) Virtual Learning Environments (VLE), 3) Digital Textbooks, 4) Resources, and 5) Reading and Writing. Among others, we describe and interpret the following items: 1) why teachers are reluctant towards using mobile phones in the classroom, 2) why they prefer Moodle over other VLE, 3) how they criticize digital textbooks, and 4) how they find it difficult to teach scientific writing using keyboards –markedly scientific notation.Describimos y analizamos las creencias educativas que provoca la digitalización de las clases de ciencias en 9 centros catalanes de secundaria que utilizan el modelo institucional del 1x1 o un portátil por alumno (OLPC, one laptop per child). En este programa, las aulas están equipadas con wifi, pizarra digital, ordenador y proyector; alumnado y profesorado trabajan con portátiles y los libros de texto disponen de una versión digital. Los datos proceden de entrevistas en profundidad y semiestructuradas a 22 docentes de varias asignaturas científicas y tecnológicas, que relatan y valoran críticamente su experiencia con este entorno tecnológico después de varios años. Las creencias del profesorado sobre la disciplina y su didáctica, sobre todo las relacionadas con la lectura, la escritura y el aprendizaje (a través de la lectoescritura), se presentan en cinco apartados: Equipos, Plataformas, Libros digitales, Recursos y Lectura y escritura. La superación de la reticencia sobre el uso del móvil en el aula, la primacía de la plataforma Moodle, las críticas a los libros digitales, y las dificultades específicas de escritura de la notación científica con teclado, son algunos de los puntos que se describen e interpretan

An exploration of teaching and learning activities in mathematics flipped classrooms : A case study in an engineering program

Paper I is not available as a part of the dissertation due to the copyright. Author´s accepted manuscript of the paper is available in AURA as a separate file: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2655384.This research project is a case-study of three consecutive cohorts of engineering students being subject to the pedagogical approach of flipped classroom (Bergmann & Sams, 2012). The study, which is qualitative and based on a naturalistic research paradigm (Moschkovich & Brenner, 2000), considers various aspects of mathematical learning when students are subject to this new form of learner-centred teaching (Stephan, 2014). Research on Flipped Classroom (FC) has increased substantially during the last decade. However, the bulk of studies consider mostly student satisfaction and performance comparisons between traditional lecture-based and FC teaching. As such, they provide little insight into the fundamental aspects of what makes the FC in tertiary mathematics education efficient or not. As such, there is a definite lack of research that provides qualitative socio-cultural studies of FC teaching and learning. The aim of the study was to address these shortcomings in the research field.publishedVersio