Design of teaching materials informed by consideration of learning-impaired students

The general aim of this project is to fundamentally re-think the design of teaching materials in view of what is now known about cognitive deficits and about what Howard Gardner has termed ‘multiple intelligences’. The applicant has implemented this strategy in two distinct areas, the first involving the writing of an English language programme for Chinese speakers, the second involving the construction of specialized equipment for teaching elementary logic to blind students. The next phase (for which funding is sought) is to test the effectiveness of the logic device, because in theory – the one to be tested – materials the design of which is informed by the above rationale will provide a richer learning experience for non-impaired users

Book Reviews [ October 2014]

Reviews of the following four recent books: The Muslims are coming!: Islamophobia, extremism and the domestic war on terror by Arun Kundnani reviewed by Nasima Hassan, Senior Lecturer, University of East London; Beyond early reading by David Waugh and Sally Neaum (eds.) reviewed by Fran Paffard, Senior Lecturer in Early Years and Primary Education, University of East London; Action research in education by Mary McAteer, reviewed by Adrian Copping, Senior Lecturer, University of Cumbria; and Leading professional practice in education by Christine Wise, Pete Bradshaw and Marion Cartwright (eds.), reviewed by Michele J. Burns, Deputy Headteacher, The Sandon School, Essex

Information behaviour of the researcher of the future

This study was commissioned by the British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee to identify how the specialist researchers of the future, currently in their school or pre-school years, are likely to access and interact with digital resources in five to ten years\u27 time. This is to help library and information services to anticipate and react to any new or emerging behaviours in the most effective way. In this report, the authors define the \u27Google generation\u27 as those born after 1993 and explore the world of a cohort of young people with little or no recollection of life before the web. The broad aims of the study are to gather and assess the available evidence to establish: ? whether or not, as a result of the digital transition and the vast range of information resources being digitally created, young people, the \u27Google generation\u27, are searching for and researching content in new ways and whether this is likely to shape their future behaviour as mature researchers? ? whether or not new ways of researching content will prove to be any different from the ways that existing researchers and scholars carry out their work? ? to inform and stimulate discussion about the future of libraries in the internet era These questions are of enormous strategic importance but they need to be balanced against considerable media hype surrounding the \u27Google generation phenomenon, so a healthy degree of critical distance is needed. A bewildering array of titles has attached itself to a younger generation that is growing up in an internet dominated, media-rich culture: Net Generation, Digital Natives, Millennials and many others. The untested assumption is that this generation is somehow qualitatively \u27different\u27 from what went before: that they have different aptitudes, attitudes, expectations and even different communication and information \u27literacies\u27 and that these will somehow transfer to their use of libraries and information services as they enter higher education and research careers

Easterner, Volume 47, No. 2, September 28, 1995

This issue of the Easterner contains articles about the closure of the Martin Hall preschool, a budget meeting including President Marshall Drummond, state legislators, and Eastern employees, new Education and Human Development Dean Phyllis Edmundson, drafting a new University vision statement, NPR host Bob Edwards, Rape Awareness Week, and the football and volleyball seasons.https://dc.ewu.edu/student_newspapers/2072/thumbnail.jp

Villains to heroes: Celebrity criminals in 1960\u27s Britain and their subsequent rise in popularity

This thesis sits at the intersection of history, media and cultural studies, and will undertake a study into the emergence of criminal celebrities in Britain in the 1960s and their subsequent rise in popularity. It will seek to explain the reasons for and cultural impact of this emergence and rise against an ever-changing social, cultural, political and media landscape, including changes in social and cultural attitudes. In doing so, the study will seek to establish the extent to which criminal celebrities are a product of their time. The thesis will essentially comprise two main strands with reference to criminal celebrities, one cultural and the other commercial. The first strand will concern the emergence and rise in popularity of criminal celebrities in Britain in the 1960s and will focus on their cultural impact, not least how they became icons of popular culture. The second strand will seek to explain the rise in popularity of criminal celebrities by viewing them through the lens of crime as entertainment. Crime as entertainment, which will be one of the central themes of this study, is inextricably linked with commercial factors which place criminal celebrities in a commercially driven marketplace where they are packaged and sold as entertainment. This study will demonstrate a nexus between the two main strands of the thesis through three case studies. The case studies will be in respect of criminals who rose to celebrity in Britain in the 1960s, namely international drug dealer Howard Marks, Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs, and East End of London gangsters the Kray twins. This nexus will be brought into relief in identifying to varying extents the cultural shift which gave the respective case-study subjects respectability and acceptability in society, and where the motif of the good criminal which runs through this thesis, has helped cement this validation. The point of connection between what might be termed cultural acceptability and commercialism is that criminal celebrities once validated by society become, like any other celebrities, targets for commercial exploitation. Criminal celebrities thus become commodities sold in the name of entertainment `to a receptive audience whose appetite for sensation itself has helped foster and indeed institutionalise a culture in respect of them

A Strategy for Creating a Worship Culture that Engages Older and Emerging Generations at Grace Baptist Church

To educate older generations and engage younger generations in the authentic worship of God, this paper will develop an intentional strategy to create a culture of worship at Grace Baptist Church that is conducive to people at all ages and stages of life. The purpose of this three-part paper is to detail a strategy for introducing a biblically sensitive worship culture into the ministry of Grace Baptist. The goal is to unite those with enduring spiritual heritages and new worshippers who approach God through postmodern senses into a worship community that values diversity. One way to facilitate this is through a worship culture that reflects God’s glory and creatively retells his story. The first part of this discussion investigates the ministry context at Grace Baptist and traces its spiritual identity. Located in Fort Worth, Texas and steeped in Independent Baptist fundamentalism, the church has enjoyed a stable ministry during its over fifty-year existence. As it approaches midlife, however, Grace Baptist must adapt to reach emerging worshippers who have been influenced by changes in the broader culture. Part One will explore these cultural changes and relevant demographic data. The second part will detail the biblical and theological foundation of a worship culture that is sensitive to unbelievers and Christians alike. A brief overview of pertinent Scripture will highlight the creativity of God, his pursuit of those who worship him in spirit and truth, the example of Paul and his preferring others for the sake of the gospel, and the consummation of human relationship with God. A theology of ministry as it pertains to leading change will be included. Stemming from these underpinnings, the final part of the paper will offer a core strategy for creating a culture of worship and implementing worship renewal. Short-term and long-term ministry initiatives for enhancing the worship culture also will be presented. Finally, a tool to provide routine appraisal of the worship environment will be provided. Content Reader: Robb Redman, Th

Making Research Matter

"EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Written by a leading expert in the field, this practical and accessible book is an essential guide to knowledge exchange, impact and research dissemination in health and social care. Providing the why, what, who, how and when of research impact, the book helps researchers turn raw findings into useful, high-impact evidence for policymakers, practitioners and the public. It will help researchers at all stages of their career to maximise the impact of their work.

Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age

At a time when most commentators fixate on American poetry's supposed ""death,"" Kevin Stein's Poetry's Afterlife instead proposes the vitality of its aesthetic hereafter. The essays of Poetry's Afterlife blend memoir, scholarship, and personal essay to survey the current poetry scene, trace how we arrived here, and suggest where poetry is headed in our increasingly digital culture. The result is a book both fetchingly insightful and accessible. Poetry's spirited afterlife has come despite, or perhaps because of, two decades of commentary diagnosing American poetry as moribund if not already deceased. With his 2003 appointment as Illinois Poet Laureate and his forays into public libraries and schools, Stein has discovered that poetry has not given up its literary ghost. For a fated art supposedly pushing up aesthetic daisies, poetry these days is up and about in the streets, schools, and universities, and online in new and compelling digital forms. It flourishes among the people in a lively if curious underground existence largely overlooked by national media. It's this second life, or better, Poetry's Afterlife, that his book examines and celebrates