The Potential of Digital Tools in Art Lessons at Junior School Level to Improve Artistic Ability Using Tamazight Fonts

The aim of this research is to explore how pupils in art classes can use creative digital art tools to redesign Tamazight fonts, in order to develop children’s artistic creativity, enable them to learn about a new culture, and to help the teacher assess the creativity of pupils in the art class. It can also help students to improve their talents in drawing. The study could relate to research in Libya among the Amazigh people (better known as Berber) and possibly the development of Tamazight fonts with new uses in art. The research involved students aged 9-10 years old working with digital art tools, and was designed to explore the potential of digital technology by discovering suitable tools and techniques to develop children’s artistic performance using Tamazight fonts. The project also sought to show the aesthetic aspects of these characters and to stimulate the artistic creativity of these young people

A systematic review of pedagogical approaches that can effectively include children with special educational needs in mainstream classrooms with a particular focus on peer group interactive approaches

The broad background to this review is a long history of concepts of special pupils and special education, and a faith in special pedagogical approaches. The rise of inclusive schools and some important critiques of special pedagogy (e.g. Hart, 1996; Norwich and Lewis, 2001; Thomas and Loxley, 2001) have raised the profile of teaching approaches that ordinary teachers can and do use to include children with special educational needs in mainstream classrooms. Inclusive education itself is increasingly conceived as being about the quality of learning and participation that goes on in inclusive schools rather than simplistic matters of where children are place

THE USE OF MULTIMEDIA IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING: A CASE STUDY AT STATE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 16 OF PALEMBANG

ABSTRACT: This study entitled the used of Multimedia in English Language Teaching (a case study at State Junior High School 16 of Palembang) is intended to figure out how the use of Multimedia in English language teaching to the first levels. Learning to read any language is a complex process that depends initially on multiple decoding skills. Once children are able to master decoding skills, the influence of other variables in the reading progress is more noticeable. Learning and teaching a foreign language needs a lot of patience, energy, time, creativity and competence. The success of the teaching and learning of foreign language skills including English is determined by a number of factors such as students, teachers, teaching methods, techniques, and instructional Multimedia. English teaching Multimedia are very important for teacher to help students acquire new concept of the skills and language competences. English has been taught at primary level due to its important role. English teachers in this level need more knowledge about children in mastering English. It is done because children have certain characteristics that differ from adult learners. There are still many fascinating discussions that might be interesting to find out the real situation in the implementation of Multimedia in English language teaching, especially to children. The study employed case study research design. The used of multimedia in English language teaching. There are some variable which observe by the researcher, there are: Computer, Internet, Print text, and Movie. According to the students’ competencies, the teacher builds up new atmosphere in teaching learning process by using pint text in reading, speaking, writing and vocabulary. The used of movie help the students in all competencies, such as reading, speaking, listening, writing and vocabulary teaching learning process. By using multimedia can beneficial for some students who can adjust the idea of teaching media that are fun, pleasure, and interesting. However, if these things are not entirely applied, challenges may appear in applying it. Keywords: English language, multimedia, teachin

THE ROLE AND EFFECT OF MULTIMEDIA BASED HEALTH ANDWELLBEING AWARENESS PACKAGES FOR CHILDREN ANDYOUTH

Wellbeing is generally understood as the quality of people’s lives. Promoting well-being and public health awareness involves understanding and addressing adults as well as children and young people. The effect of wellbeing education programs on children depends on the method and style in which the information is transmitted. In spite of many conventional methods like small group discussions, large school assemblies, or lecture workshops are addressed, initiative steps could be taken developing a multimedia packages that would be able to assist children in increasing their knowledge and awareness on public health and wellbeing. This paper reports the findings of using multimedia packages in increasing the knowledge and perceived awareness of children on nutrition and physical health. The study was conducted with a sample of 30 children aged 10 – 12 years, traditional Lectures and discussions were held for 15 children (the traditional lectures group), while Multimedia packages program was applied to the other 15 children (Post-test group), both for 4 sessions over a period of 4 weeks. It was found that the children’s nutrition & physical health perception and health-promoting behavior scores were higher at a significant level in the Post-test group. In particular, health-promoting behavior scores in the Post-test group were higher by 21%. The results indicate that nutrition & physical health perception and promoting health behaviors among children was increased after they were exposed to multimedia applications. The aim of this paper is to empower users and decision makers to make informed technological choices and to actively participate in the exploitation and developing of Multimedia programs in the health sector

Wild beasts and other curiosities: West Australian research, issues and innovations in early childhood education

Editorial Is it true that young children need to play more, that perceptual-motor programs don\u27t work, or that schools can learn lessons from child care? Do you know how to turn children into \u27greenies\u27, help them express the wild beast within, or use computers to develop vital skills? If you\u27re unsure, outraged, confused or curious, then this book is for you! Practitioners and academics in early childhood have written these papers for the Edith Cowan Memorial Conference for Early Childhood in 1996. The chapters are diverse in style and topic, but are linked by the authors\u27 deep interest in the education and welfare of children 0-8 in Western Australia. Some papers broach new and controversial topics, while others cast new light on old favourites. Many topics are complex, and few answers are clear-cut. Some chapters report current projects, and represent the growing number of practitioners who are refining their skills as researchers. Skimming down the contents pages, it is easy to see why the challenges of early childhood are increasing. Practitioners are expected to do a great deal, and to know a great deal, and the knowledge base keeps changing and expanding

Technology and literacy in early childhood educational settings: a review of research

This literature review provides an overview of research into technology and literacy for children aged 0-8 in educational settings from 2003-2009. The paper begins by exploring the different assumptions about the role of digital texts that underpin the studies considered, identifying three loose categories of studies which position technology as: deliverer of literacy; site for interaction around texts; and medium for meaning-making. Following this, actor-network theory (Latour, 2005) is used to consider other ways that technology and children may be ‘acting upon’ literacy in educational settings through recontexualising meanings from other domains. The paper concludes by arguing that there is a need for more extensive exploratory research in this field, which considers how digital practices within educational settings relate to other dimensions of children’s literacy learning, in order to better understand how new technologies are and could be contributing to children’s literacy within educational settings. It also suggests that actor-network theory may offer a way of destabilising the assumptions that frame research into young children’s engagement with new technologies in order to conceptualise this in new ways

The Development Pop-Up Books To Improve Children’s Language Skills

This study aimed to determine the improvement of language learning ability by using a pop-up book as learning media. Early childhood education is carried out by educators and parents in the process of care and education for children by creating an aura and environment where children can use experiences that provide opportunities to know and understand learning experiences that they have gained from the environment, from the way, using and experimenting that goes on repeatedly and maybe for the whole potential and intelligence of the child. The learning media was prepared using the ADDIE model with the developmental steps, namely analysis, development, implementation, and evaluation. The instruments used in the data study consisted of: validation of material, media, peers and results for sharing and the results of developing Pop Up Book media. From the learning outcomes of students through academic techniques namely daily development achievement scale shows that the development of the students in accordance with the expectations and activeness of students is very good. This shows that the product development of the Pop Up Book media was proper and very feasible and could attract the students in the learning process.AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui peningkatan kemampuan belajar bahasa dengan menggunakan buku Pop-up sebagai media pembelajaran. Pendidikan anak usia dini dilakukan oleh pendidik dan orang tua dalam proses pengasuhan dan pendidikan untuk anak-anak dengan menciptakan aura dan lingkungan di mana anak-anak dapat menggunakan pengalaman yang memberikan peluang untuk mengetahui dan memahami pengalaman belajar yang telah mereka peroleh dari lingkungan, dari cara, menggunakan dan bereksperimen yang berlangsung berulang kali dan mungkin untuk seluruh potensi dan kecerdasan anak. Media pembelajaran dikembangkan menggunakan model ADDIE dengan langkah pengembangan, yaitu analisis, pengembangan, implementasi, dan evaluasi. Instrumen yang digunakan dalam analisis data terdiri dari: validasi bahan, media, rekan dan hasil untuk berbagi dan hasil pengembangan media Pop-up Book. Hasil belajar siswa melalui teknik akademik yaitu skala pencapaian perkembangan harian menunjukkan bahwa perkembangan siswa sesuai dengan harapan dan keaktifan siswa sangat baik. Ini menunjukkan bahwa pengembangan produk media Pop-up Book layak sangat layak dan dapat menarik siswa dalam proses pembelajaran