The use of paper in everyday student life

The information we encounter in modern life, in developed countries, is a hybrid of the physical and the digital. Personal archiving tools allow users to capture and retrieve aspects of their everyday lives in digital form. In this paper we use a diary study of students’ interactions with paper-based information to inform the design of such archiving tools

An international survey of mature students' uses of mobile devices in life and learning

The paper presents research concerned with learner-driven innovative practice with mobile technologies and the interface between formal and informal learning. We build on our previous work investigating student use of personal devices for learning, work, social interaction and entertainment. A recent phase of the research included an international survey focusing on students registered on selected Masters and doctoral programmes in the UK, Sweden, Portugal, Hong Kong and Australia. The research gives an account of everyday uses and more unusual deployments of personal technologies by students from departments of education and technology. It illuminates learner choices and preferences, attitudes towards work–life boundaries, evolving social and cultural practices, and the impacts of technological change

University library as a living lab: innovating with students

Ubiquitous and pervasive technologies are part of everyday life, including the portion of it that has something to do with the university libraries: all students use personal mobile technology and all books have embedded sensors. This paper describes three years long experience with student-lead innovation of student-oriented university library services. Stu-dents, as library users themselves, have a potential to initiate changes in the existing practices, or offer novel technological solutions based on ubiquitous and pervasive technologies that are easy to adopt and use for this user group. Within the project described in the paper, the library was established as a living lab for a student-lead innovation. At this stage, the innovators are recruited among interaction design students. The approach shows very promising results, some of which are showcased in the paper

Outside the Box: An Information Literacy Course Web2.0 Project

Outside The Box: An Information Literacy Course Web2.0 Project At Georgia Southwestern State University, “Foundations of Information Literacy” is an Area B course to fulfill core requirements. The one hour course is theoretical and practical in content and offers students information beyond the “traditional” information literacy course descriptions. A theme of the course is the impact of information on the life of the college student. For the final project, students are required to use a Web2.0 tool to illustrate how information influences their everyday life. Discussions include how information is obtained, used, disseminated, and evaluated. Students develop the presentation and write a one page reflection paper about the project. For some students the idea of not writing a research paper is daunting and overwhelming because it is something new and different. Informal feedback and evaluations show students enjoy the opportunity to express knowledge, learning, and information competency in a creative manner. Not only do they explore information and its impact on their lives, they use technology to present the information in a creative manner

Cause and Effect of using Digital Content in Biology Subject at Grade IX-X in Dhaka City

Information and communication technologies ICT have become everyday entities in all spheres of life ICT has fundamentally changed the pedagogy in education lend itself to more student-centred learning phenomena hereafter digital content an ubiquitous part of ICT is becoming more and more important The purpose of the present paper is to examine the relationship between the use of digital content and students performance and to give complementary explanations regarding causes and effects of using digital content in secondary education especially in biology subject This study followed mixed method design including qualitative and quantitative data The result of the study revealed that student s performance is mainly explained by student s characteristics educational environment and teachers characteristics and digital content have a concrete impact on these determining factors and consequently the outcome of education The adoption of ICT equipment and use rates is relatively slow and differs from one institution to another Henceforth use of computer supportive instructional material need a change in the organisation of secondary education Government or PPP or school authority can take benign initiative to provide low-cost laptop multimedia projector Furthermore continuous in-servicing training should be provided among teachers to ensure digitalized classroom and effective teaching-learning proces

A Mathematical Analysis of Student-Generated Sorting Algorithms

Sorting is a process we encounter very often in everyday life. Additionally it is a fundamental operation in computer science. Having been one of the first intensely studied problems in computer science, many different sorting algorithms have been developed and analyzed. Although algorithms are often taught as part of the computer science curriculum in the context of a programming language, the study of algorithms and algorithmic thinking, including the design, construction and analysis of algorithms, has pedagogical value in mathematics education. This paper will provide an introduction to computational complexity and efficiency, without the use of a programming language. It will also describe how these concepts can be incorporated into the existing high school or undergraduate mathematics curriculum through a mathematical analysis of student-generated sorting algorithms

An Ethnographic Approach to the Initial Professional Education of Teachers

Educational ethnography has become part of the research tradition of both sociology and anthropology, that is, research on and in educational institutions based on participant observation and/or permanent recordings of everyday life in naturally-occurring settings (Delamont & Atkinson, 1980). While most graduate students of education will today be familiar with ethnographic research, this paper outlines a way in which first year students can also make creative use of some aspects of this approach. During their professional education, pre-service teachers are expected to make the transition from the status of student to that of teacher. For some this is an abrupt and difficult process, while for others it is painless. All pre-service teachers are expected to acquire a professional identity and it is within this process that ethnography can make an important contribution

Undergraduate Students\u27 Information Literacy Behaviour in Chulalongkorn University

This paper examines the ways in which Thai undergraduate students in Chulalongkorn University find, evaluate, manage, and apply the needed information for doing their course-related assignments and everyday life research. The information literacy behaviour studied includes the undergraduates’ use of information resources, evaluation of information, research styles, and difficulties encountered during research practices. The survey instrument originally developed by Project Information Literacy of the University of Washington Information School was used as the basis for designing a questionnaire of this study. The questionnaire, then, was distributed to sophomores, juniors, and seniors enrolling at Chulalongkorn University. The sample for the student survey was 378 respondents from 18 faculties. Data collection was completed by the end of March 2011. Overall a 95% response rate was achieved. The findings of this study indicate that the most frequent source of information the majority of the undergraduates used for their course-related assignments and everyday life research is search engines. Most undergraduates always pay attention to credibility of library materials and web content when evaluating information in hand. Regarding the survey respondents’ research styles, they usually make action plans and create search terms before writing term-papers. They also have problems with deciding what to do at the early stage of research process, narrowing down a topic, and determining credibility of information resources

Projekt LifeLab prehrana in zdravje – inovativno poučevanje za prihodnost: razvoj aktivnih učnih nalog za učence pri pouku gospodinjstva v 21. stoletju

Food and Health, previously referred to as Home Economics, is a mandatory school subject in Norway. It has the unique advantage of giving all students, regardless of their social background, practical skills and knowledge, life skills that are important for their future health. In the LifeLab Food and Health project, we have developed a research-based and innovative teaching programme and evaluated how it is perceived in a school setting in Norway. This teaching programme is for use in Food and Health teacher education, but also in the education of primary and lower secondary school students in the same subject. LifeLab Food and Health consists of learning tasks in which students in the sixth and ninth grades in school gain first-hand knowledge and an understanding of life skills that are important to manage everyday life. In this paper, we present the learning activities developed and how the students experienced them. Examples of such learning tasks are tasks revealing the science behind dietary guidelines and the promotion of a healthy diet through student active tasks. Our aim is to establish LifeLab Food and Health as a “best practice” within master’s education in Home Economics at the University of Agder in Norway. (DIPF/Orig.