207 research outputs found
The Meaning of Action in Learning and Teaching
Action is a highly theorised aspect of social life nonetheless it remains a relatively neglected source of data within educational research. This paper attempts to highlight the significance of the analysis of organised action within educational research. It describes and demonstrates an analytical approach to action applicable to the classroom developed from approaches to the analysis of bodily communication and action in drama education (Franks, 1995 & 1996) and from new approaches to rhetoric developed in the research project ‘Rhetorics of the Science Classroom’ funded by the ESRC (Kress, Jewitt, Ogborn & Tsatsarelis, forthcoming). These approaches draw on social semiotic theories of making meaning in order to describe the complex relationship between the semiotics of social action and the situated experience of learning in the classroom. This paper describes how action realises meanings and shapes classroom interaction through the application of the schema to video data from a science lesson on energy with year nine pupils (14 years-old). Finally, it draws attention to the research and pedagogical implications of a focus on action in the science classroom and in education more generally
Collaborative Robots and Tangled Passages of Tactile-Affects
Collaborative robots are increasingly entering industrial contexts and workflows. These contexts are not just locations for production, they are vibrant social and sensory environments. For better or for worse their entry brings potential to reorganize established tactile and affective dynamics that encompass production processes. There is still much to be learned about these highly contextual and complex dynamics in HRI research and the design of industrial robotics; common approaches in industrial collaborative robotics are restricted to evaluating ‘effective interface design’ whereas methods that seek to measure ‘affective touch’ have limited application to these industrial domains. This paper offers an extended analytical framework and methodological approach to deepen understandings of affect and touch beyond emotional responses to direct human-robot interactions. These distinct contributions are grounded in fieldwork in a glass factory with newly installed collaborative robots. They are illustrated through an ethnographic narrative that traces the emergence and circulation of affect, across
material, experiential
and
social
planes. Beyond this single case ‘tangled passages of tactile-affects’ is offered as novel and valuable concept, that is distinct from the notion of ‘affective touch’, and holds potential to generate holistic and nuanced understandings of how human experiences can be affected by the introduction of new robots in ‘the wild’
Sociotechnical imaginaries of remote personal touch before and during COVID-19: An analysis of UK newspapers
This article considers newspapers’ role in shaping the sociotechnical imaginaries of touch, and
emerging technologies that digitally mediate touch. It examines the discourses of touch and
personal relationships at a distance that circulated in major British broadsheet newspapers during
the 2020 outbreak of coronavirus disease-19, alongside dominant narratives of touch and remote
communication in the previous 5 years. In doing so, the article demonstrates how existing
discourses of touch and remote communication intensified during the pandemic, while
imaginations of remote touch narrowed. The sociotechnical imaginaries of digital touch matter
because they illuminate the kinds of social relations touch technologies are perceived to forge,
maintain or deny
School use of learning platforms and associated technologies – case study: secondary school 2
Study of benefits and effective use of learning platforms in schools based on 12 case studie
School use of learning platforms and associated technologies
Study of benefits and effective use of learning platforms in schools based on 12 case studie
School use of learning platforms and associated technologies - case study: primary school 1
Study of benefits and effective use of learning platforms in schools based on 12 case studie
A multimodal framework for computer mediated learning : the reshaping of curriculum knowledge and learning
EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
- …