Finding Your Inner Gamer: Adapting Instruction for Digital Natives

This presentation investigates the rapidly growing appeal of digital gaming among students and what they learn while playing these games. While 65% of college students are gamers, creating digital games for library instruction may not be realistic. Yet by understanding the educational benefits and alluring aspects of video games, librarians can incorporate techniques into instruction that engage students. The presenters will detail the elements that play an important role in player engagement--goals/rules, challenges, control, fantasy--as well as the educational components that can be incorporated into and benefit library instruction. The presenters will also enumerate gamer demographics. One benefit of digital gaming to be explored is parallel processing, which enables gamers to interpret multiple elements at one time. Parallel processing allows them to live at twitch speed. Growing up with digital games and the Internet trains gamers to embrace the deluge of unfiltered information and efficiently interpret multidimensional images. This presentation concludes with suggestions for adapting gaming attributes to instruction. For example, most games require players to be a part of a story in the first person position. Use of this narrative stance in the classroom engages students to be an active player rather than a passive observer. By using innovative text, images, and multimedia, stories will help students comprehend the material by showing the connection between ideas and application

Le harcèlement scolaire provoque-t-il des changements de comportement chez les élèves et que proposent les enseignants pour remédier à ces situations ?

Le harcèlement scolaire est un thème de plus en plus médiatisé. Les chaînes de télévision proposent des reportages, les radios diffusent des émissions, les journaux publient des articles à ce sujet. Tous ont pour but de sensibiliser à cette thématique encore taboue. En tant que futures enseignantes, cela nous a amenées à poser notre question de recherche : Le harcèlement scolaire provoque-t-il des changements de comportement chez les élèves et que proposent les enseignants pour remédier à ces situations ? Pour y répondre, nous avons eu recours à des questionnaires passés auprès de 104 élèves. Ceux-ci fréquentaient 6 classes réparties de la 4H à la 8H1. Nous avons également mené des entretiens avec les 6 enseignants titulaires de ces classes. Il en découle que les élèves victimes de harcèlement montrent des changements de comportement suite aux agressions subies. De plus, nous avons pu récolter, auprès des enseignants, un panel d’interventions visant à stopper le harcèlement détecté dans leur classe. Il est intéressant de relever que les lieux les moins surveillés sont ceux qui favorisent le plus le harcèlement. Un autre élément est la réaction de la victime face à son agresseur. Celle-ci réagira principalement par des pleurs ou de l’énervement. Par nos interviews, nous avons pu constater que la formation initiale des enseignants interviewés n’abordait pas la thématique du harcèlement. De ce fait, il n’est pas aisé pour eux de devoir gérer de telles situations. Malgré cela, les enseignants ont tout de même des pistes pour intervenir et connaissent différentes aides extérieures. Ils peuvent s’adresser par exemple à la Brigade des Mineurs, le psychologue scolaire2, etc. Les résultats obtenus confirment une partie de nos hypothèses et permettent d’amener des éléments de réponse nécessaires à notre question de recherche. Pour les futurs enseignants, ce travail est intéressant puisqu’il met en exergue les caractéristiques du harcèlement, les lieux à surveiller, certaines réactions d’élèves pouvant être interprétées comme des signes de harcèlement, des pistes d’intervention et des aides extérieures

Le Cénozoïque du bassin de Paris : un enregistrement sédimentaire haute résolution des déformations lithosphériques en régime de faible subsidence

International audienceLe bassin de Paris est considéré comme un exemple typique de bassin intracratonique affecté par une subsidence thermique long terme. Le Cénozoïque correspond à une période de faible subsidence (épaisseurs inférieures à 350m) et marque la fin du fonctionnement de ce bassin. C’est en outre une période de forte déformation de la plaque européenne, dans un contexte de convergence Afrique-Eurasie et d’ouverture de l'Atlantique Nord caractérisée par des inversions de grabens dans le Nord et l’Est de l’Europe. Si de nombreux hiatus ont été identifiés, les déformations cénozoïques du bassin de Paris, situées sur une croute à l’équilibre et leur relation aux contraintes en limite de plaque restent méconnues. Cette thèse a pour objectif de recomposer à haute résolution spatiale et temporelle (de l’ordre du million d’années) les géométries sédimentaires 3D et les paléogéographies successives du Paléocène au début de l’Oligocène. Ce travail qui s’appuie sur de nombreuses données biostratigraphiques consiste en une approche couplée de sédimentologie de faciès et de corrélations diagraphiques (500 puits) selon les principes de la stratigraphie séquentielle. Trois ordres de séquences sont définis. Les cycles d’ordre supérieur (4ème et 3ème ordre) enregistrent les variations climato-eustatiques. Cinq séquences de dépôt (2e ordre), limitées par des discontinuités et/ou des réorganisations paléogéographiques sont identifiées : (1) Maastrichtien-Danien ; (2) Thanétien-Yprésien ; (3) Lutétien-Bartonien ; (4) Bartonien-Priabonien terminal et (5) Priabonien terminal-Chattien. Les architectures des séquences (1) à (4) sont contrôlées par des phases de flexures. Après des émersions lors des paroxysmes de flexuration, la relaxation progressive des flexures se traduit tout d’abord par la mise en place de profils pentés et ouverts, puis par des profils de plus en plus plats et confinés associés à une transgression généralisée. Du Thanétien au Bartonien s’observent des flexures d’axe E-W, dont les âges sont compatibles avec les différentes phases de la convergence Ibérie-Eurasie. En outre, une déformation de courte durée à l’Yprésien basal est rattachée à l'ouverture de l'Atlantique Nord. Enfin, une réorientation majeure du bassin possiblement liée au début de la collision Apulie-Eurasie est observée au Priabonien. Ce travail fournit un calage à haute résolution pour la compréhension et la modélisation des déformations intraplaques. Différentes tailles de flexure, de l’ordre de 150 à plus 300 km sont observées traduisant une implication d’épaisseurs plus ou moins importantes de la lithosphère

Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Matrix Imaging

Matrix imaging paves the way towards a next revolution in wave physics. Based on the response matrix recorded between a set of sensors, it enables an optimized compensation of aberration phenomena and multiple scattering events that usually drastically hinder the focusing process in heterogeneous media. Although it gave rise to spectacular results in optical microscopy or seismic imaging, the success of matrix imaging has been so far relatively limited with ultrasonic waves because wave control is generally only performed with a linear array of transducers. In this paper, we extend ultrasound matrix imaging to a 3D geometry. Switching from a 1D to a 2D probe enables a much sharper estimation of the transmission matrix that links each transducer and each medium voxel. Here, we first present an experimental proof of concept on a tissue-mimicking phantom through ex-vivo tissues and then, show the potential of 3D matrix imaging for transcranial applications.Comment: 60 pages, 14 figure

Health Researchers' Use of Social Media: Scoping Review.

BackgroundHealth researchers are increasingly using social media in a professional capacity, and the applications of social media for health researchers are vast. However, there is currently no published evidence synthesis of the ways in which health researchers use social media professionally, and uncertainty remains as to how best to harness its potential.ObjectiveThis scoping review aimed to explore how social media is used by health researchers professionally, as reported in the literature.MethodsThe scoping review methodology guided by Arksey and O'Malley and Levac et al was used. Comprehensive searches based on the concepts of health research and social media were conducted in MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, ERIC, and Web of Science databases, with no limitations applied. Articles were screened at the title and abstract level and at full text by two reviewers. One reviewer extracted data that were analyzed descriptively to map the available evidence.ResultsA total of 8359 articles were screened at the title and abstract level, of which 719 were also assessed at full text for eligibility. The 414 articles identified for inclusion were published in 278 different journals. Studies originated from 31 different countries, with the most prevalent being the United States (52.7% [218/414]). The health discipline of the first authors varied, with medicine (33.3% [138/414]) being the most common. A third of the articles covered health generally, with 61 health-specific topics. Papers used a range of social media platforms (mean 1.33 [SD 0.7]). A quarter of the articles screened reported on social media use for participant recruitment (25.1% [104/414]), followed by practical ways to use social media (15.5% [64/414]), and use of social media for content analysis research (13.3% [55/414]). Articles were categorized as celebratory (ie, opportunities for engagement, 72.2% [299/414]), contingent (ie, opportunities and possible limitations, 22.7% [94/414]) and concerned (ie, potentially harmful, 5.1% [21/414]).ConclusionsHealth researchers are increasingly publishing on their use of social media for a range of professional purposes. Although most of the sentiment around the use of social media in health research was celebratory, the uses of social media varied widely. Future research is needed to support health researchers to optimize their social media use

Provider Staffing Effect on a Decision Aid Intervention

This study examined the association between Nurse Practitioner (NP) and Physician Assistant (PA) staffing in nursing homes and the effect of a decision-aid regarding feeding options in dementia on the frequency of surrogate- provider discussions and on surrogates’ decisional conflict. We compared these outcomes for facilities that had no NP/PAs, part-time only NP/PA staffing, and full-time NP/PA staffing. The sample included 256 surrogate decision-makers from 24 nursing homes. The decision aid was associated with significant increases in discussion rates in facilities with part-time or no NP/PA staffing (26% v. 51%, p <.001 and 13% v. 41%, p < .001, respectively) and decreases in decisional conflict scores (−0.08 v. −.47, p = .008 and −0.30 v. −.0.68, p = .014, respectively). Sites with full-time NP/PA staffing had high baseline rates of discussions (41%). These findings suggest that the decision aid and full-time NP/PA staffing can enhance surrogate decision-making in nursing homes

Deep optoacoustic localization microangiography of ischemic stroke in mice

Super-resolution optoacoustic imaging of microvascular structures deep in mammalian tissues has so far been impeded by strong absorption from densely-packed red blood cells. Here we devised 5 µm biocompatible dichloromethane-based microdroplets exhibiting several orders of magnitude higher optical absorption than red blood cells at near-infrared wavelengths, thus enabling single-particle detection in vivo. We demonstrate non-invasive three-dimensional microangiography of the mouse brain beyond the acoustic diffraction limit (<20 µm resolution). Blood flow velocity quantification in microvascular networks and light fluence mapping was also accomplished. In mice affected by acute ischemic stroke, the multi-parametric multi-scale observations enabled by super-resolution and spectroscopic optoacoustic imaging revealed significant differences in microvascular density, flow and oxygen saturation in ipsi- and contra-lateral brain hemispheres. Given the sensitivity of optoacoustics to functional, metabolic and molecular events in living tissues, the new approach paves the way for non-invasive microscopic observations with unrivaled resolution, contrast and speed

Task Based Learning Approach As An Innovation To Improve Learners' Sport Skill And Engagement

The goal of this study was to see how a Task-based learning strategy with the steps of Pre-task, Task preparation, During task, and Post-task could help learners improve their sports skills and engagement. Twenty students from Bagong Buhay F Integrated School were chosen for this study. To determine the level of learners' sport skills, the said approach and survey were used. The goal of this action research is to see how successful Task-based learning is for students learning physical education, specifically sports abilities. The study uncovered a number of examples of how innovation might aid learners in improving their abilities. With twenty (20) purposely selected learners assessed in an online learning mode under the supervision of the researchers and grade VII teachers, various test and data collection methodologies indicated favorable data on the performance of the aforementioned teaching strategy's implementation. In terms of their degree of athletic skill and involvement, the figures offered by this study in terms of the success it displayed over the learners' development were significant. Furthermore, the outcomes of this study will benefit physical education teachers by providing statistics on resources that may be used to improve students' sports skills and engagement

The MD Anderson Symptom Inventory (MDASI) survey discloses persistent moderate to high-level symptoms in cancer survivors

cancer survivorship care; patient reported outcomeshttps://openworks.mdanderson.org/acif24/1006/thumbnail.jp