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EarSketch lowers the barriers to entry and broadens engagement in computer science through expressive and culturally relevant music composition. In EarSketch, students write computer code to remix sound samples into original music compositions, often within hours of first exposure to the application. Coupled with sound samples rooted in modern music genres, EarSketch generates deep student engagement...
The paper gives the short historical description of the social-cultural development of Siberia - the vast geographical region of the Asian part of Russia. Due to the low population density, severe climate and remoteness from centers of the world civilization Siberia up to the XIX century was the underdeveloped part of Russia in spite of the reach natural resources. Still during the last 200 years...
Education Management Information System (EMIS) provide comprehensive, integrated, relevant, reliable, unambiguous and timely data to education leaders, decisions makers, planners and managers to perform their responsibilities efficiently to achieve the set goals. Computer technology provides technical support to the education management information systems by providing right people with right information...
The sociocultural consequences of feminization of the modern educational space are considered in the article. The author states that the emancipation process, which determines the social and professional activity of women, should be considered not only in positive context but the negative effect connected with the steady growth of femininity dominance should also be taken into account.
This paper proves that Life-long learning and Cultural Education can be supported through the use of technological advances and techniques which so far were extensively used in Games and immersive applications. In order to promote learning, this research proposal focuses on Augmented Reality (AR) and on Gamification for the creation of an educational AR book. The suggested learning subject is Science...
Indigenous knowledge is the basis for many remote, rural, and marginalized communities in society and as such, is an important component in the educational development of members within these communities. Due to many reasons, including colonization, a lack of understanding by hegemonic societies, and disparate knowledge systems (for example, orally based), there is a risk of this knowledge disappearing...
Indigenous knowledge is the basis for many remote, rural, and marginalized communities in society and as such, is an important component in the educational development of members within these communities. Due to many reasons, including colonization and a lack of understanding by hegemonic societies, there is a risk of this knowledge disappearing from many communities. Additionally, many of these communities...
Based on the theory of holistic regionalism which encourages architectural design to integrate with the specialties of regional natural and cultural environment as well as the local intelligence on technic and art, the project was studied in terms of nature,culture and technology. The target of this study was to discuss how Canadian B+H architects dealed with the relationship between the contemporary...
The objective of English Language Teaching (ELT) in China has transformed from reading competence as a focus to communicative competence as a goal. However, traditional teaching mode hinders the development of students' communicative competence. This paper, from the perspective of Communicative Approach, intends to provide some concrete methods and techniques in classroom teaching.
This document is part of a research done from Master Science in Telecommunications Engineering program of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, that links three strategies for interconnection which aim is to rescue the culture in the country from the schools. The current document shows a development model to be incorporated in Colombian education and describes three fundamental axes for its implementation...
Our society is an information society in which information and communication technology (ICT) is coming closer and closer to people who are not experts in information and communication technology, but on the base of general education they are daily using it. By using global communication systems the borders are not anymore important and people are changing continents, countries, regions, cultures...
Based on the study in the field of entrepreneurial environment factors abroad and at home, this article researched the interrelationship between entrepreneurial environment factors and key factors of entrepreneurial environment. Firstly, the article used interpretative structural model to construct the adjacency matrix about the factors, then shaped the hierarchy ISM of entrepreneurial environment...
Adaptive Web technologies are often used in distance learning scenarios with little regard for learnerspsila cultural background. The CAE questionnaire determines the cultural artefacts that influence a learners behaviour within an educational environment. This paper presents the CAE-L cultural ontology along with an analysis of three countries (China, Ireland and UK). This ontology is instantiated...
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