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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has a great potential for enriching learning experience especially in early childhood education. The need to integrate ICT at preschool level has become greater. The teacher as a mediator influences the use of ICT in teaching and learning. The aim of the research is to investigate teachers' attitudes toward use of ICT and examine whether there are a relationship...
This roundtable proposal deals with the challenges lecturers face when including new course material into an existing module as a result of new developments in the technology or knowledge covered by the module. While the new technologies are gaining ever more grounds, the “old” technology or knowledge still remains important for the students to master, as much of the existing products and research...
The phonation of Tibetan chants was examined using electroglottographic analysis. The supraglottal constriction, which was considered to generate their peculiar phonation qualities, was examined by a comparison with the vocal fold adduction. The results suggest that the frequency of the ventricular fold oscillation was the same as F0, and the closing peak of the ventricular fold adduction occurred...
This paper proposes a playful learning scenario, to enhance children's museum experience, and the design of Micro Culture, a new learning platform. Micro Culture has been developed through a participatory design process, involving around 25 children. The perspective proposed in this paper is focused on enhancing existing storytelling practices, so to provide a more tangible grounding to the communication...
Backpack or school bag weight carried by children has raised concerns in worldwide countries over recent decades. School going children face a major problem because of the heavy weight they carry to school everyday as it leads to many problems such as a bent posture and decreased work efficiency. The prescribed weight to be carried by children has been determined to be 10-15% of their body weight;...
One of the main elements in educational portal is Content Management System (CMS). CMS is a web application technology used for managing contents on websites which easy to be updated by anyone who uses a web form. By using CMS, teachers are authorized to contribute materials for teaching purposes while the students do their experiment to test their understanding of the subject. Problem Statement:...
This paper is about a framework that would promote distance education in the Philippines. Its focus is on the development of reading comprehension among primary elementary school age Filipinos in the remote barrios where access to free education is not available. Modern technology such as mobile or satellite phones, solar power and internet will make this framework work in rural areas. Another important...
This research explains many phenomena in the sports reform through the application of catastrophe theory in the system science. And we think not only contradictory catastrophe but also branching catastrophe take positive promoting function on sports reform, which is under sports curriculum reform this important attractor's function. In a sense, it promotes harmonious development in the reform of sports...
The combination of education and games is an inevitable tendency in the information age. Educational games have injected new power to education, causing various changes. This study focuses on the innovation of teaching content, teaching manners, teacher-student relationship brought forward by educational games, to the end of understanding educational games from a different point of view.
Through the interpretation of the distinctive tunnel effect in physical education curriculum reform, the present paper indicates that it is the tunnel effect in P.E curriculum reform that has promoted the advancement of P.E curriculum. Meanwhile, it analyzes the enlightenment we get from the tunnel effect, i.e. we need to seize the opportunity to reform, reform should be carried out from points to...
With the upsurge of the reform of special education courses, using modern educational technology to enhance the level of classroom teaching deaf students and comprehensive capacity of students, has increasingly become a hot issue in special education field. By a simple analyzing that Moodle based on the open source network teaching platform and the model of deaf group collaborative learning, author...
Around the world, primary and secondary schools are challenged to implement appropriate programs for their gifted and talented students. In this paper, we present how our community's public school system and our college of engineering collaboratively developed and implemented a program on Nanotechnology for a group of forty 9-11 year olds on a completely self-sustaining basis. The program's objectives...
Engineering educators utilize K-12 outreach to encourage students to pursue careers in engineering. Engineering faculty choosing to undertake K-12 outreach often face time consuming administrative duties associated with such activities. Collaboration with outside organizations provides ways to become more involved in K-12 outreach. Non-profit tutoring organizations, arts and community centers, or...
According to Seger (1994), implicit learning is the process of learning complex information without complete verbalisable knowledge of what is learned. Six characteristics of implicit learning have been discussed in this essay. The development and application of information technology in field of foreign language teaching in China can immensely help promote college students' foreign language implicit...
In this paper, first, the meaning, position and key factors of bilingual education and the significances of conducting bilingual education in computer professional courses is talked about. Then based on the practice of the bilingual education being conducted in computer professional courses in Huanggang Normal University, the feasibility, basic teaching form, course arrangement and some problems of...
This study sought to explore the effects of contextual cues and support requirements of multimedia animation on children's English learning. Existing English multimedia animations were divided into two types: rich contextual cues and limited contextual cues. Support requirements for design were also put into two categories: no support requirements vs. support through display of key images before listening...
Go to any symposium, any conference, any trade show having to do with anything technical and what do you hear? Everyone's work load is exploding, with new and exciting research and technical requirements that is calling for hiring more engineers, more scientists. But then you will hear the back end of the discussion, ldquobut we can't find the people.rdquo We have all heard this so many times, so...
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