This document discusses the use of tablets in schools and proposes developing a taxonomy for their use. It provides background on tablets in education, noting over 1.5 million iPad devices and 20,000 apps being used in US schools. It also outlines prerequisites for teaching with tablets, including necessary hardware, software, and guidelines. The document proposes a taxonomy that categorizes tablet applications and activities according to educational objectives and concepts.
A Tablet Research: Changes in Teachers’ General Digital Competences and Mobil...Balázs Czékmán
The emerge of the mobile technologies in education is confirmed by both international (Clarke et al., 2014; Fabian–Maclean, 2013; Marés, 2012) and Hungarian researches (Abonyi-Toth – Turcsanyi-Szabo, 2015; Kis-Toth – Borbas – Karpati, 2014; Racsko – Herzog, 2015). Accordingly more and more tablets – which supports one-to-one (1:1) computing – can be found in Hungarian schools thanks to initiatives of different multinational companies and governmental IT tenders (see KK Szakmai Tanévnyitó, 2018). It is no use of mentioning that teachers have a key role in the application of mobile technology and tablets. As ChanLin (2017) mentions, the teachers’ pedagogical and technological knowledge and attitude of tablet usage is a dynamic process which is influenced by many conditions. The emerge of tablets in education will be mainly based on the teachers’ experiences whether they see advantages of the devices or not (Churchill, Fox & King, 2012).
Our research took place in one of the school districts of Budapest (Hungary), where we measured the general digital competences and the mobile-usage competences of the teachers (N=29, nine primary schools) with DigComp framework and with our self-developed online questionnaire. In the research PPC research design was used with an experimental (tablet-user) group and a control (non-tablet-user) group. We hypothesized that after the four-month-long research period both (H1) the general digital competences and also (H2) the mobile-usage competences of the teachers would change. After processing the data, the results are the following: in the case of teachers’ general digital competences we did not find any statistically significant changes between the results of the pre-test and post-test. However, we found positive changes in the mobile-usage competence but only within the experimental group. Paired t-test shows development in “general device usage” (M: from 3,41 to 3,84; t(17)=-2,45, p=0,025), „file and folder management” (M: from 3,1to 3,57; t(17)=-3,3, p=0,004), „multimedia” (M: from 2,48 to 2,95; t(17)=-3,4, p=0,003), together with „educational usage” (M: from 1,62 to 1,83; t(17)=-3,43, p=0,03).
Designing and Developing Mobile Learning Applications in International Studen...eLearning Papers
This paper reports on an international collaboration in which students from different universities designed and developed mobile learning applications, working together in interdisciplinary teams using social and mobile media. We describe the concept, process and outcomes of this collaboration including challenges of designing and developing mobile learning applications in virtual teams.
Italy roberto manca_to_the_search_of_the_blue_gold_from_windows_xp_to_windows...ITIS M.GIUA CA
The project goal is to train technicians trained in the schools who can install and configure the new Microsoft Operating Systems from an advanced point of view of the Power Management and Virtualization Client and Sever , reducing hardware and electronic waste WEEE , decreasing the pollution of lakes , rivers and spring water " blue gold " for the benefit of the Environment
M-portfolios: Using Mobile Technology to Document Learning in Student Teacher...eLearning Papers
We briefly analyse the enhancement of eportfolio processes defined by Zubizarreta (2009) with the introduction of mobile technology. We give some examples of appropriation of mobile device usage in eportfolio processes carried out by student teachers. These examples become the evidence of the enhancement possibilities of one of the portfolio processes defined by Zubizarreta (2009), that of documentation.
A Tablet Research: Changes in Teachers’ General Digital Competences and Mobil...Balázs Czékmán
The emerge of the mobile technologies in education is confirmed by both international (Clarke et al., 2014; Fabian–Maclean, 2013; Marés, 2012) and Hungarian researches (Abonyi-Toth – Turcsanyi-Szabo, 2015; Kis-Toth – Borbas – Karpati, 2014; Racsko – Herzog, 2015). Accordingly more and more tablets – which supports one-to-one (1:1) computing – can be found in Hungarian schools thanks to initiatives of different multinational companies and governmental IT tenders (see KK Szakmai Tanévnyitó, 2018). It is no use of mentioning that teachers have a key role in the application of mobile technology and tablets. As ChanLin (2017) mentions, the teachers’ pedagogical and technological knowledge and attitude of tablet usage is a dynamic process which is influenced by many conditions. The emerge of tablets in education will be mainly based on the teachers’ experiences whether they see advantages of the devices or not (Churchill, Fox & King, 2012).
Our research took place in one of the school districts of Budapest (Hungary), where we measured the general digital competences and the mobile-usage competences of the teachers (N=29, nine primary schools) with DigComp framework and with our self-developed online questionnaire. In the research PPC research design was used with an experimental (tablet-user) group and a control (non-tablet-user) group. We hypothesized that after the four-month-long research period both (H1) the general digital competences and also (H2) the mobile-usage competences of the teachers would change. After processing the data, the results are the following: in the case of teachers’ general digital competences we did not find any statistically significant changes between the results of the pre-test and post-test. However, we found positive changes in the mobile-usage competence but only within the experimental group. Paired t-test shows development in “general device usage” (M: from 3,41 to 3,84; t(17)=-2,45, p=0,025), „file and folder management” (M: from 3,1to 3,57; t(17)=-3,3, p=0,004), „multimedia” (M: from 2,48 to 2,95; t(17)=-3,4, p=0,003), together with „educational usage” (M: from 1,62 to 1,83; t(17)=-3,43, p=0,03).
Designing and Developing Mobile Learning Applications in International Studen...eLearning Papers
This paper reports on an international collaboration in which students from different universities designed and developed mobile learning applications, working together in interdisciplinary teams using social and mobile media. We describe the concept, process and outcomes of this collaboration including challenges of designing and developing mobile learning applications in virtual teams.
Italy roberto manca_to_the_search_of_the_blue_gold_from_windows_xp_to_windows...ITIS M.GIUA CA
The project goal is to train technicians trained in the schools who can install and configure the new Microsoft Operating Systems from an advanced point of view of the Power Management and Virtualization Client and Sever , reducing hardware and electronic waste WEEE , decreasing the pollution of lakes , rivers and spring water " blue gold " for the benefit of the Environment
M-portfolios: Using Mobile Technology to Document Learning in Student Teacher...eLearning Papers
We briefly analyse the enhancement of eportfolio processes defined by Zubizarreta (2009) with the introduction of mobile technology. We give some examples of appropriation of mobile device usage in eportfolio processes carried out by student teachers. These examples become the evidence of the enhancement possibilities of one of the portfolio processes defined by Zubizarreta (2009), that of documentation.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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A Development of a Taxonomy for
the Use of Tablets in Schools
Sabrina S. Huber
Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Martin Ebner
Tablets in Schools Graz, 21.6.2012
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Content
Motivation
Media didactics
iPads in schools (state of the art)
Prerequisites for teaching
Austrian curriculum for foreign languages
iPad Human Interface Guidelines (HIG)
Future perspectives
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Motivation
Changes in the school sector
Tablets: trendsetter Apple’s iPad
> 1.5 million devices in the educational sector
(US)
> 20.000 educational applications
Overview of the didactical integration of tablets
Evaluation of learning apps
Human Interface Guidelines
Tablets in Schools Graz, 21.6.2012
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Media Didactics
Media Pedagogy
Media Media Media
Didactics Education Research
Holzinger (2011)
Media are tools to achieve subject-specific objectives
Tulodziecki (1997)
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New Media
Interactive lessons
Market place:
determined by
technology
Tablets in Schools Graz, 21.6.2012
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Current Situation
School blogs
iPad enhances collaboration and interaction among
students
Motivation fades
Teacher = coach
Self-paced learning
Digital schoolbooks
some teachers create their own
High commitment of teachers
Tablets in Schools Graz, 21.6.2012
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Background of Students
’Praxishauptschule - Neue Mittelschule (NMS) der
Pädagogischen Hochschule Steiermark’
48 students (1st and 3rd grade)
20 English lessons
two-thirds used or tried out touch screens
Tablets in Schools Graz, 21.6.2012
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Use of Media
Parallels to JIM study (Jugend, Information, Multimedia) of 2011
Tablets in Schools Graz, 21.6.2012
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Prerequisites for Teaching
Hardware
Projector and Canvas
Earplugs
VGA Adapter
Smart Cover
Loudspeakers
Suitcases
NoteSync
Wi-Fi Router
Apple TV and
High-Definition
Multimedia Interface
(HDMI) Projector
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Prerequisites for Teaching
Software
Dropbox
Pages
Keynote
Microphone + Recording
neu.Annotate+ PDF
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Austrian Curriculum for Foreign
Languages (Lower Grade)
Communicative Competence
Educational Objectives
and
Teaching Tasks
Acquisition of Learning Strategies
Tablets in Schools Graz, 21.6.2012
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Austrian Curriculum for Foreign
Languages (Lower Grade)
Communicative Competence
Educational Objectives
and
Teaching Tasks
Acquisition of Learning Strategies
Tablets in Schools Graz, 21.6.2012
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Total Recall
Tablets in Schools Graz, 21.6.2012
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Austrian Curriculum for Foreign Languages
(Lower Grade)
cultural diversity, perceptions,
Individual, Society, Culture judgements
Contributions to
the
Nature and Technology
Educational Field
Creativity and Design
Tablets in Schools Graz, 21.6.2012
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Austrian Curriculum for Foreign Languages
(Lower Grade)
cultural diversity, perceptions,
Individual and Society judgments
Contributions to
the
Nature and Technology
Educational Field
Creativity and Design
Tablets in Schools Graz, 21.6.2012
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Austrian Curriculum for Foreign Languages
(Lower Grade)
cultural diversity, perceptions,
Individual and Society judgments
Contributions to
the
Nature and Technology
Educational Field
Creativity and Design
Tablets in Schools Graz, 21.6.2012
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Collection of students’
Inclusion of the Students’ work in a web-based file
Individual Progress
hosting service
Dealing with Teaching
Materials and Learning Aids
Didactical Basic
Concepts
Diverse Communication Topics: everyday situations
Situations and Subject Areas (requested in the CEFR)
Promotion of Authentic
Encounters
Tablets in Schools Graz, 21.6.2012
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Collection of students’
Inclusion of the Students’ work in a web-based file
Individual Progress
hosting service
Dealing with Teaching
Materials and Learning Aids
Didactical Basic
Concepts
Diverse Communication Topics: everyday situations
Situations and Subject Areas (requested in the CEFR)
Promotion of Authentic
Encounters
Tablets in Schools Graz, 21.6.2012
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Collection of students’
Inclusion of the Students’ work in a web-based file
Individual Progress
hosting service
Dealing with Teaching
Materials and Learning Aids
Didactical Basic
Concepts
Diverse Communication Topics: everyday situations
Situations and Subject Areas (requested in the CEFR)
Promotion of Authentic
Encounters
Tablets in Schools Graz, 21.6.2012
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Collection of students’
Inclusion of the Students’ work in a web-based file
Individual Progress
hosting service
Dealing with Teaching
Materials and Learning Aids
Didactical Basic
Concepts
Diverse Communication Topics: everyday situations
Situations and Subject Areas (requested in the CEFR)
Promotion of Authentic
Encounters
Tablets in Schools Graz, 21.6.2012
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Aim to Support All Orientations
Flatten Your Information
Hierarchy
Multi-touch Gestures
File-Handling
Keyboard
Aesthetic Integrity
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Problem Situations
Slower Written Production
Slower Correction of Written Production
Storage
Distractions by Games
LanSchool
Lack of Apps
Example of a student‘s handwriting (without a pen)
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Problem Situations
Language Barriers
Teacher Training and Redefinition of
Approaches
No Flash Support
Hardly Any Interfaces
Tablets in Schools Graz, 21.6.2012
31. Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media
A Development of a Taxonomy for
the Use of Tablets in Schools
Sabrina S. Huber
Tablets in Schools Graz, 21.6.2012