The document discusses the lack of numerical literacy skills among law students and legal professionals. It notes that numerical literacy is an important real-world skill not adequately addressed in legal education. The author proposes developing a 6-week online course (MOOC) to help law students improve their numerical literacy. The MOOC would incorporate math tuition and cognitive behavioral therapy to help overcome math anxiety and avoidance, and would be made freely available as an ongoing online resource for law schools and potentially legal professionals.
Strijker & Fisser (2019 06-27) A future-proof curriculum with digital literacySaxion
In November 2014, the State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands officially launched an online country-wide consultation about the future of Dutch education. Based on the outcomes and the ongoing debate, the Netherlands started the development of a new curriculum framework for primary and secondary education in 2018. One of the new themes in this curriculum is Digital Literacy, which is defined as a combination of ICT skills, media literacy, information literacy and computational thinking. Together with the other subjects (Dutch, Arithmetic/mathematics, English/modern foreign languages, Citizenship, Exercise & Sport, Art & Culture, Human & Nature, Human & Society) Digital Literacy will be part of the design of the new curriculum. A teacher design team for Digital Literacy developed a vision and elaborated this in eight so-called big ideas. Based on the big ideas learning trajectories were designed. These learning trajectories describe what students should learn in primary and secondary education.
Information literacy, from higher education to employmentInformAll
A presentation at the European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL2014), by the InformAll initiative, on how information literacy - the know-how, skills and competencies needed to handle information, whatever form this takes - might be made more relevant to individuals and organisations at the interface between higher education and employment.
Strijker & Fisser (2019 06-27) A future-proof curriculum with digital literacySaxion
In November 2014, the State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands officially launched an online country-wide consultation about the future of Dutch education. Based on the outcomes and the ongoing debate, the Netherlands started the development of a new curriculum framework for primary and secondary education in 2018. One of the new themes in this curriculum is Digital Literacy, which is defined as a combination of ICT skills, media literacy, information literacy and computational thinking. Together with the other subjects (Dutch, Arithmetic/mathematics, English/modern foreign languages, Citizenship, Exercise & Sport, Art & Culture, Human & Nature, Human & Society) Digital Literacy will be part of the design of the new curriculum. A teacher design team for Digital Literacy developed a vision and elaborated this in eight so-called big ideas. Based on the big ideas learning trajectories were designed. These learning trajectories describe what students should learn in primary and secondary education.
Information literacy, from higher education to employmentInformAll
A presentation at the European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL2014), by the InformAll initiative, on how information literacy - the know-how, skills and competencies needed to handle information, whatever form this takes - might be made more relevant to individuals and organisations at the interface between higher education and employment.
Citizen Maths is a free online maths course, aimed at adults in or out of work, who want to brush up their maths. The presentation covers some of the thinking behind the course and how employers, further education colleges and other adult education organisations can get involved.
Overview of Digital Citizenship, adapted from the LISD Moodle site: http://moodleweb2.lisd.net/schoolweb/course/view.php?id=3912&edit=0&sesskey=j3EItp97YW
ELH School Tech 2013 - Computational ThinkingPaul Herring
To be good ‘Computational Thinkers’ and hence effective users of, and more importantly empowered creators with Digital Technologies, students need to be conversant and articulate with:
algorithms;
cryptography;
machine intelligence;
computational biology;
search;
recursion;
heuristics;
Entrepreneurial enabling, and
The use of Digital Technologies to develop and support Critical Thinking skills.
While schools have taught many of these areas in the past, opportunities are now being presented where schools can fully embrace those areas traditionally part of a Computer Science type course, but also introduce the fascinating new areas of endeavor such as cryptography and computational biology.
Coupled with the increasing enabling of application development and deployment by Senior School students, such as in the creation and deployment of mobile games using Corona and Lua for example, students are able to be powerfully enabled as creative producers, not just passive users.
The presentation will give an overview of these areas of Computational Thinking and some outline of how they might be implemented in the curriculum, including current examples from senior IT classes in Queensland who are creating digital apps for Android devices.
This presentation will cover some of the ground from my ACEC 2012 talk on this topic (see SlideCast at this link: http://www.slideshare.net/StrategicITbyPFH/computational-thinking-14629222), but expand in a number of areas, in particular some specific suggestions regarding classroom implementation.
The purpose of our paper is to share the experiences of DCPL’s pilot digital skills project, based in inner city Dublin, and to show that it is possible to establish a digital skills project which is consciously inclusive and can accommodate children and young people with differing learning abilities as well as different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds.
The national strategy Our Public Libraries 2022 emphasises the role that libraries can play in bridging the digital divide in Ireland. Libraries are ideally placed to deliver the necessary digital skills and to access the technology that is imperative for participation in the digital society.
In terms of the outreach activities, we identified the CoderDojo model as being the most suitable method of delivering digital skills to a diverse group on an on-going basis. We work with DEIS schools and community groups, such as those who work with children in direct provision, to recruit participants for whom the experience would be most beneficial and empowering. By providing a familiar space within the area, the aim is to make digital learning accessible and welcoming.
We consciously cultivate a family-friendly environment for our Saturday “Dojo”, encouraging accompanying parents to make use of the library’s facilities and bring along younger siblings. For our mid-week, “Teen Dojo”, teens are introduced to project-based work, where outputs include tangible results, which keep teens engaged as what is being learned has ‘real world’ applications.
Our experience with respect to the learning approaches used and the communities’ reception to the providing of digital learning opportunities to children in areas with diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds has multiple implications, including what value can be found in self-directed learning with this particular cohort and what benefits that exposing these children to the skills necessary for the future of work can be had.
Systematic Review And Environmental Scan On Adaptive Technology And OER On St...Tanya Joosten
FEATURED SESSION
Systematic Review And Environmental Scan On Adaptive Technology And OER On Student Success
Date: Wednesday, November 18th
Time: 8:30 AM to 9:15 AM
Conference Session: Concurrent Session 1
Session Modality: Virtual
Lead Presenter: Tanya Joosten (National Research Center for Distance Education and Technological Advancements (DETA) and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Co-presenters: Justin Dellinger (University of Texas at Arlington), Kate Lee-McCarthy (The Online Learning Consortium (OLC))
Track: Research, Evaluation, and Learning Analytics
Location: Zoom Room 1
Session Duration: 45min
Brief Abstract:
Come join the Every Learner Everywhere network partners, National Research Center for Distance Education and Technological Advancements (DETA), the Online Learning Consortium (OLC), and dLRN discuss process, findings and recommendations from an empirical research study completed in adaptive technology and OER. Incredibly popular digital tools in online learning, how much do we know about their impact on students? Learn about a step we’ve taken to organize research in response to the various Every Learner Everywhere studies, and better understand where the field needs to go for future development of these technologies for future alignment with research and student success.
Citizen Maths is a free online maths course, aimed at adults in or out of work, who want to brush up their maths. The presentation covers some of the thinking behind the course and how employers, further education colleges and other adult education organisations can get involved.
Overview of Digital Citizenship, adapted from the LISD Moodle site: http://moodleweb2.lisd.net/schoolweb/course/view.php?id=3912&edit=0&sesskey=j3EItp97YW
ELH School Tech 2013 - Computational ThinkingPaul Herring
To be good ‘Computational Thinkers’ and hence effective users of, and more importantly empowered creators with Digital Technologies, students need to be conversant and articulate with:
algorithms;
cryptography;
machine intelligence;
computational biology;
search;
recursion;
heuristics;
Entrepreneurial enabling, and
The use of Digital Technologies to develop and support Critical Thinking skills.
While schools have taught many of these areas in the past, opportunities are now being presented where schools can fully embrace those areas traditionally part of a Computer Science type course, but also introduce the fascinating new areas of endeavor such as cryptography and computational biology.
Coupled with the increasing enabling of application development and deployment by Senior School students, such as in the creation and deployment of mobile games using Corona and Lua for example, students are able to be powerfully enabled as creative producers, not just passive users.
The presentation will give an overview of these areas of Computational Thinking and some outline of how they might be implemented in the curriculum, including current examples from senior IT classes in Queensland who are creating digital apps for Android devices.
This presentation will cover some of the ground from my ACEC 2012 talk on this topic (see SlideCast at this link: http://www.slideshare.net/StrategicITbyPFH/computational-thinking-14629222), but expand in a number of areas, in particular some specific suggestions regarding classroom implementation.
The purpose of our paper is to share the experiences of DCPL’s pilot digital skills project, based in inner city Dublin, and to show that it is possible to establish a digital skills project which is consciously inclusive and can accommodate children and young people with differing learning abilities as well as different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds.
The national strategy Our Public Libraries 2022 emphasises the role that libraries can play in bridging the digital divide in Ireland. Libraries are ideally placed to deliver the necessary digital skills and to access the technology that is imperative for participation in the digital society.
In terms of the outreach activities, we identified the CoderDojo model as being the most suitable method of delivering digital skills to a diverse group on an on-going basis. We work with DEIS schools and community groups, such as those who work with children in direct provision, to recruit participants for whom the experience would be most beneficial and empowering. By providing a familiar space within the area, the aim is to make digital learning accessible and welcoming.
We consciously cultivate a family-friendly environment for our Saturday “Dojo”, encouraging accompanying parents to make use of the library’s facilities and bring along younger siblings. For our mid-week, “Teen Dojo”, teens are introduced to project-based work, where outputs include tangible results, which keep teens engaged as what is being learned has ‘real world’ applications.
Our experience with respect to the learning approaches used and the communities’ reception to the providing of digital learning opportunities to children in areas with diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds has multiple implications, including what value can be found in self-directed learning with this particular cohort and what benefits that exposing these children to the skills necessary for the future of work can be had.
Systematic Review And Environmental Scan On Adaptive Technology And OER On St...Tanya Joosten
FEATURED SESSION
Systematic Review And Environmental Scan On Adaptive Technology And OER On Student Success
Date: Wednesday, November 18th
Time: 8:30 AM to 9:15 AM
Conference Session: Concurrent Session 1
Session Modality: Virtual
Lead Presenter: Tanya Joosten (National Research Center for Distance Education and Technological Advancements (DETA) and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Co-presenters: Justin Dellinger (University of Texas at Arlington), Kate Lee-McCarthy (The Online Learning Consortium (OLC))
Track: Research, Evaluation, and Learning Analytics
Location: Zoom Room 1
Session Duration: 45min
Brief Abstract:
Come join the Every Learner Everywhere network partners, National Research Center for Distance Education and Technological Advancements (DETA), the Online Learning Consortium (OLC), and dLRN discuss process, findings and recommendations from an empirical research study completed in adaptive technology and OER. Incredibly popular digital tools in online learning, how much do we know about their impact on students? Learn about a step we’ve taken to organize research in response to the various Every Learner Everywhere studies, and better understand where the field needs to go for future development of these technologies for future alignment with research and student success.
SLSA 2013 - Using vps to identify vulnerable and intimidated victimsLouise Taylor
PowerPoint slides from my conference paper delivered with Jo Boylan-Kemp at the Criminal Law and Criminal Justice stream of the SLSA Annual Conference 2013.
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.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter 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.
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.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
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.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
1. MOOCing the way to numerical literacy in
law.
Louise Taylor, Nottingham Trent University
Louise.Taylor@ntu.ac.uk
10th
April 2014
2. What is numerical literacy and why is it
missing in legal learning and practice?
• “...an individual’s capacity to identify and understand the role that
mathematics plays in the world, to make well-founded judgements
and to use and engage with mathematics in ways that meet the
needs of that individual’s life as a constructive, concerned and
reflective citizen.”
nationalnumeracy.org.uk
• Lack of numeracy skills.
• Maths anxiety.
• Maths avoidance.
3. Lack of numeracy skills in the general
population.
•“Unlike the stories, mythologies, and gossip that have
been shaping our minds since the beginning of human
culture, public statistics are a recent cultural
achievement.”
Gerd Gigerenzer, 2002.
4. Lack of numeracy skills learning and
teaching on the LLB.
• Numerical literacy at admission:
–2012/13 NLS cohort = 284 students; 69 with no data; 34
with a maths qualification beyond GCSE.
• QAA numeracy requirement for QLD – only nominally met.
• Pervasive culture of maths anxiety and avoidance within
undergraduate legal education prevents continuing numerical
skill development.
5. Maths anxiety.
•“Mathematics anxiety is characterized by feelings of tension,
apprehension, and fear about performing math and is
associated with delayed acquisition of core math and
number concepts and poor math competence.”
Richardson and Suinn, 1972.
6. Maths avoidance.
• “I know for me, I’m a lawyer because I was bad at science
and math. All lawyers in the room, you know it’s true. We
can’t add and subtract, so we argue.”
Michelle Obama, 2011.
7. Impact on legal practice.
• LETR identified commercial awareness (incorporating
numeracy) as an area of deficiency in legal professional
knowledge. LETR 2013: 2.74-5.
• Impact on legal reasoning:
– “Too often our discomfort with numbers means that we fail to
challenge, or even recognize, the subjective assessments made in
the compilation and presentation of numerical information.”
Milot 2013.
– “…substantive legal analysis can vary significantly with the
numeracy of legal decision makers.”
Rowell and Bregant 2013.
8. The challenge:
• To improve numerical literacy in law.
• To tackle maths anxiety.
• To challenge maths avoidance strategies.
• To spark a cultural revolution within the student cohort, the
academy and the profession.
• To avoid detracting from the substantive undergraduate law
subjects.
9. The solution? MOOCing the way
to numerical literacy in law:
• 6 week MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) aimed at NQF level 4
law students.
• Incorporating maths tuition and cognitive behavioural therapy
within an online virtual legal environment.
• Retained as an open-access online resource.
• Available for adoption and adaptation for use by other law schools
and within other disciplines.
• With potential for development as a resource aimed at legal
professionals.
10. The solution? MOOCing the way
to numerical literacy in law:
• 6 week MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) aimed at NQF level 4
law students.
• Incorporating maths tuition and cognitive behavioural therapy
within an online virtual legal environment.
• Retained as an open-access online resource.
• Available for adoption and adaptation for use by other law schools
and within other disciplines.
• With potential for development as a resource aimed at legal
professionals.
Editor's Notes
My aim today is to give you a brief overview of the provisions of the EU Directive as they relate to victims with specific protection needs. But also to demonstrate that the EU Dir improves access to justice for such victims, not only by making the criminal proceeding more accessible and less traumatic, but also by providing an avenue in which to access civil justice when standards of service for such victims have not been adequately met by the state.
Buckley:
“Perhaps one of the reasons that maths anxiety is such a common feeling in the community is that it is acceptable to show anxiety in this area. Even though the link between maths ability and general intelligence is widely endorsed, admitting to personal difficulties with maths, a lack of interest in maths or worry over maths is socially acceptable and considered the norm. On the other hand, if a student admits that they like maths and are good at it that student will often be labelled a ‘nerd’. This contradiction reflects a culture that facilitates the development of maths anxiety in students.”
QAA subject benchmark statement for law includes requirement that students are given an opportunity within the QLD to demonstrate numeracy.
Lyons I. M., and Beilock S. L., (2012). Mathematics Anxiety:
Separating the Math from the Anxiety, 22 Cerebral Cortex 2102-2110.
Ashcraft, M. H., (2002). Math Anxiety: Personal, Educational and
Cognitive Consequences, 11(5) Current Directions in Psychological
Science 181-185.
Lyons and Beilock used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the brain during experiments with maths anxious individuals and non-maths anxious control group and found neurological evidence of anxiety negatively impacting on maths performance prior to completion of a maths task, when students were anticipating the maths task ahead of them. Researchers from this study concluded that it is not the skill level of the maths anxious individual that leads to performance drops but rather their ability to manage their anxiety at this anticipatory stage and devote their attention to a task.
Buckley:
“The other long-term impact of maths anxiety is the development of a negative attitude towards the subject. Anxious individuals will avoid subjects, courses and careers that involve maths. Such avoidance can limit students’ opportunities and career pathways. “
Tackle maths anxiety by CBT and offer maths tuition focused at NQF level 4 before entrenched maths avoidance strategies have been developed. May be too late, but at least GCSE maths will have been attained and so mathematics should not be such a remote memory two years on.
Lyons and Beilock:
“Individual differences in how math- anxious individuals recruit cognitive control resources prior to doing math and motivational resources during math performance predict the extent of their math deficits. This work suggests that educational interventions emphasizing control of negative emo- tional responses to math stimuli (rather than merely additional math training) will be most effective in revealing a population of mathematically competent individuals, who might otherwise go undiscovered.”
“To our knowledge, this work serves as the first evidence from cognitive neuroscience in support of the idea that education interven- tions which emphasize the control of negative emotional responses to math stimuli may reveal a population of potentially numerically competent individuals.”
Longitudinal study using Short Math Anxiety Rating Scale (Alexander and Martray 1989).
Why a MOOC?