The document discusses mobile learning and the opportunities it provides for teaching and learning. It describes how mobile devices like phones can be used to deliver content like podcasts and support learning outside the classroom. It outlines the capabilities of basic and advanced phones and discusses challenges like varying devices and formats. It provides examples of using phones to create multimedia and engage with location-based activities. While interoperability issues exist, mobile learning allows new opportunities to be explored.
Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to Education
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http://joaojosefonseca1.blogspot.com/
Joao Jose Saraiva da Fonseca
Educacao a distancia
Meaning and Definition of Mobile Technologies – Use of Smart Phones in learning – Smart Phones in Schools, Colleges and Universities – Smart Phones in Open Schools, Colleges and Universities – Mobile Phones in Distance Learning.
Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to Education
Liz Kolb
http://joaojosefonseca1.blogspot.com/
Joao Jose Saraiva da Fonseca
Educacao a distancia
Meaning and Definition of Mobile Technologies – Use of Smart Phones in learning – Smart Phones in Schools, Colleges and Universities – Smart Phones in Open Schools, Colleges and Universities – Mobile Phones in Distance Learning.
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EU Project TAU's Seminar 2 material - Part 3
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We are living in the 21st century filled with technology. Children nowadays are more interested on something new such as gadgets. Technology integration in the classroom is one of the revolutions in education. How will educational technology (EdTech) prepare the pre-service education students in teaching these 21st century learners?
How important is technology in education?archana cks
Technology is slowly and steadily making a foray in education. Knowledge is no more limited to books and the use of platforms such as websites, apps, videos, live chats, etc.,
source <> http://www.edubilla.com/blog/how-important-is-technology-in-education-/
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AN ADAPTIVE AND INTELLIGENT TUTOR BY EXPERT SYSTEMS FOR MOBILE DEVICESijmpict
Mobile Learning (M-Learning) is an emerging discipline in the area of education and educational technology. So researchers are trying to optimize and expanding its application in the field of education. The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of mobile devices and expert systems in disseminating and supporting the knowledge gained by intelligent tutors and to propose a system based on integration of intelligent M-Learning with expert systems. It acts as an intelligent tutor which can perform three processes - pre-test, learning concept and post-test - according to characteristic of the learner. The proposed system can improves the education efficiency highly as well as decreases costs. As a result, every time and everywhere (ETEW) simple and cheap learning would be provided via SMS, MMS and so on in this system. The global intention of M-Learning is to make learning “a way of being”.
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Ushering in a new decade, IAO’s Accreditor looks back at the achievements in the education sector worldwide. From featured accreditations to personal accounts of educationists, IAO’s December edition sums up the journey of a decade.
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Introduction:
RNA interference (RNAi) or Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing (PTGS) is an important biological process for modulating eukaryotic gene expression.
It is highly conserved process of posttranscriptional gene silencing by which double stranded RNA (dsRNA) causes sequence-specific degradation of mRNA sequences.
dsRNA-induced gene silencing (RNAi) is reported in a wide range of eukaryotes ranging from worms, insects, mammals and plants.
This process mediates resistance to both endogenous parasitic and exogenous pathogenic nucleic acids, and regulates the expression of protein-coding genes.
What are small ncRNAs?
micro RNA (miRNA)
short interfering RNA (siRNA)
Properties of small non-coding RNA:
Involved in silencing mRNA transcripts.
Called “small” because they are usually only about 21-24 nucleotides long.
Synthesized by first cutting up longer precursor sequences (like the 61nt one that Lee discovered).
Silence an mRNA by base pairing with some sequence on the mRNA.
Discovery of siRNA?
The first small RNA:
In 1993 Rosalind Lee (Victor Ambros lab) was studying a non- coding gene in C. elegans, lin-4, that was involved in silencing of another gene, lin-14, at the appropriate time in the
development of the worm C. elegans.
Two small transcripts of lin-4 (22nt and 61nt) were found to be complementary to a sequence in the 3' UTR of lin-14.
Because lin-4 encoded no protein, she deduced that it must be these transcripts that are causing the silencing by RNA-RNA interactions.
Types of RNAi ( non coding RNA)
MiRNA
Length (23-25 nt)
Trans acting
Binds with target MRNA in mismatch
Translation inhibition
Si RNA
Length 21 nt.
Cis acting
Bind with target Mrna in perfect complementary sequence
Piwi-RNA
Length ; 25 to 36 nt.
Expressed in Germ Cells
Regulates trnasposomes activity
MECHANISM OF RNAI:
First the double-stranded RNA teams up with a protein complex named Dicer, which cuts the long RNA into short pieces.
Then another protein complex called RISC (RNA-induced silencing complex) discards one of the two RNA strands.
The RISC-docked, single-stranded RNA then pairs with the homologous mRNA and destroys it.
THE RISC COMPLEX:
RISC is large(>500kD) RNA multi- protein Binding complex which triggers MRNA degradation in response to MRNA
Unwinding of double stranded Si RNA by ATP independent Helicase
Active component of RISC is Ago proteins( ENDONUCLEASE) which cleave target MRNA.
DICER: endonuclease (RNase Family III)
Argonaute: Central Component of the RNA-Induced Silencing Complex (RISC)
One strand of the dsRNA produced by Dicer is retained in the RISC complex in association with Argonaute
ARGONAUTE PROTEIN :
1.PAZ(PIWI/Argonaute/ Zwille)- Recognition of target MRNA
2.PIWI (p-element induced wimpy Testis)- breaks Phosphodiester bond of mRNA.)RNAse H activity.
MiRNA:
The Double-stranded RNAs are naturally produced in eukaryotic cells during development, and they have a key role in regulating gene expression .
Richard's aventures in two entangled wonderlandsRichard Gill
Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
Multi-source connectivity as the driver of solar wind variability in the heli...Sérgio Sacani
The ambient solar wind that flls the heliosphere originates from multiple
sources in the solar corona and is highly structured. It is often described
as high-speed, relatively homogeneous, plasma streams from coronal
holes and slow-speed, highly variable, streams whose source regions are
under debate. A key goal of ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter mission is to identify
solar wind sources and understand what drives the complexity seen in the
heliosphere. By combining magnetic feld modelling and spectroscopic
techniques with high-resolution observations and measurements, we show
that the solar wind variability detected in situ by Solar Orbiter in March
2022 is driven by spatio-temporal changes in the magnetic connectivity to
multiple sources in the solar atmosphere. The magnetic feld footpoints
connected to the spacecraft moved from the boundaries of a coronal hole
to one active region (12961) and then across to another region (12957). This
is refected in the in situ measurements, which show the transition from fast
to highly Alfvénic then to slow solar wind that is disrupted by the arrival of
a coronal mass ejection. Our results describe solar wind variability at 0.5 au
but are applicable to near-Earth observatories.
Seminar of U.V. Spectroscopy by SAMIR PANDASAMIR PANDA
Spectroscopy is a branch of science dealing the study of interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy refers to absorption spectroscopy or reflect spectroscopy in the UV-VIS spectral region.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy is an analytical method that can measure the amount of light received by the analyte.
This presentation explores a brief idea about the structural and functional attributes of nucleotides, the structure and function of genetic materials along with the impact of UV rays and pH upon them.
Slide 1: Title Slide
Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Slide 2: Introduction to Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Definition: Extrachromosomal inheritance refers to the transmission of genetic material that is not found within the nucleus.
Key Components: Involves genes located in mitochondria, chloroplasts, and plasmids.
Slide 3: Mitochondrial Inheritance
Mitochondria: Organelles responsible for energy production.
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA): Circular DNA molecule found in mitochondria.
Inheritance Pattern: Maternally inherited, meaning it is passed from mothers to all their offspring.
Diseases: Examples include Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) and mitochondrial myopathy.
Slide 4: Chloroplast Inheritance
Chloroplasts: Organelles responsible for photosynthesis in plants.
Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA): Circular DNA molecule found in chloroplasts.
Inheritance Pattern: Often maternally inherited in most plants, but can vary in some species.
Examples: Variegation in plants, where leaf color patterns are determined by chloroplast DNA.
Slide 5: Plasmid Inheritance
Plasmids: Small, circular DNA molecules found in bacteria and some eukaryotes.
Features: Can carry antibiotic resistance genes and can be transferred between cells through processes like conjugation.
Significance: Important in biotechnology for gene cloning and genetic engineering.
Slide 6: Mechanisms of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Non-Mendelian Patterns: Do not follow Mendel’s laws of inheritance.
Cytoplasmic Segregation: During cell division, organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts are randomly distributed to daughter cells.
Heteroplasmy: Presence of more than one type of organellar genome within a cell, leading to variation in expression.
Slide 7: Examples of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Four O’clock Plant (Mirabilis jalapa): Shows variegated leaves due to different cpDNA in leaf cells.
Petite Mutants in Yeast: Result from mutations in mitochondrial DNA affecting respiration.
Slide 8: Importance of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Evolution: Provides insight into the evolution of eukaryotic cells.
Medicine: Understanding mitochondrial inheritance helps in diagnosing and treating mitochondrial diseases.
Agriculture: Chloroplast inheritance can be used in plant breeding and genetic modification.
Slide 9: Recent Research and Advances
Gene Editing: Techniques like CRISPR-Cas9 are being used to edit mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA.
Therapies: Development of mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT) for preventing mitochondrial diseases.
Slide 10: Conclusion
Summary: Extrachromosomal inheritance involves the transmission of genetic material outside the nucleus and plays a crucial role in genetics, medicine, and biotechnology.
Future Directions: Continued research and technological advancements hold promise for new treatments and applications.
Slide 11: Questions and Discussion
Invite Audience: Open the floor for any questions or further discussion on the topic.
Comparing Evolved Extractive Text Summary Scores of Bidirectional Encoder Rep...University of Maribor
Slides from:
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Track: Artificial Intelligence
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
2. Introduction
Mobile learning is considered to be the ability to use mobile devices to
support teaching and learning. It is the ‘mobile' aspect of mobile learning that makes
it stand apart from other types of learning, specifically designing learning
experiences that exploit the opportunities that ‘mobility' can offer us.
This is because mobile devices have features and functionality for
supporting learners. For example, podcasts of lectures can be made available for
downloading. Learners are to expected to engage with these learning resources whilst
away from the traditional learning spaces. Although some will say that physical
books count as mobile devices too, in this advice document we are concerned with
electronic mobile devices.
There is a wide range of mobile devices on the market including
laptops, PDAs, and e-book readers. However, we will be looking at the most popular
mobile device - the mobile phone. Mass proliferation of mobile phones and the
features and functionality they offer make the device stand out as an area ripe for
exploration. Mobile phones are multi-function devices which are of interest due to
their very nature of offering ‘mobility', but also for their ability to create and
consume digital media. Furthermore its convergence with the internet offers further
potential opportunities to support teaching and learning.
What makes mobile learning exciting is that despite many of the
individual features being around for years, it is the bringing together of the features,
functionality and ability to connect to the internet that means we have now passed the
tipping point regarding learner adoption: thus creating and using digital media can be
seriously looked at with these devices. The mobile user experience is different from
the desktop computer experience and the face-to-face experience, however mobile
learning can be used to support both as well as standing alone.
3. Mobile Learning
Cameron Moll points out that we are now at a point where we
must consider the mobile experience in its own right - the learning objectives remain
the same - to provide a rich teaching and learning experience - but that the context of
mobile differs from that of designing for a desktop computer experience and that of a
face-to-face experience.
Teaching using mobile devices uniquely offers us newfound mobility,
and functionality opportunities that are not possible with desktop computers. These
opportunities should at a minimum intrigue us and will hopefully lead to many new
and exciting uses of mobile devices that we are able to take advantage of.
Current capabilities and applications
Basic mobile phone features include:
Making and receiving calls
Sending and receiving text messages
Basic office tools e.g. calculator
Advanced mobile phone features include:
Bluetooth
Camera capable of taking stills and more commonly now video
(e-book readers, games)
Recording audio
GPS / location aware
Web browser to connect to the internet
4. The term smartphone
It is quite common to hear the term ‘smartphone' which is meant to signify
that it has many features that traditional mobile phones do not. However in the last
few years this gap has blurred as nearly all new phones would fit in this 'smartphone'
label so we will just be using the term ‘mobile phone' as we are looking at current
and emerging mobile phones.
By now, it should be clear that with the wide range of mobile phone
functionality, there will be many potential uses for mobile devices in education,
including the creation and delivery of content. Not directly related to the teaching
itself, there are also potential secondary benefits, such as the possibilities for making
the teaching environment (smart buildings) more aware of learners based on their
mobile phone acting as a beacon or identifier and then both parties having the ability
to respond or act on pre-defined inputs and outputs.
Opportunities and challenges
There are a wide range of mobile devices, it is estimated that there are around 350-
400 different mobile devices to cater for. So where do we start? There are a small
number of key players emerging, each with their own operating systems and
hardware such as Microsoft, Apple, Google Android and RIM. It would make sense
to start by accommodating whichever are the most commonly used in your
institution, and also to use any common standards where possible to reach as many
devices as possible.
Creating and publishing multimedia
Most new mobile phone devices have the ability to create digital media, typically still
images and video with audio. This provides the opportunity for both teaching staff
and learners to produce multimedia that may have been expensive in the past and
involved institution-only devices. Now, using learner devices that have common
features for creating images, audio and video, we can design activities that support
5. these media such as evidence based learning activities. Other examples include
creating media that can then be used for discussion.
Further opportunities include using the context-specific opportunities of a mobile
device to devise new teaching and learning activity that takes advantage of mobility,
and features such as GPS for location-based activity. JISC is actively exploring
opportunities for mobile learning and has already funded projects that experiment
with many aspects unique to mobile learning.
Challenges
With the increase in usefulness of a mobile device, its use will also increase and this
will dramatically reduce battery life. A huge range of mobile phone devices may
make support difficult, for example interoperability issues to do with video file
formats will plague us until the key players agree on which standards to use. But
even if they do not agree, there are already methods to allow the device to choose
from a range of formats to help alleviate problems.
The cost of devices, service charges and range of features will always result in
learners owning a wide range of devices. This will make conducting ‘feature specific'
activities difficult for all (GPS related activity for example.) However having an
alternative suitable activity will mitigate much of this as will institutional support of
the infrastructure including wireless internet availability.
Consuming digital media
Many mobile phone devices are able to view and/or download digital media
such as audio and video. Once again this provides us with an opportunity for teaching
activity including contextualised fieldwork opportunities. For example, listening to
audio based activities that incorporate the listener's location are already being used in
multiple disciplines. The use of QR codes, which work much like a barcode, can send
the learner to relevant media/web services such as the printed session slides having a
QR code that send the learner to the download location online.
6. Challenges
The range of mobile devices means that anything created for multiple devices
will have some interoperability issues that need to be considered, which may mean
producing alternatives.
Supporting the mobile user
Even if you do not intend on designing mobile specific activities, where
possible you can begin to make your current resources mobile device friendly. For
example it may be that your video uses a format that works for both desktop
computers and mobile devices. It is also important to consider the platform from
which the learners will interact with publishing and consuming resources.
Application
Mobile learning in the context of higher education is relatively new and
undertheorised both in initial teacher education and more generally in university
teaching. Interest in mobile learning approaches in Teacher Education and
consequently academics are involved in sharing and exchanging information on
research and potential uses of mobile technologies through communities of practice,
working groups and professional learning communities Similar interest in the use of
handheld devices is evident in Maths Education contexts. Bannon, Martin and
Nunes-Bufford (2012) found that both pre-service and in-service teachers saw value
in integrating iPads into Maths education as a tool to promote student learning. For
example, supporting learning through the use of Maths games applications (‘apps’)
targeting specific concepts. The project noted the need for careful preparation in iPad
implementation to initiate transformation in teacher education. Also, smart phones
have been exploited to extend mathematical thinking and enhance problem-solving
procedures . Given the potential of these devices to support collaborative and
contextualised learning, their use may address some of the concerns in Maths
teaching such as didactic approaches and de-contextualised material removed from
7. real-world settings. At the school level, Tangney et al explore innovative uses of
smart phones among school Maths students studying in ‘out of class’ settings.
Informed by a social constructivist pedagogical approach to m-learning, the authors
provide examples whereby the functions and capabilities of smart phone applications
can be used as a basis for scaffolding learning scenarios occurring in real-life
contexts, opening up student exploration of trigonometry and fractions concepts and
developing higher order thinking skill. teacher educators need to be prepared to
explore the learning possibilities of mobile devices in Maths education and “need to
develop a professional attitude of evaluation and reflection about tools for teaching –
a thoughtful visioning that investigates and considers the impact of the tools for
teaching Maths” .
Exploring Maths in the real-world
A strong emerging theme was the pre-service teachers’ use of the iPad to
explore and become more aware of Maths in everyday environments and to initiate
their thinking about real-life contexts for K-6 Maths learning experiences. Activities
involved capturing and annotating images from rich, meaningful, user-generated
contexts. These artefacts subsequently became the focus of university class-based
discussions with peers and staff as a catalyst for their thinking about authentic,
technology-mediated Maths Education. In this way, they were developing knowledge
about their nuanced use of ICT in their Maths teaching . Geometry and fractions were
the Maths domains most often used in these scenarios.
Students was walking through the city and noticed geometrical shapes in the
urban landscapes. One student used her iPad to take a photo and later, on the train
travelling home, annotated it to highlight the shapes in the photo . She later showed
these photos and discussed relevant Maths concepts with her peers and lecturer in a
small group conversation ‘around the iPad’ during a campus-based class
8. Mobile learning exercise allowed pre-service teachers to generate artefacts
depicting rich contexts, enhancing their recognition and observation skills and
developing more positive attitudes towards Maths. The iPad allowed them to follow-up
and discuss the Maths associated with these artefact.
The pre-service Maths teachers used their iPads to mediate their own
professional learning, exploiting features of authenticity and personalisation in both
formal and informal settings. They used their mobile devices to notice and capture
‘out-of-class’ Maths phenomena, following-up and discussing implications for their
Maths teaching. They used the technology to facilitate an enhanced awareness of
Maths in everyday contexts, and then used this knowledge to develop rich,
contextualised ideas for their own ICT-mediated K-6 Maths tasks.
9. Conclusion
We are at a point where for at least a small percentage of our teaching and
learning we can begin to incorporate part of the mobile learning experience into our
course design. Initially this may simply mean that we acknowledge that some
learners will interact with our course using mobile devices and impact how we
choose to disseminate information. We can, fairly safely, expect that many learners
are already checking course email and accessing your resources such as podcasts
using a mobile device. It won't be long until we are able to fully integrate parts of our
courses with the mobile experience. A recent study by Edinburgh University, mobile
survey 2010 highlights that 50% of learners have contract phones with unlimited
internet connectivity. As more of these studies are released we can take stock of what
opportunities we can reasonably pursue.The use of mobile devices is here to stay and
we can progressively accommodate this new platform to enhance our teaching and
learning. Finally, the use of personal devices for both teaching staff and learners has
blurred the line between formal and informal learning. The implications of which
we'll know more about in the near future.
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10. Reference
1) A historical overview of mobile learning: Toward learner-centered education-
Crompton, H.
2)Using Network and Mobile Technology to Bridge Formal and Informal Learning-
Trentin G. & Repetto M
3)"Use of Mobile Technology for Information Collection and Dissemination" -
Matthew Davis
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