The document discusses changes to the design cycle at the school. It now has 4 stages - inquiring and analyzing, developing ideas, creating a solution, and evaluating. More time will be spent on each stage and more work is expected. Assessment criteria for each stage are also outlined, providing details on what will be graded. A high grade now requires high quality work that demonstrates all tasks for a given level, with reflection throughout the design cycle. Simply completing tasks is not enough - work must show depth, detail, and genuine reflection.
Modeling Communities in Information Systems: Informal Learning Communities in...Zina Petrushyna
This document outlines Zinayida Kensche's doctoral thesis defense on modeling informal learning communities in social media. It discusses her research questions, methodology, and key technical contributions. Her work developed models and tools for conceptualizing, monitoring, and analyzing informal learning communities through social media data analysis and agent-based modeling techniques. She addressed how to understand community dynamics, needs, and evolution over time to better support lifelong learning.
The document discusses a school design project where students will create a poster to advertise a school talent show event. It outlines the steps of the design cycle they will follow, including investigating the problem by researching poster design and the event, planning their poster, designing and creating their poster, and then evaluating it. Their poster will help promote their school event and raise money, reflecting their role in both the school and wider community.
Social Network Analysis of 45000 Schools: A Case Study about Technology Enhan...Ralf Klamma
This document discusses using social network analysis to study technology-enhanced learning in Europe. It analyzes a database of over 45,000 schools participating in eTwinning, a European Union program enabling school collaboration. The analysis finds that the teacher network grows more than the school network. It also identifies subnetworks and key points of connection. An evaluation with teachers found the social network analysis tool helped identify collaboration patterns but that training is needed for teachers to fully understand and apply the concepts. Overall, social network analysis can help develop teachers' competencies in learning networks if combined with interventions like training.
1) The document outlines the process for creating a poster to advertise the school's X-Factor event, including researching what makes an effective poster, determining the necessary information to include, exploring design styles and software.
2) Key research steps involve interviewing the event coordinator to understand requirements, analyzing sample posters, and consulting an expert in design. This provides guidance on eye-catching colors, fonts, images and layout.
3) The poster will be designed in Microsoft Publisher to attract the whole school community to the event, with details like the date, location, and event description. Feedback will be gathered to improve the final design.
This document provides guidance on justifying the need for a school project or unit of work. It instructs the reader to consider who will benefit from the project, how they will benefit, and why the described benefits are important. The reader is told to explain how the skills and knowledge gained will be useful in the future. The document emphasizes that the introduction should show an understanding of why the unit of work is necessary and needed, and justify all the reasons the final products are needed and will provide benefits.
This document outlines the importance of creating an effective design specification. It directly influences the design ideas, final product, and project grades. The specification demonstrates applying research knowledge from earlier stages. Like the personal project, the specification is crucial and dictates what must be done based on informed decisions from research. An effective specification comes from good research, while poor research leads to a poor specification. The specification should consider demands that must be achieved, limits to avoid, and wishes that are ideals but not required for success.
This document provides guidance on justifying why a short film project is needed by addressing several key questions: who will benefit from the project and how, why the described benefits are important, whether the skills and knowledge gained will be useful in the future, and reasons why the films are necessary. The introduction to the project should demonstrate an understanding of why the work is required and provide clear reasons why the films are needed by linking responses back to explaining and justifying the value and purpose of the task.
The document discusses changes to the design cycle at the school. It now has 4 stages - inquiring and analyzing, developing ideas, creating a solution, and evaluating. More time will be spent on each stage and more work is expected. Assessment criteria for each stage are also outlined, providing details on what will be graded. A high grade now requires high quality work that demonstrates all tasks for a given level, with reflection throughout the design cycle. Simply completing tasks is not enough - work must show depth, detail, and genuine reflection.
Modeling Communities in Information Systems: Informal Learning Communities in...Zina Petrushyna
This document outlines Zinayida Kensche's doctoral thesis defense on modeling informal learning communities in social media. It discusses her research questions, methodology, and key technical contributions. Her work developed models and tools for conceptualizing, monitoring, and analyzing informal learning communities through social media data analysis and agent-based modeling techniques. She addressed how to understand community dynamics, needs, and evolution over time to better support lifelong learning.
The document discusses a school design project where students will create a poster to advertise a school talent show event. It outlines the steps of the design cycle they will follow, including investigating the problem by researching poster design and the event, planning their poster, designing and creating their poster, and then evaluating it. Their poster will help promote their school event and raise money, reflecting their role in both the school and wider community.
Social Network Analysis of 45000 Schools: A Case Study about Technology Enhan...Ralf Klamma
This document discusses using social network analysis to study technology-enhanced learning in Europe. It analyzes a database of over 45,000 schools participating in eTwinning, a European Union program enabling school collaboration. The analysis finds that the teacher network grows more than the school network. It also identifies subnetworks and key points of connection. An evaluation with teachers found the social network analysis tool helped identify collaboration patterns but that training is needed for teachers to fully understand and apply the concepts. Overall, social network analysis can help develop teachers' competencies in learning networks if combined with interventions like training.
1) The document outlines the process for creating a poster to advertise the school's X-Factor event, including researching what makes an effective poster, determining the necessary information to include, exploring design styles and software.
2) Key research steps involve interviewing the event coordinator to understand requirements, analyzing sample posters, and consulting an expert in design. This provides guidance on eye-catching colors, fonts, images and layout.
3) The poster will be designed in Microsoft Publisher to attract the whole school community to the event, with details like the date, location, and event description. Feedback will be gathered to improve the final design.
This document provides guidance on justifying the need for a school project or unit of work. It instructs the reader to consider who will benefit from the project, how they will benefit, and why the described benefits are important. The reader is told to explain how the skills and knowledge gained will be useful in the future. The document emphasizes that the introduction should show an understanding of why the unit of work is necessary and needed, and justify all the reasons the final products are needed and will provide benefits.
This document outlines the importance of creating an effective design specification. It directly influences the design ideas, final product, and project grades. The specification demonstrates applying research knowledge from earlier stages. Like the personal project, the specification is crucial and dictates what must be done based on informed decisions from research. An effective specification comes from good research, while poor research leads to a poor specification. The specification should consider demands that must be achieved, limits to avoid, and wishes that are ideals but not required for success.
This document provides guidance on justifying why a short film project is needed by addressing several key questions: who will benefit from the project and how, why the described benefits are important, whether the skills and knowledge gained will be useful in the future, and reasons why the films are necessary. The introduction to the project should demonstrate an understanding of why the work is required and provide clear reasons why the films are needed by linking responses back to explaining and justifying the value and purpose of the task.
This document introduces a unit on creativity and innovation in technological health innovations. The key concept is creativity and related concepts are function and innovation. Students will research the benefits of a technological health innovation, and use their creativity and innovation to produce a short educational video about the innovation's health benefits and function for a target audience. The focus of the unit is on understanding filmmaking techniques to effectively create the short video. Students will choose the technological health innovation and target audience to research and create their video about.
This document introduces a unit that asks students to research a technological innovation for health or well-being and create an informative short film about it. The key concept is creativity, and related concepts are function and innovation. Students will choose a technology to investigate, research its health benefits and functions, and creatively produce a video to educate their target audience on the innovation. They are encouraged to determine the intended audience and get feedback from end users such as teachers.
The document discusses changes to the design cycle process and assessment criteria. It outlines the four stages of the new design cycle as inquiring and analyzing, developing ideas, creating a solution, and evaluating. It provides details on what is included in each stage and assessment criteria. A high grade now requires more than just completing tasks - it demands high quality work with sufficient detail in each task as well as deeper reflection throughout the design cycle process.
This document introduces a unit that asks students to research a technological innovation for health or well-being and create an informative short film about it. The key concept is creativity, and related concepts are function and innovation. Students will choose a technology to research, investigate its health benefits and functions, and creatively produce a video to educate their target audience on the technology. They can select the target audience and end user, such as students in a particular class, to ensure the video meets their needs.
Students are required to create an effective poster advertisement to advertise an upcoming school event, International Evening in December, to their peers, families, and teachers. The poster must satisfy the end-users' (Miss Daykin and Miss Barton) requirements and convey the theme of the event through manipulation of form, which includes elements like images, text, shapes, and colors. To be successful, the poster must communicate important information to the target audience—the ISM community of students, parents, and teachers—through consideration of its function, form, and collaboration with end-users.
Your Evaluation Stage needs to be finished and submitted by Monday 19th May along with your completed word document containing all Stages. Final Assessment of your work will then take place and your end of year grades calculated based on Unit 1 and 2 marks and group work participation. This will be included in your final end of year report.
This document provides background information and guiding questions for a student project analyzing the relationship between health and technology, focusing on x-rays. It begins with an introduction outlining the unit question and focus on technology's effects on human health. Next, it provides context on the role of technology in society and comparisons of technology to a teacher. The document then lists guiding questions for the student's research and explains their choice to analyze x-rays. Finally, it shares information collected on how x-rays function, their relationship to health, their medical benefits, and design features to include or avoid in the student's video project.
This document discusses the factors that contribute to making a good website. It identifies key elements such as color schemes, themes, fonts, usability, and contact information. It also provides examples of both good and bad website designs. The document outlines a design brief, specification, limits, and demands for creating a website about human catastrophes. The intended purpose is to inform the community and the target audience is younger users.
This document provides guidance for evaluating a project against its original specifications and goals. It instructs students to review their specifications from the beginning of the project and compare the final outcome to determine if the project achieved its intended objectives. Students are asked to assess their own work based on pre-defined achievement levels and predict if their self-assessment will match their supervisor's evaluation.
This document provides guidance on selecting sources for a student project. It emphasizes selecting a variety of relevant sources, including experts in the field, published media, surveys, and carefully selected websites. Students are advised to evaluate sources for reliability based on the author's credentials, where it was published, its objectivity and bias, quality, and appropriate quantity of information. A checklist is provided to help students consider various source types and record their source selection process in their process journal. The goal is to achieve a high standard when selecting sources to complete their project.
The document provides instructions for students to follow during the Create Stage of a design project. Students should follow the specification and design prototype, set up the correct page size, and use appropriate software. They also need to maintain a process journal with regular diary entries documenting their progress step-by-step along with screenshots, and reflecting on their progress. Finally, the deadline for posters is October 24th and when finished, students should save their poster, upload it along with their process journal to the required platforms, and evaluate their performance.
The document provides guidance for a student's personal project process journal deadline on Thursday October 17th. It outlines the criteria and objectives the journal will be assessed on, including applying information to make decisions and create solutions related to the project's goal. The student is instructed to have a minimum of 20 pages in their journal. It also provides examples of different types of information sources the student should use, such as experts, published media, surveys, and websites. The student is asked to make a list of questions to guide their investigation and determine if sources have helped answer those questions. Lastly, the document lists ideas that should be considered and recorded in the journal, such as interpreting information to make decisions, finding information to learn new skills,
The document lists dates and times for a school play at the International School of Milan. It includes Wednesday the 11th at 2pm, Thursday the 12th at 5pm, and Friday the 13th at 7:30pm. The play, "Our Day Out" by playwright Willy Russell, will be held at the ISM High School located at Via G. Bellini 1 in Milan.
This document provides guidance for students on the process of developing an independent project for the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. It instructs students to review slides in their process journal that relate to approaches to learning, areas of interaction, and expectations for different subject groups. Students are asked to reflect on these areas in written form. The document then outlines specific tasks for brainstorming project ideas, meeting with supervisors, developing goals and specifications to evaluate their project, and identifying necessary resources and skills.
This document provides a worksheet to analyze visual, verbal, and overall effectiveness of a poster. It includes questions about visual elements like colors, shapes, symbols; verbal elements like text amount and readability; and overall impact like intended audience and clear communication of message. The goal is to evaluate the poster's effectiveness as a work of art, means of communication, and advertisement.
The document provides guidance on creating a design brief for addressing a new problem statement. It instructs to gather necessary information from various sources and learn required skills. The design brief should also include goals, target audience, constraints, and criteria. It should describe how the solution will be created and tested with examples of similar products and images for reference.
This document provides guidance on conducting research for a written project. It recommends developing a list of guiding questions to focus the research on key topics. A variety of sources should be used, including websites, books, videos, television, newspapers, magazines, and interviews. All sources must be evaluated for bias, validity, and reliability. Finally, sources must be properly cited in a bibliography with relevant publication details.
The document outlines the investigation stage of a design cycle which consists of: introducing the unit, researching the problem, creating a design brief and specification, a test plan, and evaluating performance. It then provides more details on writing an introduction, including clearly stating the problem, considering what needs to be achieved like educating an audience and promoting a technology, and reflecting on how those things can be achieved. The introduction should also relate the problem personally and to society, and link it to the area of interaction being studied.
This document provides guidance on creating a design brief to address a new problem statement. It instructs the writer to outline how they will gather necessary information from various sources and learn required skills. The design brief should also include the goal of the design, its target audience, any constraints, and the criteria a good design should meet such as being informative and captivating. Examples should be included to illustrate similar existing products and their desirable characteristics.
This document introduces a unit on creativity and innovation in technological health innovations. The key concept is creativity and related concepts are function and innovation. Students will research the benefits of a technological health innovation, and use their creativity and innovation to produce a short educational video about the innovation's health benefits and function for a target audience. The focus of the unit is on understanding filmmaking techniques to effectively create the short video. Students will choose the technological health innovation and target audience to research and create their video about.
This document introduces a unit that asks students to research a technological innovation for health or well-being and create an informative short film about it. The key concept is creativity, and related concepts are function and innovation. Students will choose a technology to investigate, research its health benefits and functions, and creatively produce a video to educate their target audience on the innovation. They are encouraged to determine the intended audience and get feedback from end users such as teachers.
The document discusses changes to the design cycle process and assessment criteria. It outlines the four stages of the new design cycle as inquiring and analyzing, developing ideas, creating a solution, and evaluating. It provides details on what is included in each stage and assessment criteria. A high grade now requires more than just completing tasks - it demands high quality work with sufficient detail in each task as well as deeper reflection throughout the design cycle process.
This document introduces a unit that asks students to research a technological innovation for health or well-being and create an informative short film about it. The key concept is creativity, and related concepts are function and innovation. Students will choose a technology to research, investigate its health benefits and functions, and creatively produce a video to educate their target audience on the technology. They can select the target audience and end user, such as students in a particular class, to ensure the video meets their needs.
Students are required to create an effective poster advertisement to advertise an upcoming school event, International Evening in December, to their peers, families, and teachers. The poster must satisfy the end-users' (Miss Daykin and Miss Barton) requirements and convey the theme of the event through manipulation of form, which includes elements like images, text, shapes, and colors. To be successful, the poster must communicate important information to the target audience—the ISM community of students, parents, and teachers—through consideration of its function, form, and collaboration with end-users.
Your Evaluation Stage needs to be finished and submitted by Monday 19th May along with your completed word document containing all Stages. Final Assessment of your work will then take place and your end of year grades calculated based on Unit 1 and 2 marks and group work participation. This will be included in your final end of year report.
This document provides background information and guiding questions for a student project analyzing the relationship between health and technology, focusing on x-rays. It begins with an introduction outlining the unit question and focus on technology's effects on human health. Next, it provides context on the role of technology in society and comparisons of technology to a teacher. The document then lists guiding questions for the student's research and explains their choice to analyze x-rays. Finally, it shares information collected on how x-rays function, their relationship to health, their medical benefits, and design features to include or avoid in the student's video project.
This document discusses the factors that contribute to making a good website. It identifies key elements such as color schemes, themes, fonts, usability, and contact information. It also provides examples of both good and bad website designs. The document outlines a design brief, specification, limits, and demands for creating a website about human catastrophes. The intended purpose is to inform the community and the target audience is younger users.
This document provides guidance for evaluating a project against its original specifications and goals. It instructs students to review their specifications from the beginning of the project and compare the final outcome to determine if the project achieved its intended objectives. Students are asked to assess their own work based on pre-defined achievement levels and predict if their self-assessment will match their supervisor's evaluation.
This document provides guidance on selecting sources for a student project. It emphasizes selecting a variety of relevant sources, including experts in the field, published media, surveys, and carefully selected websites. Students are advised to evaluate sources for reliability based on the author's credentials, where it was published, its objectivity and bias, quality, and appropriate quantity of information. A checklist is provided to help students consider various source types and record their source selection process in their process journal. The goal is to achieve a high standard when selecting sources to complete their project.
The document provides instructions for students to follow during the Create Stage of a design project. Students should follow the specification and design prototype, set up the correct page size, and use appropriate software. They also need to maintain a process journal with regular diary entries documenting their progress step-by-step along with screenshots, and reflecting on their progress. Finally, the deadline for posters is October 24th and when finished, students should save their poster, upload it along with their process journal to the required platforms, and evaluate their performance.
The document provides guidance for a student's personal project process journal deadline on Thursday October 17th. It outlines the criteria and objectives the journal will be assessed on, including applying information to make decisions and create solutions related to the project's goal. The student is instructed to have a minimum of 20 pages in their journal. It also provides examples of different types of information sources the student should use, such as experts, published media, surveys, and websites. The student is asked to make a list of questions to guide their investigation and determine if sources have helped answer those questions. Lastly, the document lists ideas that should be considered and recorded in the journal, such as interpreting information to make decisions, finding information to learn new skills,
The document lists dates and times for a school play at the International School of Milan. It includes Wednesday the 11th at 2pm, Thursday the 12th at 5pm, and Friday the 13th at 7:30pm. The play, "Our Day Out" by playwright Willy Russell, will be held at the ISM High School located at Via G. Bellini 1 in Milan.
This document provides guidance for students on the process of developing an independent project for the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. It instructs students to review slides in their process journal that relate to approaches to learning, areas of interaction, and expectations for different subject groups. Students are asked to reflect on these areas in written form. The document then outlines specific tasks for brainstorming project ideas, meeting with supervisors, developing goals and specifications to evaluate their project, and identifying necessary resources and skills.
This document provides a worksheet to analyze visual, verbal, and overall effectiveness of a poster. It includes questions about visual elements like colors, shapes, symbols; verbal elements like text amount and readability; and overall impact like intended audience and clear communication of message. The goal is to evaluate the poster's effectiveness as a work of art, means of communication, and advertisement.
The document provides guidance on creating a design brief for addressing a new problem statement. It instructs to gather necessary information from various sources and learn required skills. The design brief should also include goals, target audience, constraints, and criteria. It should describe how the solution will be created and tested with examples of similar products and images for reference.
This document provides guidance on conducting research for a written project. It recommends developing a list of guiding questions to focus the research on key topics. A variety of sources should be used, including websites, books, videos, television, newspapers, magazines, and interviews. All sources must be evaluated for bias, validity, and reliability. Finally, sources must be properly cited in a bibliography with relevant publication details.
The document outlines the investigation stage of a design cycle which consists of: introducing the unit, researching the problem, creating a design brief and specification, a test plan, and evaluating performance. It then provides more details on writing an introduction, including clearly stating the problem, considering what needs to be achieved like educating an audience and promoting a technology, and reflecting on how those things can be achieved. The introduction should also relate the problem personally and to society, and link it to the area of interaction being studied.
This document provides guidance on creating a design brief to address a new problem statement. It instructs the writer to outline how they will gather necessary information from various sources and learn required skills. The design brief should also include the goal of the design, its target audience, any constraints, and the criteria a good design should meet such as being informative and captivating. Examples should be included to illustrate similar existing products and their desirable characteristics.