Film scenes in interdisciplinary education: teaching the Internet of Things*     

Young-mee Hwang  Kwang-sun Kim  Tami Im 《Educational Media International》2017,54(2):83-98

The Internet of Things (IoT) is gaining importance in education owing to its rapid development. This study addresses the importance of interdisciplinary education between technology and the humanities. The use of films as a teaching resource is suitable for interdisciplinary education because films represent creative forecasts and predictions on future human society, helping the public realize what could occur in the future. By utilizing films in instruction, students can be trained to understand the three key functions of IoT and acquire the ability to develop creative applications of IoT. An IoT teaching model using the films Minority Report (2002), Big Hero 6 (2014), Iron Man 3 (2013), Her (2013), and Transcendence (2014), all of which depict various applications of IoT that could be helpful in the teaching of the functions and concepts of IoT, is suggested; an interdisciplinary class is carried out for 15 weeks following the model. The effectiveness of the class is measured using quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis, and reflection journals. The findings show that students developed interdisciplinary capacity through education using films.  相似文献   

The postmodern perfectionist,the pragmatic hedonist and the materialist maximalist: understanding high school students’ profile choices towards or away from mathematics,science and technology (MST) fields in the Netherlands     

D. Yazilitas  S. Saharso  G.C. de Vries  J.S. Svensson 《Gender and education》2017,29(7):831-849

This study focuses on high school students’ profile choices and the choice for or against the Nature and Technology (NT) profile in the Netherlands. A mixed-methods approach is used to study cultural values that affect this choice. The quantitative part of the study shows that being female is negatively correlated with the choice for the NT-profile, irrespective of the grade average for mathematics, chemistry and physics. It further shows that students’ ethnic background does not have a significant effect on this choice. The qualitative part of the study reveals that students’ choice processes towards or away from NT can be categorised in three ideal types: the postmodern perfectionist, the pragmatic hedonist and the materialist maximalist. Gender differences appear to be more pervasive across these types than differences in ethnic background.  相似文献   

Within and between person associations of calibration and achievement     

《Contemporary educational psychology》2017

Self-regulated learning (SRL), the ability to set goals and monitor and control progress toward these goals, is an important part of a positive mathematical disposition. Within SRL, accurate metacognitive monitoring is necessary to drive control processes. Students who display this accuracy are said to be calibrated, and although calibration is a growing area of research within Educational Psychology, unanswered questions remain about calibration's role as an aspect of metacognition, including the unique association between calibration and academic performance. In this study, calibration is characterized as part of a dynamic system that varies across tasks within the same person; variance in calibration is associated with variance in performance gain for the same student across tasks (quizzes within a year-long mathematics curriculum, ST Math). Both accurate determinations of certainty (Sensitivity) and uncertainty (Specificity) have unique small, yet statistically significant, associations with performance gains from pre to posttest in ST Math. For Specificity, there also remains a contextual association with performance at the Person level. Results are discussed in light of prior research on calibration and of theories of SRL; the data and analyses present a novel approach to studying calibration within a dynamic system and offer insights for future work.  相似文献   

技术批判理论视域下《美国国家教育技术计划》文本分析     

胡伟 《高等理科教育》2017,(2)

技术的不断进步对教育领域相关政策的制定起着越来越重要的作用.《美国国家教育技术计划》是提高技术在教育中应用的纲领性文件.从技术批判理论的视角出发,通过文本分析的研究方法,揭示出技术影响下蕴含在教育领域中一种追求效率的技术理性思维,具体表现为基于数据分析的真理判定、基于技术系统的社会秩序、基于技术素养的教育目的.文章借鉴技术批判理论的观点,试图探求解决当下教育政策文本中过于追求技术理性的问题,实现理性与艺术的结合.据此,对我国教育技术政策制定提供一定的启示,包括关注时代合理性诉求,反思人文不合理问题,权衡技术与人的关系.  相似文献   

Examining the moderating effect of individual-level cultural values on users’ acceptance of E-learning in developing countries: a structural equation modeling of an extended technology acceptance model     

Ali Tarhini  Kate Hone  Xiaohui Liu  Takwa Tarhini 《Interactive Learning Environments》2017,25(3):306-328

In this study, we examine the effects of individual-level culture on the adoption and acceptance of e-learning tools by students in Lebanon using a theoretical framework based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). To overcome possible limitations of using TAM in developing countries, we extend TAM to include subjective norms (SN) and quality of work life constructs as additional constructs and a number of cultural variables as moderators. The four cultural dimensions of masculinity/femininity (MF), individualism/collectivism, power distance and uncertainty avoidance were measured at the individual level to enable them to be integrated into the extended TAM as moderators and a research model was developed based on previous literature. To test the hypothesised model, data were collected from 569 undergraduate and postgraduate students using e-learning tools in Lebanon via questionnaire. The collected data were analysed using the structural equation modelling technique in conjunction with multi-group analysis. As hypothesised, the results of the study revealed perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PEOU), SN and quality of work life to be significant determinants of students’ behavioural intention (BI) towards e-learning. The empirical results also demonstrated that the relationship between SN and BI was particularly sensitive to differences in individual-cultural values, with significant moderating effects observed for all four of the cultural dimensions studied. Some moderating effects of culture were also found for both PU and PEOU, however, contrary to expectations the effect of quality of work life was not found to be moderated by MF as some previous authors have predicted. The implications of these results to both theory and practice are explored in the paper.  相似文献   

Systematically reviewing the potential of concept mapping technologies to promote self-regulated learning in primary and secondary science education     

《Educational Research Review》2017

We systematically searched five databases to assess the potential of concept mapping-based technologies to promote self-regulated learning in science education. Our search uncovered 17 relevant studies that investigated seven different types of learning technologies. We performed a narrative analysis assessing how each technology affects self-regulated learning through cognitive, metacognitive, and motivation strategies, according to Schraw et al. (2006)'s model. We suggest concept mapping technologies may affect self-regulated learning through enhancing these strategies to varying degrees. Computer software was particularly useful for developing cognitive strategies through ease of use. Teaching agents were particularly useful for developing metacognitive strategies by coupling visualisation of knowledge patterns with performance monitoring, aided by a teaching metaphor. Finally, mobile devices and teaching agents were most effective in enhancing motivation. Effects on knowledge gains remain unclear due to small sample sizes.  相似文献   

公众参与技术评价的意义和政治影响分析   总被引：3，自引：2，他引：3  

谈毅  仝允桓 《科学学研究》2004,22(4):371-375

技术评价起源于从社会的角度上关注技术发展,通过向决策者提供技术未来可能影响的信息。随着人们对科学技术新发展抱有越来越多的批评和质疑,公众参与技术评价方法被认为是针对现代社会中不确定、不平等问题的一种新的互动式解决途径。本文对这种评价范式的意义和影响进行了分析。  相似文献   

税收优惠、财政补贴与中关村企业创新投入——基于倾向得分匹配法的实证研究     

马玉琪  扈瑞鹏  赵彦云 《科技管理研究》2016,(19):1-6

采用倾向得分匹配法评估税收优惠和财政补贴对中关村高新技术企业自主创新投入的激励效果。研究结果表明:经营状况越好、创新能力越强、知识资本越充足、规模越小的企业越易获得这两种政策扶持;成立时间越短的企业越易获得税收优惠,但这一因素对获得政府补贴无显著影响;税收优惠对企业创新投入有显著的激励作用;财政补贴对创新投入具有一定的正向影响,但与税收优惠相比效果不明显,在解决市场失灵的同时产生了一定程度的政策失灵。  相似文献   

基础研究成果获取专利及其效应   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

方岩 《研究与发展管理》2004,16(2):93-97,105

随着现代科技的发展,基础研究出现了许多新特点与新变化。根据这些特点与变化,探讨了基础研究成果获取专利的现实性和可能性,并对基础研究成果获取专利带来的效应作出分析。认为：只有通过制度创新,才能合理配置知识资源,促进科技转化为生产力,有效参与国际竞争。  相似文献   

公众技术伦理风险情感状况实证研究     

潘建红  段济炜 《科技管理研究》2016,(5):241-247

通过对946名居民的调查,研究社会公众对技术伦理风险情感态度的状况及影响因素。数据分析结论表明,公众对技术伦理风险总体态度较积极,在对技术伦理风险的控制方面公众持有较主动的态度。克隆技术和转基因技术的伦理风险已成为公众态度最为消极的技术伦理风险。通过分析克隆技术与转基因技术伦理风险的影响因素,发现在克隆技术伦理风险方面,性别、职业和收入因素影响最大,在转基因技术伦理风险方面,收入、学历和职业因素影响最大。在对公众情感状况和影响因素分析的基础上,我们提出,深入开展科技伦理普及教育,建立健全科技伦理风险问责机制,建立健全相关行业法律法规及行业规范,促进相关政府职能转移的对策。  相似文献