Wearable Technologies for Anxious Adolescents     

Greg Conderman  Toni Van Laarhoven  Jesse Johnson  Lisa Liberty 《Clearing house (Menasha, Wis.)》2021,94(1):1-7

Abstract

Nearly one in three adolescents in our country experience stress or anxiety to the extent that it negatively effects their ability to cope with daily life demands. However, educators are not well prepared to support students who have anxiety-related issues. One approach for supporting adolescents with anxiety-related issues involves the use of wearable technologies. These devices support self-regulation by providing real-time physiological marker information. Wearers can then become more mindful of their stress at that moment and implement positive stress or anxiety-reducing interventions. This article provides an overview of wearable technologies and related research and describes steps that support adolescents who have wearables for addressing their anxiety.  相似文献   

Faculty/Student Mentor Program: Effects on Academic Performance and Retention   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Campbell  Toni A.  Campbell  David E. 《Research in higher education》1997,38(6):727-742

A university faculty/student mentor program was evaluated for its effects on academic performance and retention. A matched pairs design was used in which 339 undergraduates assigned to mentors were paired with nonmentored students based on gender, ethnicity, GPA, and entering enrollment status. The results showed a higher GPA for mentored students (2.45 vs. 2.29), more units completed per semester (9.33 vs. 8.49), and lower dropout rate (14.5% vs. 26.3%). Amount of mentor-protege contact was positively correlated with GPA. Academic achievement and retention were unrelated to gender and ethnicity of the mentor, the protégé, or the gender and ethnic match between the two.  相似文献   

The computer as a toy and tool in the home: implications for schools and teachers     

Toni Downes 《Education and Information Technologies》1996,1(3-4):191-201

This paper presents the findings of a recent research project into children’s access to and use of computers in their homes. The study involved over 400 children who regularly used a computer at home. The children were aged between five and twelve and came from a variety of social, economic and cultural backgrounds in urban Sydney. Significant themes that emerged from the discussion included issues of equity and access, the variety of use of computers, the ways children learned to use them in their homes and children’s perceptions of differences between computing at home and at school. Each of these themes is discussed in terms of the implications for schools and teachers.  相似文献   

The World Café: An innovative method to facilitate reflections on internationalisation in higher education     

Emee Vida Estacio  Toni Karic 《Journal of Further & Higher Education》2016,40(6):731-745

This article provides an example of how the World Café method can be used as a platform to encourage reflection on internationalisation in higher education. The World Café is a community engagement method that encourages participants to engage in reflection and dialogue in a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere. It promotes the use of multiple methods in capturing insights that recognise individual and cultural preferences in communication. It values respect for diversity of perspectives, which resonates with the principles of internationalisation. This article focuses primarily on how this method can be used in practice and provides a step-by-step guide on how to organise and facilitate such an event.  相似文献   

Schooling effects on undergraduate performance: evidence from the University of Barcelona     

Toni Mora  Josep-Oriol Escardíbul 《Higher Education》2008,56(5):519-532

This study analyzes the effects of several factors related to high school, such as the kind of school (public or private), the type of education (general or vocational), school location and peers on undergraduate performance from students of the University of Barcelona (Spain). Particular attention is given to the functional form and to the collection of “unobservables”. Empirical results show that variables related to high school, such as having attended in a private religious school or peer effects of their school contemporaries, are determinant in university final grades. In addition, students’ ability, some household’s characteristics and the 1990 Education Act are also important.  相似文献   

Ethical issues in interaction design     

Toni Robertson 《Ethics and Information Technology》2006,8(2):49-59

When we design information technology we risk building specific metaphors and models of human activities into the technology itself and into the embodied activities, work practices, organisational cultures and social identities of those who use it. This paper is motivated by the recognition that the assumptions about human activity used to guide the design of particular technology are made active, in use, by the interaction design of that technology. A fragment of shared design work is used to ground an exploration of different solutions to one of the technical problems that arise when technology is used to support similar work over distance. The argument is made that some solutions to design problems are better than others because they enable human interaction in different ways. Some solutions enhance the possibilities for human agency, others diminish it. This means that there can be a moral basis for choosing between alternative interaction design decisions that might otherwise be considered equivalent in terms of the functionality and usability of the technology.  相似文献   

Playing with Computing Technologies in the Home     

Toni Downes 《Education and Information Technologies》1999,4(1):65-79

Since the 1980s there have been a number of studies that investigate the use of computers in homes. Many of these focused on the adults or adolescents in the family. Few studies have focused on children, particularly those between the ages of five and twelve. If children of these ages were included in a study they were usually situated within a study of the family and its dynamics, and often their experiences were viewed through the eyes of the adults in the family. The study described in this paper is unique in that the children's perceptions, beliefs and practices were the major focus and the children themselves were the informants. The study investigated children's computer experiences within their homes and their perceptions and beliefs about a range of issues associated with these experiences. The focus in this paper is on the range of computer activities in which children engaged. The major finding was that children's activities, whether game playing, other leisure-related activities or work-related activities, involved 'playful' interactions with the computer which led to exploratory approaches to learning about both the computer and the task itself. © 1999 IFIP, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers  相似文献   

A model for assessing the coherence of companies’ knowledge strategy     

Alberto F?De Toni  Fabio?NoninoEmail author  Matteo?Pivetta 《知识管理研究与实践》2011,9(4):327-341

This paper proposes a strategic model for assessing the coherence between companies’ knowledge strategies and their business strategies as well as in their competitive and organisational contexts. In analysing knowledge management literature, we locate three principal strategies: (1) knowledge development (internal or external), (2) knowledge sharing (codification or personalisation) and (3) knowledge exploitation (internal or external). We then position the three strategies and six related policies in the context-content-process dimensions of Pettigrew's model to create a useful framework for strategic analysis and a model to assess the coherence of companies’ knowledge strategy. The model can be used to evaluate how an existing knowledge strategy aligns with a company's characteristics and to formulate and implement a coherent knowledge strategy based on the current competitive environment, organisational context and business strategy.  相似文献   

Effects of job-embedded professional development on inclusion of students with disabilities in content area classrooms: results of a three-year study     

Toni Strieker  Kent Logan 《International Journal of Inclusive Education》2013,17(10):1047-1065

During the mid-1990s, members of the global education community issued the Salamanca Statement that described inclusive schools as effective educational environments that also combat discrimination. Since that time, considerable progress has been made in moving students with disabilities from separate placements to inclusive settings. In the USA, nearly 10% of the school-aged population needs special education services and of that group, 96% are educated in general education classrooms 80% of the time. Placement of such large numbers of students with disabilities has increased the diversity of the student body and the complexity of teaching of core curriculum. For teachers and students to be successful, teachers need on-going professional development. This paper explores the efficacy of a Job-Embedded Professional Development (JEPD) model in six schools (urban, suburban and rural) that had made a commitment towards including all students with significant disabilities in general education core curriculum. Results are discussed for the six schools as well as for students identified as displaying behaviour disorders, autism or intellectual disabilities.  相似文献   

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Branimir ?verko  Toni Babarovi?  Iva ?verko 《International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance》2002,2(3):221-221

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