研究生暑期学校课程教学实践与思考

由于教学目的和学生来源的不同,暑期学校的教学与传统春秋学期教学有很大差别,应针对其特点采取相应的教学方法与组织措施。本文介绍我院在承担暑期学校计算机体系结构课程和实验教学时采取的一些措施,并探讨一些提高暑期学校教学效果的方法。     

教育投影选购宝典

随着高考的结束以及大中院校暑期的临近,一年一度的教育行业投影＂采购季＂也将来临。由于教育投影在实际应用当中,往往要面临使用环境的特殊要求,需要长期高频率下使用、缺乏专业技术人员、维护不及时等诸多问题,所以在教育投影采购上,用户看重的不应只有价格,或涉及产品性能的几个关键参数,真正做到了因地制宜、按需选购,这不仅可以让采购资金得到充分利用,成倍提高教学质量、学校的办学水平,也才最符合采购教育投影的初衷。     

教育投影选购宝典

<正>随着高考的结束以及大中院校暑期的临近,一年一度的教育行业投影"采购季"也将来临。由于教育投影在实际应用当中,往往要面临使用环境的特殊要求,需要长期高频率下使用、缺乏专业技术人员、维护不及时等诸多问题,所以在教育投影采购上,用户看重的不应只有价格,或涉及产品性能的几个关键参数,真正做到了因地制宜、按需选购,这不仅可以让采购资金得到充分利用,成倍提高教学质量、学校的办学水平,也才最符合采购教育投影的初衷。     

打造夏令营视频相册

把夏令营上留下的精彩镜头做成动感十足的视频相册,其实不需要什么专用的影像工具,利用办公软件PowerPoint2010就可轻松搞定。最近学校组织了暑期夏令营活动,校长要求将夏令营期间拍摄的一些精彩镜头做成视频相册,发到学校网站宣传。     

构建学校办学特色的思考

办学特色的问题,是多年来教育界探讨和关注的热点问题,是萦绕在许多校长心头的一个难点问题,同时也是学校持续发展必须解决的现实问题.近日,笔者有幸参加"全国小学特色治校特色教学专题研讨会",在聆听四位专家讲座及诸多校长交流之后,对学校办学特色有了更明确更清晰的认识,对如何构建学校办学特色有了更深的思考,下面结合学校实际,谈谈学校办学特色的构建.     

开学季 宿舍上网那些事

一眨眼暑期就过了,马上就迎来了开学季。在学校宿舍上网可没有在家那么方便。比如很多学校23点就准时熄灯了,网络也断掉了,这时该怎么上网?学校的网线是一人一用,又该怎么突破限制?和他人共用网络的时候,如果被他人限速了,怎么办?快来看看各路高手的上网秘籍吧。     

浅谈高等职业教育两年制软件专业人才培养模式

★　社会是学校办学的评判员,学校办学的成败,取决于社会对人才的认可,也取决于学校培养人才的质量★　师资水平决定着学校的教学质量和办学水平,决定着人才培养质量。建立一支高素质有特色的高等职业教育师资队伍,是发展高等职业教育的关键     

办出“大”特色 培养“新”人才——记开拓创新、求真务实的江苏省张家港市大新中学

大新中学地处长江之滨,始建于1948年,58年的光辉历程,使学校凝聚了深厚的文化底蕴。上世纪90年代后期,原海坝、桥头初中并入大新中学,使学校办学规模迅速扩大。学校始终坚持"让每一位学生获得发展,让每一位学生体验成功,让每一位学生自立成才"的办学理念,明确"以法治校、人文立校、科研强校、特色兴校"的办学思想,师资队伍进一步强化,办学效益进一步提高,社会声誉进一步好转。在     

谱写素质教育的光辉诗篇—江苏省常熟市梅李中心小学巡视

拥有百年光荣办学历史的常熟市梅李中心小学是一所文化底蕴深厚、办学成果丰硕的现代化学校，是江苏省实验小学。学校以“办有灵魂的学校，育有底气的学生”为办学理念，以“现代化校园，科学型管理，创造性教育，全面型人才”为办学目标，以“文化引领发展，课程打造特色，质量提高声誉”为办学思路，     

做优做强教育信息化 全力推进办学现代化——苏州工业园区星海学校E时代

星海学校是苏州工业园区第一所按现代化标准兴建的九年一贯制学校,办学近10年来,学校以"人人成功、人人成星"为教育理想,以"关注主体、科学创新"为办学策略,以"让教育成为发现与创造的艺术"为基本理念,努力打造"科技学园,双语乐园,数码校园和短时高效的质量名园"办学特色,学校先后被评为中国基础教育网络实验学校和苏州市教育信息化示范学校,走出了一条初具星海特色的教育信息化发展之路.     

Searching for the two sigma advantage: Evaluating algebra intelligent tutors

This study evaluated 2 off-the-shelf, computer-based, mathematics intelligent-tutoring systems that provide instruction in algebra during a remedial mathematics summer program. The majority of the enrolled high school students failed to pass algebra in the previous semester. Students were randomly assigned in approximately equal proportions to work with the Carnegie Learning Algebra Cognitive Tutor or the ALEKS Algebra Course. Using the tutoring system exclusively, the students completed a 4-h-a-day, 14-day summer school high school algebra class for credit. The results revealed that both tutoring systems produced statistically and practically meaningful learning gains on measures of arithmetic and algebra knowledge.     

Evaluating a virtual summer school

The Open University's Virtual Summer School took place in 1994 and was an experimental project which aimed to use technology to support students who were unable to attend a conventional campus‐based summer school. Students on many courses at the Open University are expected to attend summer school, but for some students this is impossible. In the Virtual Summer School, 12 students used a wide range of software to communicate with tutors and each other, attend lectures and tutorials, access resources and complete projects in groups. The students were studying Cognitive Psychology and the work involved a range of activities including programming, carrying out experiments and statistical analysis. The evaluation used a series of questionnaires to the students, which were compared with those of students at conventional summer school. This paper provides an overview of the Virtual Summer School, presents a selection of the results of the evaluation and discusses the issues which arose out of the evaluation.     

Quantifying tasks,ergonomic exposures and injury rates among school custodial workers

A job exposure matrix of ergonomics risk factors was constructed for school custodial workers in one large school district in the province of British Columbia using 100 h of 1-min fixed-interval observations, participatory worker consensus on task durations and existing employment and school characteristic data. Significant differences in ergonomics risk factors were found by tasks and occupations. Cleaning and moving furniture, handling garbage, cleaning washrooms and cleaning floors were associated with the most physical risks and the exposure was often higher during the summer vs. the school year. Injury rates over a 4-year period showed the custodian injury rate was four times higher than the overall injury rate across all occupations in the school district. Injury rates were significantly higher in the school year compared with summer (12.2 vs. 7.0 per 100 full-time equivalents per year, p < 0.05). Custodial workers represent a considerable proportion of the labour force and have high injury rates, yet ergonomic studies are disproportionately few. Previous studies that quantified risk factors in custodial workers tended to focus on a few tasks or specific risk factors. This study, using participatory ergonomics and observational methods, systematically quantifies the broad range of musculoskeletal risk factors across multiple tasks performed by custodial workers in schools, adding considerably to the methodological literature.     

Computing at the high school level: Changing what teachers and students know and believe

Research indicates that students often opt out of computing majors due to a lack of prior experience in computing and a lack of knowledge of field-based job opportunities. In addition, it has been found that students respond positively to new subjects when teachers and counselors are enthusiastic and knowledgeable about the area. The summer program described here is designed to improve high school students, teachers and guidance counselors understanding of the opportunities available in computing related fields, specifically information technology through a summer enrichment experience. The hypothesis of this work is that by exposing teachers and counselors to professional development in this field, their attitudes, beliefs and knowledge regarding information technology will be enhanced, thus impacting students’ attitudes (both attending the program and beyond) with respect to information technology and their desire to pursue degrees in this area. Results indicate that the design of this summer program enhanced the knowledge and interest of high school students with respect to information technology. Teachers’ knowledge was also positively influenced. Further refinements are necessary in the design of this program to improve the experiences of guidance counselors.     

Injury risk associated with physical demands and school environment characteristics among a cohort of custodial workers

Few epidemiological studies have investigated the relationship between work exposures and injury risk among custodians. The relationship between injury risk and occupational physical demands (e.g. pushing/pulling, lifting) and school environment characteristics (e.g. school type, season) was investigated among a cohort of 581 school custodians over a 4-year period. In the final Poisson regression models, the risk of injury was associated with time spent in pushing/pulling tasks in a dose-response manner increasing to a five-fold risk among the highest quartile of exposure (risk ratio?=?5.15, 95% CI 1.00, 26.5). Injury risk was also associated with working during the school year compared to the summer, working in a school with grass vs. gravel grounds and working in a school with detached classrooms. Results help to target interventions such as alternative methods for floor cleaning to reduce the pushing/pulling demands of custodial work and to support decisions for alternatives to detached classrooms and grass surfaces. Statement of Relevance: This study examines ergonomic factors (physical demand exposures, school environment characteristics) associated with injury risk among custodial school workers. The findings help schools to target interventions to reduce the physical demands associated with injuries and to design school environments to reduce exposures.     

Using online role play to teach internet safety awareness

This paper reports on an evaluation of Net-Detectives, a creative online role play activity aimed at 9–12 year olds. Net-Detectives forms part of Kidsmart, an Internet awareness programme aimed at school children. It was evaluated through a multiple method data collection using questionnaire surveys, follow up telephone interviews with teachers and observation in use in three UK schools during the summer term of 2003.     

智能科学与技术本科专业“小学期”制教学思考

针对湖南大学智能科学与技术专业现行本科教学计划专业特色、学科交叉性等问题,在分析新的小学期制度基础上,本文阐述新制订的智能科学与技术专业本科教学计划,并探索了小学期制度下教学改革的部分举措,以期通过调整和改革使湖南大学智能科学与技术本科专业的建设更上一个台阶,为本专业的人才培养作出积极贡献。     

Oliver G. Selfridge (1926-2008)

Oliver G. Selfridge, a leader in early artificial intelligence research, whose work extended from 1956 to 2008, recently passed away. His research in machine learning, neural networks and agent-based computing still influence AI today. He helped organize the 1956 Dartmouth summer school, which is generally seen as the origin of American AI and developed Pandemonium, an early AI program that dealt with learning and reasoning, during his more than 50-year career.     

Discovering physics with microcomputers

This paper describes the development and evaluation of CAL software developed for the Open University course “S271—Discovering Physics”. The programs are used by students at week-long summer schools which combine the practical experience of doing physics experiments with remedial tutorial sessions. A wide range of computer tutorials, simulated experiments and tutorial simulations as well as programs to enhance traditional physics experiments were produced. The software was implemented on the TERAK 8510/a graphics microcomputer. The project incorporated the development of an “implementation system” (called OASIS) based on UCSD Pascal to simplify such aspects as text layout, response parsing and graphics. An important part of the project was a program of testing and evaluation by staff and students at a week long summer schoolin 1981. Reactions to the programs were assessed using log sheets, interviews and questionnaires (both written and interactive using a microcomputer) as well as direct observation. The software and the associated printed material were completely redesigned on the basis of the results of this study. Another outcome of the evaluation was the acquisition of knowledge of how students use the CAL software in the environment of a physics summer school.     

Report on the 4th International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructures,Management, and Security (AIMS 2010) and the International Summer School on Network and Service Management (ISSNSM 2010)

This article contains the report on AIMS 2010, which was held June 23–25, 2010 at the Department of Informatics (IFI), University of Zürich, Switzerland and which was driven by the theme “Mechanisms for Autonomous Management of Networks and Services”. Furthermore, the report also synopsizes ISSNSM 2010, which was run June 21–23, 2010 at the same location and which offered a practical summer school on selected topics in network and service management.