A synchronous distance discussion procedure with reinforcement mechanism: Designed for elementary school students to achieve the attending and responding stages of the affective domain teaching goals within a class period

Distance education courses must cope with the difficulties imposed by delivering a class at a distance. As most courses only emphasize the cognitive aspects of the class and neglect the course’s effect on the students, this gives no help for reaching the affective domain teaching goals. Especially for younger students, in distance education, when younger students are out of the sight of teachers, they could easily be distracted by the environment around them. This research outlines a synchronous discussion procedure with reinforcement mechanism designed for elementary school students to integrate the affective aspects of teaching into distance education within a class period. The mechanism allows teachers to understand students’ attitudes within the class and provides instant feedback to the teacher. Learners can also get information about their attitudes and help to reach the affective domain teaching goals of the courses. This mechanism was implemented and investigated. Comparative assessments were made by administering interviews and questionnaires to elementary school students. The results show that the procedure can supervise learners and help them reach the response stage of the affective domain teaching goals.     

Fuzzy fusion for attending and responding assessment system of affective teaching goals in distance learning

Teachers can handle learning situations during activities in peer-to-peer classes, and assess student achievements associated with teaching goals in the affective domain. In distance learning, teachers cannot directly observe student states and assess achievement concurrently. Many distance education studies adopted frequency of interaction as the basis of student participation when assessing the student achievements in class. However, the number of times a student interacts is not equal to discussion quality. Although synchronous discussions during class can help teachers assess learning states, these discussions are not suited to all courses. If a teacher can supervise student images from computer’s webcam and observe student status, the teacher can assess achievement accurately. Image processing technology can be applied in an assessment system in distance learning, student states can be observed and these observational results can be combined with behavior detection to help teachers assess student achievement in terms of teaching goals in the affective domain.This study had analyzed the theory and method of assessing affective domain teaching goals. The assessment system had been implemented and simulated using image processing technology and records to analyze student achievement of attending and responding stages with a class period, via fuzzy logic and a fuzzy integral. Simulation results indicate that this assessment system can accurately assess student achievement in terms of attending and responding stages of affective domain teaching goals.     

职业学校招生大战后的反思

招生指标与学校的前程、领导的政绩、教师的利益挂钩,在地方政府保护下的招生处于垄断、混乱、无序状态,导致教育资源的浪费、教师道德沦丧、社会对职业教育作用的失望、教育教学管理混乱。本文从竞争、危害及对策三方面浅谈职业学校招生大战后的反思。     

Being your own role model for improving self‐efficacy: An elementary teacher self‐actualizes through drama‐based science teaching

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Many teachers in elementary schools lack school science self‐efficacy, largely because of their inexperience with the subject. This frequently leads them to avoid teaching science or to teach it in ways that compromise the development of aspects of students’ scientific literacy. This paper describes how one teacher was able to improve her school science self‐efficacy through facilitated action research. In response to becoming aware of a discrepancy between her school science practices and her fundamental educational beliefs, Lisa developed a drama‐based, integrated science unit that she judged successful in helping students to achieve relevant learning goals. This experience led Lisa and her students to feel much more positive about teaching and learning in school science. Rather than learning from another, however, “Lisa, the science teacher” learned— to a great extent—from “Lisa, the drama‐based educator.” This finding has implications for science‐phobic teachers and for facilitators of their action research.     

人工智能在基础教育教学应用综述

人工智能是研究运用计算机系统模拟和延伸人脑功能的学科,当前在基础教育教学领域应用越来越广泛.该文从教师、管理者和学生三个视角对人工智能在基础教育教学中的应用进行文献综述和实地调研,旨在分析人工智能中典型的技术,包括计算机视觉、自然语言处理、知识图谱、大数据挖掘等在教育教学各个环节中的使用情况,并根据调研中发现的问题总结...     

Transition Between University Students to Teachers: Practice in the Middle

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This article presents a study done in an elementary mathematics methods course that focused on the transition of novice teachers’ epistemological stances: former elementary student, university student, and teacher stances. In order to help them develop the teacher stance, we designed a three-phase activity, where two phases took place inside class and the last one occurred outside of class. Novice teachers were given an assignment where they had to rehearse a count in class and enact it in front of a small group of students. They had to write reflections on their rehearsal and enactment. Interviews were done 4 months after the end of the course. The results show that the reflections about mathematics in relation to the use of new teaching practices on eliciting students’ thinking allowed the novice teachers to develop the teacher stance.     

“互联网+”背景下高校通识教育智慧课堂教学模式设计与应用

在“互联网+”时代,教育的方式与环境、教师与学生的角色与行为均发生了变化,这为教育的变革提供了契机。高校通识类课程可以在“互联网+教育”的背景下设计智慧课堂教学模式,在智慧教学理论的基础上设定教学目标,借助现代信息技术实施课前课中课后的智慧教学,完善多元的智慧教学评价,这些化解了通识类课程在教学期间面临的不同问题,优化了教学成效,助推学生智慧的生成。     

如何打造高中信息技术高效课堂

因信息技术教育在当今社会的重要性,为了使学生在有限的时间里掌握计算机的基本知识和基本技能,为了教给学生掌握数字化生存的本领,提高学生素质,本文通过教学实践,从教师的课前精心准备、有趣的导入、教学过程设计方面对信息技术课的高效课堂做了一些有益的尝试。     

让多彩的信息化世界走进美术课堂

信息化教学,增强了趣味性,使课堂更加活跃,并且极大的拓宽了学生的知识面,将学生的兴趣和思维最大限度的调动起来,提高了学生的学习积极性。如果将信息化教学这种崭新的教学模式运用到农村小学美术课堂中,将成为美术教育中的特色,极大的提高教学效果。     

协同学习教学模式下的数据库通识课程教学设计

在高校中普遍开设的计算机类的通识课程能够有效地提高学习者的操作技能并帮助他们掌握科学研究方法,从而有助于高校学生的创新能力的培养。但是由于此类课程内容较多,学生畏难情绪严重,普通教学方式很难让师生同时沉浸教学之中,不能达到预定的教学目标。对此,通过采用协同学习的方式,促使学生和教师在已有一定知识体系的基础上,兼顾前沿和基础,共同学习,深度探索。实验结果表明,多数学生积极参与协同学习的教学过程,并认为这种教学方式能够提高他们的学习兴趣,支持这种协同学习教学模式。     

谈运用电教手段培养学生语文学习能力

电化教育是现代化科学技术在教育教学中的运用,它形象、直观、生动地创设一种轻松愉快的学习环境,在小学语文教学中,注意恰当运用电化教育手段,不仅能有效地提高课堂教学效率,还能促进学生学习能力的培养。     

Assessing mathematics learning achievement using hybrid rough set classifiers and multiple regression analysis

Education is recognized as the key to individual success. Particularly, elementary education is vital for providing students with basic literacy and numeracy, as well as establishing foundations in mathematics, language, science, geography, history, and other social sciences. Mathematics is fundamental to numerous fields with real life applications, including natural science, engineering, medicine, and social sciences; therefore, student mathematics-learning achievement (MLA) in elementary school is valuable. This study aims to eliminate wastage of educational resources and seek suitable hybrid models for application to education. This study proposes an integrated hybrid model based on rough set classifiers and multiple regression analysis and provides a new trial of such a hybrid model to process MLA problems for elementary schools and their teachers. The proposed model is illustrated by examining a dataset from an elementary school in Taiwan. The experimental results reveal that the proposed model outperforms the listing methods in both classification accuracy and standard deviation. The rough set LEM2 (Learning from Examples Module, version 2) algorithm generates a set of comprehensible decision rules that can be applied in a knowledge-based education system designed for interested parties. Consequently, the analytical results have important implications for strategies related to mathematics teaching/learning and support to achieve teaching goals related to mathematics education.     

A constructivist computational platform to support mathematics education in elementary school

Many courses for elementary school are based upon teacher presentation and explanation of basic topics, rather than allowing students to develop their own knowledge. This traditional model may turn elementary-level lessons into an extremely theoretical, boring and non-effective process. In this context, research in mathematics elementary education in Mexico indicates the need to analyze alternative pedagogic practices and to find different ways to make mathematics education in early ages less difficult and more attractive. Constructivist theory can provide an alternative for developing pedagogic proposals. The objectives of this research were: (1) develop a computational platform to support the traditional Mexican method of education with practical mathematics problems simulated as part of the daily world environment and to increase the level of students' social involvement through direct collaboration, and (2) analyze how this computational tool affects student motivation, collaboration and discussion. An exploratory case study concerning dimensions of mathematics problem-solving using computer simulations was conducted with 6–8 year old elementary school children. After a theoretical class the children were involved in solving a series of verbal problems, using our computational platform. Sixty third-grade children participated in this case study and data were collected from their responses to questions and interviews in order to explore attitudes toward learning mathematics and assess self-efficacy in this area. The results obtained in this research indicate that the integration of computational tools into conventional method courses provides elements to improve student motivation, collaboration and discussion based on their own exploratory experiences. These results can assist other education programs to incorporate positive attitudes and their own knowledge creation from a constructivist approach using technology.     

高校计算机基础教学改革的实践与探索

由于计算机技术的快速发展、中小学信息技术必修课的不断深入以及学生之间所存在的个体差异,迫切需要高校计算机基础教育改革关注学生现状,以便有的放矢地对计算机文化基础教学中的教学内容、教学方法、考核评价等方面进行实践和探索。我们通过对新入学大学生计算机知识背景的调查,大胆深入地开展了试点教学工作,取得了一些经验,进一步明确了计算机基础教育的培养目标。     

浅谈现阶段如何实现高中信息技术的学科价值

现阶段信息技术课程在高中学校的现状不容乐观,在很多学校以及教育主管部门都不被重视,学生把这门课当成了“休闲课”,而高中信息技术教师更是戏谑地把自己称作“多员化”教师。如何充分展现学科设置的意义,实现教师们的职业价值？一直是悬在所有信息技术教师心头的一片疑云！2003年,教育部颁布了《高中信息技术标准》,提出了提高信息素养,培养信息时代的合格公民等五个基本理念,而信息素养的培养在其中尤为重要。结合现在的教学形势,信息技术的教学除了要配合学业水平考试完成既定的知识教授以外,本学科的核心价值还是要定位于对学生的信息素养的培养上,通过教师不断提高自身的综合素质,彰显学科魅力,帮助学生树立正确的信息意识,提升学生的信息应用能力。     

Perceptions of teachers regarding the implementation of the internet in education

This paper aims to examine how much teachers are interested in using the Internet and how much they are trained to use the Internet in teaching and in their personal development, as well as to examine the perceptions of teachers regarding the implementation of the Internet in education. The study included 143 primary and secondary school teachers. The variables of this study were the type of school, work experience and profession. In order to assess the perception the teachers have regarding the use of the Internet in education, a five-point Likert scale intended for teachers was designed. The scale consisted of 45 claims and is intended for determining teachers’ attitudes regarding the implementation of the Internet in education. The results of the research show that teachers are interested in using the Internet in education.     

From geometrical figures to definitional Rigour: Teachers’ analysis of teaching units mediated through van Hiele's theory

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The present study reports on curriculum design implemented in eight parallel classes of high school, with students aged 14–15, by means of work‐sheets dealing with properties of the principal plane geometric figures. Van Hiele's theory was used to facilitate teachers’ discussion of student performances on work‐sheets in order to enhance their didactical awareness. We hypothesize that van Hiele's theory is a proper means to provide encouragement and support for teachers in rethinking their teaching goals and practices. This environment enables teachers to manage their students’ transition from the perception of a figure to its definition. In this paper, we will recount a teachers’ discussion as it unfolded in a school‐university work group. The analysis of students’ work on work‐sheets interweaves with an analysis of the teaching actions that foster the process of understanding definitions.     

案例教学法在计算机应用基础实验课程中的应用

针对计算机应用基础实验课程教学特点,提出根据课程实验的要求分层次设计合适的应用案例,增强学生的学习兴趣。探讨案例教学法实施过程中如何加强实验环节辅导,提高学生的主动性和积极性,提高案例教学实施效果。通过课堂、阶段以及学期三级考核体系的建立,促进学生认真学习,为圆满完成实验课程的教学任务提供保障。     

小议初中历史教学如何信息化

作为一名E时代的初中历史教师,加上新一轮课程改革,运用信息化教育,多媒体教学有其无可比拟的优势,具体到课堂教学中在新课导入、重难点处理、建构知识框架等方面都能发挥重要作用为教师提供了丰富多样的教学资料,有利于教师突破教学难点,使历史教学在内容和方法上也出现新取向,更易激起学生的学习兴趣,更易培养学生的历史思维。在运用多媒体课件时,也要努力做到:分析教学内容,确定教学目标,创设教学情境,组织协作活动,确定教学要素关系,完成教学过程活动,从而充分发挥多媒体信息技术与历史学科的整合的优势     

基于Apriori 数据挖掘算法的应用与实践

精准教育从诞生之初就受限于技术发展缓慢,随着信息技术的大力发展,教学管理系统,学生自主学习APP系统,基于微信学习平台的广泛应用,促使数学课程教育方面数据快速增长,使得学生的学习的行为,过程,状态,练习结果,成绩等成为可以被信息技术自动抓取的数据存在,这样使得获取精准教学的测量数据更为便捷和有效。首先分析了数学课程教学活动中存在的问题,然后对信息化教学模型构建进行了分析。以大数据中Apriori算法为主要思想,设计了基于学生数学学习效果提示和老师教学效果预测功能的数据挖掘系统,实现了对可能学习效果不理想的学生和可能教学方向不精准的老师的及早提示,同时可避免学生教师过度重复已掌握很好的知识,精准定位每位学生薄弱环节并加以改进,既可减轻师生负担,又可提高教学效果。