J. Oakes, Martin Lipton, Lauren Anderson, Jamy Stillman
{"title":"School Culture","authors":"J. Oakes, Martin Lipton, Lauren Anderson, Jamy Stillman","doi":"10.4324/9781351263443-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351263443-12","url":null,"abstract":"As small schools become more autonomous, they create new identities and establish unique school cultures. We also believe that the school's culture is inextricably linked to classroom culture. This section of resources discusses the meaning of organizational culture and explores the challenge of building school culture. You'll find tools for assessing your existing culture, developing group norms, and generating effective intergenerational dialogue. The resources explore various approaches to the issue of organizational culture, including techniques from the business world, the connection to physical spaces, and the use of traditions. The concept of culture refers to a group's shared beliefs, customs, and behavior. A school's culture includes the obvious elements of schedules, curriculum, demographics, and policies, as well as the social interactions that occur within those structures and give a school its look and feel as \" friendly, \" \" elite, \" \" competitive, \" \" inclusive, \" and so on. Just as culture is critical to understanding the dynamics behind any thriving community, organization, or business, the daily realities and deep structure of school life hold the key to educational success. Reforms that strive for educational excellence are likely to fail unless they are meaningfully linked to the school's unique culture. For small schools newly born from a large high school, creating a unique school culture will be an important component of success. According to small schools researcher Mary Ann Raywid: If you want to get the benefit of small, then the kids have to affiliate with the unit —the small school—in order to bring it off. Unless teachers can create their own school climate—unless the kids can see some difference when they leave their own part of the building—then they are not going to identify with it. And if they don't identify, you have lost the battle. Unless the kids bond with the teachers (and the students as well) then they aren't going to feel that they are really involved with or a part of this process and won't buy the schools values, and therefore schools won't work. 1 The school profiles, beginning on page 148, reveal that school culture is variously defined by: ⇒ Rituals ⇒ Expectations ⇒ Relationships ⇒ Curricular focus ⇒ Extra-curricular activities ⇒ Decision-making processes ⇒ Graduation requirements And any other aspect of \" the way we do things here. \" Because these aspects of culture are primarily formed through teacher-student interactions, classroom culture is …","PeriodicalId":123956,"journal":{"name":"Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126025632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobile Learning","authors":"S. Wilden","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-10576-1_300443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10576-1_300443","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":123956,"journal":{"name":"Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121215625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Virtual Learning Environment","authors":"K. Tandel, R. Dhimar","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-10576-1_300715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10576-1_300715","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":123956,"journal":{"name":"Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125002819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assistive Technology","authors":"留美 種村, 徹 長尾, 和惠 野田, 二朗 相良","doi":"10.2496/HBFR.36.384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2496/HBFR.36.384","url":null,"abstract":"Assistive Technology, is, in a nutshell, technology for persons with disabilities. For example, there is a piece of software called \"JAWS\" that is a screen-reader, which literally reads the contents of the screen aloud for blind individuals. There are many other software packages and hardware devices we work with and attempt to provide to departments, students, and even faculty and staff to increase the accessibility to this institution for everyone.","PeriodicalId":123956,"journal":{"name":"Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123729493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Computer-Based Instruction","authors":"Eric Wangila","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-10576-1_300107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10576-1_300107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":123956,"journal":{"name":"Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134285343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Internet-Based Assessment","authors":"J. Mogle","doi":"10.1002/9781118521373.WBEAA172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118521373.WBEAA172","url":null,"abstract":"Internet-based assessments became a part of research methodology in the 1990s as the Internet moved into mainstream use. Originally met with skepticism, there is evidence that data collected with this methodology are valid, and these methods are now used to collect data in a variety of studies. The advantages of Internet-based assessments include reduced burden for both participants and researchers, greater disclosure from individuals, and better access to hard-to-reach populations including isolated older adults. As technology advances, these types of assessments are evolving beyond personal computers to deployment using mobile devices. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Keywords: \u0000 \u0000assessment; \u0000Internet; \u0000technology","PeriodicalId":123956,"journal":{"name":"Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130549406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Networking","authors":"Daniel Gaetan-Beltran","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-10576-1_300590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10576-1_300590","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":123956,"journal":{"name":"Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116422457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interdisciplinary Science Teaching","authors":"Charlene M. Czerniak, Carla Johnson","doi":"10.4324/9780203097267.CH20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203097267.CH20","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":123956,"journal":{"name":"Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122184241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deep Learning","authors":"中山 浩太郎","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-10576-1_300164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10576-1_300164","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":123956,"journal":{"name":"Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121898197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiple Documents Literacy","authors":"Helge I. Strømsø, Ivar Bråten","doi":"10.1093/OBO/9780199756810-0092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199756810-0092","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":123956,"journal":{"name":"Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130087584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}