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Improving schools’ setting and climate: what role for the National Operative Programme? Some empirical insights from a Learning Analytics perspective 改善学校环境和气氛:国家执行方案的作用是什么?从学习分析角度的一些经验见解

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Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.20368/1971-8829/1135063

Rosalba Manna, Samuele Calzone, Rocco Palumbo

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Learning distributed algorithms by programming robots 通过编程机器人学习分布式算法

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Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society Pub Date : 2019-06-16 DOI: 10.20368/1971-8829/1625

F. Luccio

{"title":"Learning distributed algorithms by programming robots","authors":"F. Luccio","doi":"10.20368/1971-8829/1625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20368/1971-8829/1625","url":null,"abstract":"The learning process of theoretical concepts such as the model of a distributed environment and different distributed algorithms together with their execution and correctness requires time and is often considered by students a hard and non-challenging issue. In this paper we suggest adopting a more practical approach based on real implementations of distributed algorithms with the help of robots. A learning-by-doing approach can, in our opinion, help students acquiring a deeper knowledge of the model and of the algorithms, and can also stimulate them, and let them improve their teamwork skills. In this paper, we present a specific case study of a practical project, run for two consecutive years at the University Ca Foscari of Venice, inside an International Master of Computer Science course of Advanced Algorithms. The students for their final exam had to work in groups and their task was to design and implement a distributed algorithm to solve an assigned problem, using a Lego Mindstorm EV3 robot and a Makeblock mBot robot. In this paper, we discuss the positive effects of such a non-traditional teamwork approach by analyzing the teacher’s perception, the feasible impact on the students’ grades, and the students’ involvement and positive feeling, highlighted by the results of some questionnaires proposed at the beginning and the end of the projects. We finally discuss the limits of such an approach and possible improvements.","PeriodicalId":44748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80895804","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}

引用次数: 4

Social Robots in Educational Contexts: Developing an Application in Enactive Didactics 教育情境下的社交机器人:在行动教学法中的应用

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Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society Pub Date : 2019-06-16 DOI: 10.20368/1971-8829/1633

H. Lehmann, P. Rossi

{"title":"Social Robots in Educational Contexts: Developing an Application in Enactive Didactics","authors":"H. Lehmann, P. Rossi","doi":"10.20368/1971-8829/1633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20368/1971-8829/1633","url":null,"abstract":"Due to advancements in sensor and actuator technology robots are becoming more and more common in everyday life. Many of the areas in which they are introduced demand close physical and social contact. In the last ten years the use of robots has also increasingly spread to the field of didactics, starting with their use as tools in STEM education. With the advancement of social robotics, the use of robots in didactics has been extended also to tutoring situations in which these “socially aware” robots interact with mainly children in, for example, language learning classes. In this paper we will give a brief overview of how robots have been used in this kind of settings until now. As a result it will become transparent that the majority of applications are not grounded in didactic theory. Recognizing this shortcoming, we propose a theory driven approach to the use of educational robots, centred on the idea that the combination of enactive didactics and social robotics holds great promises for a variety of tutoring activities in educational contexts. After defining our “Enactive Robot Assisted Didactics” approach, we will give an outlook on how the use of humanoid robots can advance it. On this basis, at the end of the paper, we will describe a concrete, currently on-going implementation of this approach, which we are realizing with the use of Softbank Robotics’ Pepper robot during university lectures.","PeriodicalId":44748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society","volume":"14 1","pages":"27-41"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87848440","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}

引用次数: 6

How do pupils perceive educational robotics as a tool to improve their 21st century skills 学生如何看待教育机器人作为提高他们21世纪技能的工具

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Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society Pub Date : 2019-06-16 DOI: 10.20368/1971-8829/1628

Lucio Negrini, Christian Giang

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引用次数: 18

From Tinkering to Thinkering. Tinkering as Critical and Creative Thinking Enhancer 从修补到思考。修补作为批判性和创造性思维的增强者

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Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society Pub Date : 2019-06-16 DOI: 10.20368/1971-8829/1639

A. Poce, F. Amenduni, C. D. Medio

{"title":"From Tinkering to Thinkering. Tinkering as Critical and Creative Thinking Enhancer","authors":"A. Poce, F. Amenduni, C. D. Medio","doi":"10.20368/1971-8829/1639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20368/1971-8829/1639","url":null,"abstract":"The scientific community of educators has been more and more interested in Tinkering as an informal method to engage students with STEM subjects. Recent research has highlighted that Tinkering could be adopted not only to develop students’ scientific knowledge but also to support thinking processes such as Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving. Despite these assumptions, there is still a lack of research concerning the impact of Tinkering on the development of the 21st Century skills. That is why the Centre for Museum Studies - University of Roma Tre investigated the impact of Tinkering activities on Critical and Creative thinking skills enhancement in museum educators and teachers involved in STEM education. The Centre for Museum Studies conducted a pilot study with 30 participants at Citta della Scienza science centre (Naples), where museum educators and STEM teachers participated in a two-day workshop on collaborative Tinkering activities. During the workshop, participants were required to take two kinds of pre and post-tests with the aim of assessing Critical and Creative thinking skills development. On the one hand, in the Creative Thinking post-test participants showed significant improvement. On the other hand, despite there were no statistical differences concerning Critical Thinking assessment, a slight improvement in the post-test could be quantified. Follow up research is required, where it will be necessary to expand the sample of the study and use different measures for Critical and Creative Thinking assessment.","PeriodicalId":44748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society","volume":"137 1","pages":"101-112"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86279376","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}

引用次数: 3

Designing an effective digital learning environment for teaching English through literature: the learning experience of Bulgarian students 设计一个有效的数字学习环境，通过文学教学英语:保加利亚学生的学习经验

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Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society Pub Date : 2019-06-16 DOI: 10.20368/1971-8829/1592

M. Genova

引用次数: 6

Advanced Programming of Intelligent Social Robots 智能社交机器人的高级编程

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Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society Pub Date : 2019-06-16 DOI: 10.20368/1971-8829/1611

D. Malerba, A. Appice, P. Buono, G. Castellano, B. D. Carolis, M. D. Gemmis, Marco Polignano, Veronica Rossano, L. Rudd

引用次数: 3

Engaging parents Involvement in K – 12 Online Learning Settings: Are We Meeting the Needs of Underserved Students? 让家长参与K - 12在线学习设置:我们是否满足了服务不足学生的需求?

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Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society Pub Date : 2019-06-16 DOI: 10.20368/1971-8829/1563

Tim Chen, Rim C. Wanberg, Elizabeth T. Gouioa, Marcia J. S. Brown, J. Chen, Judy J. Kurt Kraiger

{"title":"Engaging parents Involvement in K – 12 Online Learning Settings: Are We Meeting the Needs of Underserved Students?","authors":"Tim Chen, Rim C. Wanberg, Elizabeth T. Gouioa, Marcia J. S. Brown, J. Chen, Judy J. Kurt Kraiger","doi":"10.20368/1971-8829/1563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20368/1971-8829/1563","url":null,"abstract":"Despite historical failure trends and mixed results on the effectiveness of online learning for all students, schools are witnessing the continual emergence of electronic instructional mediums. Research shows that students from educationally underserved homes experience less parent involvement (Hill and Tyson, 2009; Smith, 2006), and less academic gains than students from higher social economic families (Smith 2006). With the rapid infusion of online learning in traditional learning environments, some may perceive less need for parental guidance and intervention, however research shows that online learning may actually require parents to shoulder an increasing instructional role in their child’s learning (Borup, Graham, and Davies, 2013; Liu, Black, Algina, Cavanaugh, and Dawson, 2010). This quantitative study examines the relationships between online learning, socioeconomic status, and parental understanding and involvement in a diverse k – 12 district. Findings show that relationships exist between these variables, calling into question the development, implementation and evaluation of such instruction for populations already at risk.","PeriodicalId":44748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society","volume":"691 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85653369","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}

引用次数: 7

A proposal to act on Theory of Mind by applying robotics and virtual worlds with children with ASD 一项通过将机器人技术和虚拟世界应用于自闭症儿童的心理理论的建议

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Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society Pub Date : 2019-06-16 DOI: 10.20368/1971-8829/1632

V. Pennazio, L. Fedeli

引用次数: 2

Social Robots supporting the Inclusion of Unaccompanied Migrant Children: Teaching the Meaning of Culture-Related Gestures 支持无人陪伴的流动儿童融入社会的社交机器人:教授文化相关手势的意义

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Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society Pub Date : 2019-06-16 DOI: 10.20368/1971-8829/1636

B. D. Carolis, Giuseppe Palestra, Carla Della Penna, Marco Cianciotta, Antonio Cervelione

{"title":"Social Robots supporting the Inclusion of Unaccompanied Migrant Children: Teaching the Meaning of Culture-Related Gestures","authors":"B. D. Carolis, Giuseppe Palestra, Carla Della Penna, Marco Cianciotta, Antonio Cervelione","doi":"10.20368/1971-8829/1636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20368/1971-8829/1636","url":null,"abstract":"Social robots are being used successfully as educational technologies, playing roles of tutors and therapeutic assistants. In our research, we wish to explore how social robots can be used to tutor a second language to unaccompanied minor migrants and support their integration in a new culture. These young migrants are among those most at risk in the area of child and youth welfare. In this paper, we focus on a particular aspect of a second language teaching that concerns culture-related gestures that are important for supporting the social inclusion of these children. Since gesture learning relies on the understanding of the social situation, in which interaction and repeated practice are essential, social humanoid robots seem to be an adequate interaction mean since they can provide both examples of gesture executions and explanations about the meaning and the context in which the gesture should be used. Moreover, as in other assistive domains, social robots may be used to attract the children attention and support the social operator in establishing a contact with these children that very often, after the difficulties of the journey, do not trust adults. Results of a preliminary study show the efficacy of the proposed approach in learning gestures.","PeriodicalId":44748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society","volume":"108 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85691827","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}

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