在数字化校园中如何培养高职学生的信息素养

阐述数字化校园在培养学生信息素养方面发挥的积极作用,分析高职学生信息素养的现状和成因,在此基础上提出培养高职学生信息素养的策略。     

Critical Race Studies in Education: Examining a Decade of Research on U.S. Schools

In this article, the authors critically synthesize how Critical Race Theory (CRT) as an emerging field of inquiry has been used as a tool of critique and analysis in K-12 education research. The authors point out that CRT has been used as a framework for examining: persistent racial inequities in education, qualitative research methods, pedagogy and practice, the schooling experiences of marginalized students of color, and the efficacy of race-conscious education policy. The authors explore how these studies have changed the nature of education research and stress the need for further research that critically interrogates race and racism in education.Marvin Lynn is an Assistant Professor of Department of Curriculum & Instruction in University of Maryland, College Park. He completed his B.S., at DePaul University, Chicago, IL, M.A. at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY and Ph.D. at University of California, Los Angeles. He has published articles in the area of Critical Race Theory and education and critical race pedagogy. He has also written a number of articles that explore the work and lives of Black male teachers.Laurence Parker is Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies in University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He completed his B.A., at Earlham College, Richmond, IN, M.A. and Ph.D. in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His current research examines Critical Race Theory and its connection to educational research, policy and practice in the k-12 and post-secondary settings. His research also examines social justice perspectives in educational administration, leadership and policy, particularly with respect to race and social class     

后真相时代美国数字媒介素养教育研究

随着数字媒介的崛起与媒介形态的快速更替,美国传统媒介素养教育举步维艰。为迎接后真相时代的严峻挑战,一场由政府、媒介素养教育组织、教育工作者、高校、新闻界等多元主体共同参与的数字媒介素养教育全面启动。数字媒介素养教育可以帮助年轻人识别数字媒介的不利影响,帮助他们养成探究的习惯和表达技巧,将他们培养成为批判性的思想者、有效的沟通者和积极的公民。当前中国同样备受谣言、假消息的困扰,公众的媒介素养亟待提高。借鉴美国数字媒介素养教育的经验,应尽快将数字媒介素养教育纳入正规教育体系,制定数字媒介素养教育的整体教学规划,鼓励与发展数字媒介素养社会组织,高度重视家庭数字媒介素养教育的作用。     

简析SAT批判性阅读模式对语文思维素养考查的启示

在新一轮的中学课程改革的时代语境下,语文教育工作者致力于构建以学科素养为纲的语文课程内容体系,从而真正实现学生思维的发展与提升,并最终实现"立德树人"这一根本任务。这一重大问题是需要多角度做出思考和探索的,也需要相应教学评价的革新,语文高考首当其冲。本文试图以和语文高考具有一定可比性的美国SAT考试作为观察切入口,针对其中的批判性阅读考察模式探究对语文学科核心素养中"思维发展与提升"中针对批判性思维考查的一些可借鉴意义。     

A Qualitative Evaluation of a Project to Enhance Pupils' Emotional Literacy Through a Student Assistance Programme

Recent policy highlights schools' responsibility for safeguarding children and promoting their health and welfare and addressing their emotional and behavioural needs. In doing so, it is anticipated that their emotional literacy and social competence might be enhanced. Recognizing that an increasing number of children exhibit emotional and behavioural difficulties affecting their learning, Wrexham Local Education Authority implemented a Student Assistance Programme (SAP). SAP offers primary prevention and early intervention to pupils who exhibit high-risk behaviours and supports those whose circumstances affect their ability to engage with others at home and school, through participation in support groups. A study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of SAP. The study aimed to illuminate changes in student behaviour as described by themselves and facilitators, and to identify any wider implications of the SAP in terms of its effects on peers, teachers and family members. Using an interactive, responsive evaluation design, 11 focus group interviews were conducted involving 21 facilitators, seven head-teachers and 64 children. Data were analysed using qualitative content analysis. The findings revealed benefits, challenges and issues of sustainability. This paper discusses the findings of the study and the implications for future sustainability.     

Reflections on Equipping Candidates to Teach Literacy in Culturally Diverse Schools

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This essay reflects on ways to equip teacher candidates so they are not only prepared to answer tough questions, but are educated for the linguistic and literacy challenges of today’s classrooms. We recognize that with an ever-growing majority minority population, it is time to change the teacher preparation system, and to support current teachers and the preparation of future teachers for the field; these changes need to be soon and are imperative.     

The Use of Newspaper Articles as a Tool to Develop Critical Thinking in Science Classes

The aim of this research is to identify the difficulties experienced by secondary school students (aged 15–16) with the critical reading of newspaper articles with scientific content. Two newspaper critical reading activities in relation to the study of various scientific contents were designed and carried out in two schools (61 students in total), one with a student population from a medium to high social and economic bracket and the other with students from a medium to low social and economic bracket. These activities were designed taking into account the phases of the reading process: before, during and after reading. In order to analyse the difficulties ‘Elements of science critical reading’ were identified on the basis of the ‘Elements of reasoning’ of Paul and Elder and the categories proposed by Bartz C.R.I.T.I.C. questionnaire and a scale was drawn up. The results show that the activities designed were useful in helping students to read critically. We also rated very positively the instrument created to assess the students' answers: the scale based on the performance indicators of Paul and Elder. This instrument enabled us to detect the aspects of critical thinking where students have the most difficulties: identifying the writer's purpose and looking for evidence in a text. It was also shown that the stance taken in the articles also had an influence on the results.     

Using the Blended Learning Approach in a Quantitative Literacy Course

The efforts to improve the quantitative reasoning (quantitative literacy) skills of college students in the United States have been gaining momentum in recent years. At the same time, the blended learning approach to course delivery has gained in popularity, promising better learning with flexible modalities and pace. This paper presents the results of an exploratory study that compares student learning outcomes and student attitudes over several semesters of blended versus traditional delivery in the upper-division quantitative literacy course at Point Loma Nazarene University.     

A Two-Pronged Approach to Promote Food Science in U.S. High Schools

ABSTRACT:  The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), the IFT Foundation, and Discovery Education partnered to create and distribute food science information to science department and school counselor chairs in all 18000 U.S. high schools in January 2006. Two multimedia "kits" were generated for teachers and counselors, each consisting of DVDs with food science technical or career information, respectively, and a call to action to visit a newly created web microsite. To support and promote the program, IFT initiated a "Food Science Ambassador" program, where IFT member food scientists complete a brief survey indicating their interest in speaking with or visiting teachers, students, and counselors to discuss the field of food science or give a demonstration. IFT, through the career guidance committee, exhibited and conducted workshops at the National Science Teachers Association regional and national conferences, and coordinated a "Train the Trainer" program at the IFT Annual Meeting in Florida for local area science teachers and Food Science Ambassadors. Survey results from kit recipients were overwhelmingly positive, with over 97% of the respondents indicating that they intend to use the materials. The microsite developed for this program received over 18000 unique visits in the first 6 mo, and traffic to the IFT Teacher Resources web page increased. In the first 6 mo of its availability, nearly 250 IFT members have signed up to be Food Science Ambassadors. Long-term metrics for success are in place and continue to be monitored.     

Web-Based Professional Development Model to Enhance Teaching of Strategies for Online Academic Research in Middle School

High-quality professional development is needed to prepare teachers to help students learn how to conduct online academic research and meet Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts. This study created and evaluated a Web-based professional development program with five instructional modules designed to prepare middle-school teachers to teach their students nine strategies for conducting academic research online. The online professional development program was specifically created to help teachers implement the previously developed online SOAR Student Toolkit curriculum with all students in inclusive classrooms. Results of a 2015–2016 pilot study conducted with 13 teachers and 477 students in sixth to eighth grades indicated that most teachers perceived the professional development program to be of high quality and relevant in helping them teach online research skills to their students. Students significantly improved online research skills after learning from trained teachers (27 percentage points improvement, from 18% at pretest to 45% at posttest).     

Digital storytelling in adult education and family literacy: a case study from rural Ireland

Previous research on digital storytelling (DST) has focused chiefly on children and youth, but we know little about how it is used in non-formal adult education. This article analyzes a DST class in rural Ireland, which was organized by a family literacy program and offered for parents at an elementary school. Data sources included fieldnotes, interviews, and digital stories by the parents who finished the class (n?=?3). Janks's interdependence model of critical literacy is used to analyze how the class incorporated power, access, diversity, and design. The class did not engage in ideology critique or analyze the origins or consequences of dominant technologies, languages, and literacies (i.e., investigate power as domination). However, the class did provide access to technology knowledge and skills; affirm parents’ diverse knowledge, languages, life experiences, and identities; and equip participants to design and disseminate their digital stories. The study highlights possibilities for using multimodal composition in family learning and adult education.     

台湾小學數位教學對教師教育之啟示

数住教学已被關注,更可視為南教育改革的新動能,傅统舆资讯科技混搭的教學模式,正在台湾中小学的教室裏運作,混合式學習将合成為教室裏的新風貌。本研究以台湾某小争為例,探究台灣数位教学在小學的實施施现况舆運作模式,藉以提供封教師教育機構的啟示。（1）教师教育機構需建置完善的數住教學環境。（2）籌组教師專業社群,型塑数位教學願景舆共識。（3）提昇大学教授的敷位運用能力。（4）培用合一的数位教学课程。（5）推動敷位教学之相關研究。     

Digital Literacies Go to School: A Cross-Case Analysis of the Literacy Practices Used in a Classroom-Based Social Network Site

The authors, working from a new literacies studies perspective, suggest that educators can better teach their students if they develop their own knowledge of the purposes, types, and language conventions students use in their informal out-of-school literacy practices. The purpose of this study was to identify the literacy practices used in a classroom-based social network site and determine how these practices reflect digital literacies. By connecting differences in the literacy practices of three fifth-grade girls to the instructional moves made by classroom teachers, the authors were able to identify and describe how classroom teachers unintentionally marginalized the kinds of digital literacies that are valued in the larger society. Findings point to the importance of creating online identities for establishing relationships in a social networking site and a need for teachers to model ways to shift language use when engaging in different writing contexts.     

Promotion of Reading and Early Literacy Skills in Schools: a comparison of three European countries

This article gives a short overview based on the EU High Level Group of Experts on Literacy (HLWG) report to address issues and challenges in Europe on improving literacy competencies in schools. Furthermore, an analysis is conducted focusing on the promotion of reading and early literacy skills in schools taking into account psychological and institutional learning conditions in three countries (Denmark, Germany, and France) with different outcomes in PIRLS 2011 (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study). Country comparison is conducted using multiple groups – multilevel structural equation modelling (MG-MSEM). An important finding is that policy action taken in order to evaluate and improve school effectiveness in each country must address particular needs of its educational system. Suggestions for improving reading achievement in schools are derived from the analysis.     

数字经济的反垄断:近期美国反垄断领域争论的启示

近年来数字经济的发展给反垄断和竞争政策带来了巨大的挑战和争论,其中以发生在美国的围绕数字经济反垄断问题展开的"大争论"最引人注目。此次"大争论"以新布兰迪斯派对数字产业巨头和现行反垄断体系的批判为出发点,围绕着新经济的反垄断进行了全方位、系统性的再思考。本文从经济、法律、政治三个侧面梳理了此次美国反垄断"大争论",并对新布兰迪斯派的思想做了回溯和剖析。本文认为,新布兰迪斯派不具备成为数字经济反垄断主流学派的条件,争论背后的自由主义与干预主义之争仍将持续。但是此次"大争论"以及新布兰迪斯派背后的经济学思想,给我国反垄断事业的发展和整个反垄断事业的进步,都带来了宝贵的思考和启示。     

社区共建：英国改造薄弱学校的新举措

在此用“社区共建”一词来概括近年英国政府改造义务教育阶段薄弱学校的重要举措——“教育行动区”计划的内涵。它指的是积极吸纳社会各界全方位参与学校教育。文章在对这一举措的背景、具体措施、典型案例和成绩进行介绍的基础上,提出关于改造薄弱学校的相关思考。     

科学素养:由理念到实践--美国化学课程改革透视

科学素养(Scientific Literacy)是当代科学教育的核心概念.本文以美国科学教育改革为背景,介绍了美国化学会开发的旨在提高科学素养的化学课程.文章重点分析了"社会中的化学"(ChemCom)中的科学素养要素,最后对科学素养与课程发展的关系进行了讨论.     

Development of a Metric to Test Group Differences in Ecological Knowledge as One Component of Environmental Literacy

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Environmental literacy has been defined in numerous ways and attempts have been made to measure how environmentally literate people are. Many attempts to measure literacy have instead measured people's knowledge about pollution and their attitudes toward the environment. According to many environmental education experts, knowledge and attitudes are important components of environmental literacy, especially if the goal of environmental education is to change behavior. However, the experts also indicate that, to change an individual's behavior, knowledge about the environment must be associated with environmental sensitivity, personal beliefs, and decisionmaking and problem-solving skills. The research presented in this article contributes to environmental literacy research by offering a tested, valid survey instrument to measure ecological knowledge—one component of environmental literacy. In this article, we provide an example of how this instrument can be applied by comparing knowledge levels among diverse groups of Ohio citizens.