An Approach Based on Simulation and Hypermedia Technology to a New Courseware in Mechanics of Machines

The aim of focusing conflicting objectives in modem teaching of mechanics of machines has stimulated the authors of this paper to develop specific software, lectures and laboratory activities with special emphasis on coordinate relations between the teacher's and students' tasks. As a result, a new scheme of courseware for mechanics of machines is proposed. A multi-year project has been developed to verify how a hypermedia system can be used in developing educational tools for this new courseware. An outline of these tools is presented.     

计算机普及与英文写作教学改革研究

随着计算机的普及和计算机代替传统书写工具在日常写作中的应用,如何使用计算机进行英文写作应该纳入英文写作的教学内容。标点符号问题、中文字符问题、自动纠错问题和排版问题是使用计算机进行英文写作中存在的突出问题,为解决这些问题提出相应的对策。     

Dynamics of Isolation and Integration in Ultra-Orthodox Schools: The Epistemological Implications of Using Rabbeim as Secular Studies Teachers

This article explores the complex dynamics that take place in ultra-Orthodox schools as they attempt to maintain a contra-acculturative stance toward secular knowledge, while providing students with the necessary tools to become functioning members of society. Using two case studies, this article looks at how the recent practice of using Rabbeim as secular studies instructors in elementary schools might reflect broader communal and cultural changes in ultra-Orthodox attitudes toward the integration of the secular and the religious.     

The role of automata and machine theory in school and college mathematics syllabuses

We propose the introduction of certain topics in the theory of machines and languages into school and college mathematics courses in place of the more usual discussions of groups and formal logic. We hold the belief that the theory of machines can be more easily motivated and is more obviously related to the real world than either of the above mentioned subjects, yet, it still provides an excellent framework in which to develop algebraic concepts and logical skills. We outline some examples of machines and languages and their interconnections suitable for such courses.     

论“身体技术延展”的辩证过程

技术的最早表现形式并不是简单工具,而是人的身体技术。技术的出现是为了补足身体的缺陷,是对身体技术的延展。工具的产生遵循了身体技术延展的理念,机器则与工具迥异,背离了这一理念。人类增强技术的出现是对身体技术延展理念的回归与发展,也证实了人的身体可以成为技术人工物。将人类增强技术纳入身体技术延展的辩证过程,是为了强调人类增强技术的可控性。     

关于高职数控技术与应用专业人才培养的思考

随着科学技术的高速发展和计算机技术，电子技术的广泛应用，使得机械制造的设备和工艺发生了深刻变化，普通机械逐渐被高效率，高精度的数控机械所代替，因此，积极培养数控加工技术人才成为当务之急，文中从高职数控专业深化教改教研，强化技能训练，培养数控技术人才，突出高职教育特色等方面阐述本人的看法和设想。     

Tools for reflection on the academic identities of doctoral students

In this paper, we explore the usefulness of three different approaches to facilitating reflexivity and a critical awareness of emerging academic identities for doctoral students. This paper stems from a longitudinal research project entitled The Next Generation of Social Scientists, which was conducted across three research-intensive British universities and based at the University of Oxford. The research examined how doctoral students in a range of social science disciplines develop (or do not develop) notions of ‘academic’ identity as they move along the doctoral trajectory and into academic positions. In what follows we describe how three different data collection tools – weekly logs, interviews and a card-sorting activity – were used to encourage doctoral students to consider the process of constructing academic identities more actively and self-reflectively. We then consider how the use of these tools at two workshops further revealed how they can be utilised by academic developers to explore the needs of doctoral students and improve the support in place for this student group.     

试析智能社会中两种智能的关系

机器代替人大量体力劳动时推动了人类迅速发展,机器代替人的大量脑力劳动时,是推动人类迅速发展,还是从此代替了人类的地位,本文仅从人机共同进化,协同发展角度试图阐明职能社会中人机关系,并尝试给读者打开一个遥望智能社会的窗口。     

Narratives and activity theory as reflective tools in action research

Narratives and activity theory are useful as socially constructed data collection tools that allow a researcher access to the social, cultural and historical meanings that research participants place on events in their lives. This case study shows how these tools were used to promote reflection within a cultural–historical activity theoretically shaped research project on multi-professional collaborative practice. The tools are shown to individually and jointly aid insight, understanding and action. The participants generated data through narratives and analysed the data with an activity theoretical framework. These were then interpreted as cultural historical artefacts by the researcher. The socially constructed paradigm within which they are situated, their participative use, and their creation of insight, understanding and action make them ideal as action research tools.     

Using Children's Picture Books as Tools to Facilitate Undergraduates' Learning

Abstract. The purpose of this article is to explore the use of children's picture book literature as a tool to teach undergraduate students. The research takes place in the context of an undergraduate educational psychology course that focuses on theories of learning and development. Students' written comments and scaled responses indicate that they view these books as effective tools for enhancing their learning.     

‘They won't do that; it's not macho enough’

PANDA reports are seen by government as important tools to help schools evaluate themselves, raise standards and compare their effectiveness with others.

The severe limitations of PANDAs are not sufficiently recognised. At best they provide very partial, limited evidence. They need to be cut down to size and kept in their place.     

冷库温度多点监测系统

MCS-51系列单片机构成温度检测系统。系统由8031单片机构成主机系统,采用常用的ADC0809芯片做A/D转换,由74LS138译码器做系统的地址译码电路,选用与51系列单片机配用的可编程并行接口8155做并行接口的扩展,驱动三位数码显示器LED。本系统只要求对采集后的数据转换为温度值显示、超越温度极限值时做红色闪烁显示。     

自动控制理论在机床中的应用

随着自动控制理论在机床中的应用,机床由常规机床变成了数控机床,产品零件形状变得更复杂、精度要求更高,产品更新更加频繁、生产周期更短,并实现了自动化、大功率和高精度、高速度、工艺复合化和功能集成化、可靠性等重大变革。     

Examining shifts in preservice teachers’ beliefs and attitudes toward writing instruction

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of integrating self-reflection, focused instruction, and field practice in a semester-long language arts course in order to shift early childhood preservice teachers’ (PSTs) beliefs and attitudes about writing instruction, as well as their development and planned use of tools for instruction. The findings revealed that a course focused primarily on preparing PSTs to teach writing can influence PSTs’ definitions of writing, the importance they place on writing instruction, their self-efficacy related to teaching writing, and their tools for instruction.     

Extending the pedagogy of mobility

Direct student experience of the real organism, object, place or environment is recognised by teachers as having powerful potential for high-quality learning. Mobile technologies offer a way for students to capture their authentic learning experiences, but rendering this rich experience into explicit and highly situated learning contexts for students remains an ongoing pedagogical challenge. After reviewing the changing nature of smart learning tools, several examples are explored to identify how they provide a novel learning context. Each example uses the integration of the smart device’s capabilities, such as the rapid capture of images and the juxtaposition of motion and static display. When comparing the incorporated tools of only a few years ago with the current tools available with the latest smart mobile devices, general principles can be generated to inform effective professional practice, specifically when teaching spatially dependent tasks, and in mobile collaborative learning environments.     

Implications of educational theory for the design of instructional multimedia

Interactive multimedia provides a useful vehicle to reconsider the place of educational theories in the design of interactive learning environments. This paper serves to address a number of such theories, especially those centred on student learning, and in particular, attempts to draw out the implications they present for designing effective instructional multimedia. It is argued that we need to develop coherency rather than divergency, in our theoretical perspectives so that we might optimise the development of new technologies in teaching and learning. This rationale is then used to advance one such perspective, based on the role of dynamic modelling tools.     

BENEATH THE SKIN: STATISTICS,TRUST, AND STATUS

Overreliance on statistics, and even faith in them—which Richard Smith in this essay calls a branch of “metricophilia”—is a common feature of research in education and in the social sciences more generally. Of course accurate statistics are important, but they often constitute essentially a powerful form of rhetoric. For purposes of analysis and understanding, they have their limitations. In particular they tend to tell us more about correlation than causality. The extended example Smith discusses here—The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett—shows that while statistics can be valuable guides to where further investigation needs to take place, such investigation needs the tools of other disciplines, such as philosophy and anthropology, if it is to discover matters of fundamental importance.     

Problem-centred Learning Using Computer Algebra Systems in the Engineering Curriculum

Engineering education at tertiary level is changing in order to reflect the need for an integrated approach to problem-based learning. Problem-solving techniques related to engineering applications have been used frequently to clarify difficult analytical concepts and theories. However, there is still a need to integrate various engineering disciplines by using different tools and approaches. The main objective of this paper is to present a problem-solving approach to analysis, synthesis and dynamics of mechanisms and machines using computer algebra systems. By using various analytical methods and the graphic capabilities of such mathematical software, it is possible to illustrate and implement, in a creative way, many areas including kinematic and dynamic analysis, vibration analysis and programming. Students generally considered these areas to be difficult.     

The Penultimate Teaching Machine

This paper discusses the possibility of building an electronic transducer to take the place of the existing teaching machines. The tasks that can be performed by such a machine as well as the advantages and risks involved are discussed.